AudioShake Launches Real-Time Music Removal SDK for Broadcasters, Sports, Film & TV

Music is central to storytelling across film, TV, sports, and live events—but it can quickly derail production when licenses expire, commercial tracks bleed into a stream, or background music overwhelms dialogue. For production teams, fixing these issues means delayed workflows, compliance risks, and hours of manual audio repair.

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Today, AudioShake is launching its real-time Music Removal SDK, designed to help broadcasters, sports leagues, and production teams tackle these challenges head-on. The SDK can detect and remove music in both real-time broadcasts and post-production workflows. Even in complex, noisy mixes, it cleanly separates music from dialogue, sound effects, and ambient noise—keeping workflows fast, compliant, and professional.

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Controlling the different elements within a stream or piece of content–from music and dialogue to background effects–can quickly transform previously laborious processes like:

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• Preventing Copyright Fees and Takedowns: From gaming streams to sports broadcasts, licensed music can trigger fines, takedowns, or blocked content. Often, these clips feature footage where music is mixed into the original audio. AudioShake’s partners, including top professional sports leagues, use its music removal technology to scrub archival or social content, detect where music is present, remove it, and avoid future copyright infringement.
• Enhancing Dialogue and Speech Clarity: In live commentary and interviews, background music or ambient noise can sometimes drown out key audio. With AudioShake, editors can isolate dialogue and lower or remove background music, allowing audiences to hear every word clearly without slowing production.
• Scaling Legacy or Global Content: Legacy TV, film, and catalog content sometimes contains unlicensed or region-restricted music. With AudioShake, editors can remove the music while preserving the original dialogue and sound effects, making it easy to sync new music for re-releases or global distribution. This enables teams to reach new audiences safely, unlock additional revenue streams, and extend the life of their content.

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Refreshing Legacy TV Content for Global Distribution

Award-winning music and sound company Jaywalker Music, founded by composer Raney Shockne and the acclaimed production company Fifth Season, uses AudioShake to help studios and production companies modernize classic TV catalogs with expired or limited music rights. Using AudioShake’s AI-powered separation technology, Jaywalker isolates and removes legacy music without access to original stems—preserving dialogue, laughter, and sound effects while seamlessly integrating newly composed cues. This process has enabled the replacement of more than 200 expired tracks for broadcast-ready distribution, unlocking new revenue and licensing opportunities for beloved television series.

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Localizing and Repurposing Viral Video Content

Mark Rober’s CrunchLabs, creators of some of the internet’s most-watched science and engineering videos, uses AudioShake’s music removal and sound separation tools to localize, remix, and clear content for global audiences. With AudioShake, CrunchLabs can isolate dialogue, remove or replace commercial music, and prepare sponsor-ready edits—all while maintaining the humor, reactions, and sound design that define their brand. These capabilities allow the team to repurpose archival videos, expand internationally, and produce copyright-compliant content at scale without compromising quality or speed.

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Sound Separation Available for Live and Post-Production Environments

The real advantage of AudioShake’s SDK is speed. Broadcasters, sports leagues, and content creators can manage audio issues as they happen, whether in live events or post-production workflows. Making compliance or clean-up proactive and giving more control over how content sounds. 

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AudioShake’s Music Removal technology is available on our enterprise platform AudioShake Live, via our API, or our SDK.  The AudioShake SDK is available for iOS/MacOS, Android, Windows, and Linux. Visit developer.audioshake.ai to get started. We can’t wait to hear what you create.

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