What you see after a clean
A list of the songs AudD found in the original, each with the time ranges where it plays. Click a time range to jump there and listen. Every song gets one of three results:
Not detected after cleaning. AudD couldn’t find the song in the cleaned audio, even with Ambience at full, the export that keeps the most room sound.
Set Ambience to 0 to remove. The song is still detectable when the room sound is kept at full, but not in the dialogue alone. The button next to it turns Ambience down to 0, which never uses minutes. Export again with Ambience at 0; AudD didn’t detect the song in that version.
Still detectable in the dialogue. Even the dialogue track alone still carries enough of the song to match. Separation has the hardest time when someone is singing or the music is louder than the voices. Cut or replace that part in your editor.
If AudD recognizes nothing, the check says “No known songs found in the original.” That means AudD didn’t know any of the music, not that there wasn’t any.
Uploading to YouTube
YouTube Studio checks for copyright claims during upload, in the Checks step, before you publish. YouTube says the results aren’t final, but it’s YouTube’s own check, and it’s free. Upload the cleaned video as private, wait for the check, and publish when it comes back clear.
MusicWipe’s check tells you which songs were in the original and whether cleaning got them, while you can still change Ambience and export again.
How it works
- When a full clean starts, MusicWipe sends the whole original audio to AudD. It’s scanned from start to finish in 12-second pieces, not sampled, and AudD returns each known song with the times it plays.
- After the music is removed, only the stretches where a song was found, plus 2 seconds either side, go back to AudD, this time from the cleaned audio with Ambience at full. For any song still found there, the same stretches are checked in the dialogue alone.
The check runs on full cleans only, never on previews. “Check for copyrighted songs automatically” in Settings is on by default with Pro and runs it after every full clean. If you turn it off, open a cleaned video and choose Check for songs. That works for 24 hours after cleaning, while the video’s audio is still on our servers.
The test behind these numbers
Before we turned the check on, we ran its code on the test clips we use for the separation model: 25 commercial songs, each mixed 3 to 12 decibels under dialogue and sound effects, one 24-second excerpt per song.
AudD named the right song in 16 of the 25 original clips. For the other 9 it found nothing or named the wrong song. We then checked the cleaned audio of those 16, with Ambience at full, and AudD detected none of them.
That is a small test, run by us, with 24-second clips. It doesn’t show what YouTube or any other platform would do.
What the check can’t tell you
- Whether a platform will claim the video. YouTube’s Content ID, Instagram, TikTok and others use their own matching against their own catalogs. AudD not finding a song doesn’t mean they won’t.
- Whether there’s a song AudD doesn’t know. A song it doesn’t recognize doesn’t appear in the list at all, and in our test that was 9 of 25.