Song-splitting app achieves the impossible in 40 seconds
If you're wondering why anyone would want to pull a perfectly good song apart, I have a simple answer.
I'm a bass player. If I want to learn John McVie's bass line from Fleetwood Mac's Dreams, I'd rather hear that bass part on its own. And once I've learned it, I want the exact opposite: everything except the bass, so I can step into McVie's shoes and play along with the rest of the band.
Until quite recently, neither was particularly easy. For most of recorded music's history, the final mix really was final. Once the bass, drums, guitars and vocals had been mixed down to stereo, getting the original ingredients back out was rather like trying to recover the RAW file from a JPEG.
Pleasingly, that's no longer the case.
AudioPrism is a US$79.99 Windows application (currently $59.99) that promises to pull finished recordings apart on your own...
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