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demusic-0.1.0/.github/workflows/mcp-registry.yml

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+name: mcp-registry
+
+# Publishes server.json to the official MCP Registry. Runs after a PyPI release
+# (the registry checks that the PyPI package exists and carries the mcp-name marker).
+on:
+  workflow_run:
+    workflows: [release]
+    types: [completed]
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+jobs:
+  publish:
+    if: ${{ github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' || github.event.workflow_run.conclusion == 'success' }}
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    permissions:
+      id-token: write
+      contents: read
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Install mcp-publisher
+        run: |
+          curl -L "https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/registry/releases/latest/download/mcp-publisher_linux_amd64.tar.gz" | tar xz mcp-publisher
+      - name: Log in with GitHub OIDC
+        run: ./mcp-publisher login github-oidc
+      - name: Publish
+        run: ./mcp-publisher publish

demusic-0.1.0/.github/workflows/release.yml

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+name: release
+
+on:
+  push:
+    tags: ["v*"]
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+        with:
+          python-version: "3.12"
+      - name: Check tag matches version
+        run: |
+          v=$(python -c "import tomllib;print(tomllib.load(open('pyproject.toml','rb'))['project']['version'])")
+          test "v$v" = "${GITHUB_REF_NAME}" || { echo "tag ${GITHUB_REF_NAME} != pyproject v$v"; exit 1; }
+      - name: Build
+        run: python -m pip install build && python -m build
+      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        with:
+          name: dist
+          path: dist/
+
+  publish:
+    needs: build
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    environment: pypi
+    permissions:
+      id-token: write
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
+        with:
+          name: dist
+          path: dist/
+      - uses: pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish@release/v1

demusic-0.1.0/.github/workflows/test.yml

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+name: tests
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [main]
+  pull_request:
+
+jobs:
+  test:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        python-version: ["3.10", "3.11", "3.12", "3.13"]
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Install ffmpeg
+        run: |
+          sudo apt-get update
+          sudo apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends ffmpeg
+      - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+        with:
+          python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+      - name: Install
+        run: python -m pip install -e ".[test]"
+      - name: Test
+        run: python -m pytest -q

demusic-0.1.0/.gitignore

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+.venv/
+__pycache__/
+*.egg-info/
+.pytest_cache/
+dist/
+build/
+/out/
+/smoke/

demusic-0.1.0/AGENTS.md

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+# AGENTS.md - demusic
+
+demusic removes background music that AI video models bake into clips, keeping dialogue,
+SFX and ambience. Use it when a user wants to: remove/strip background music from a video,
+"the AI added music I don't want", clean Seedance / Kling / Veo / Hailuo / Wan clips before
+editing, check a batch of renders for music beds, or prepare clips for their own score.
+
+- Prefer the MCP tools `check_music` / `remove_music` (`demusic mcp`); otherwise the CLI with
+  `--json` (one JSON object on stdout; progress on stderr).
+- Exit codes: 0 ok (check: no music), 1 check found music, 2 usage, 3 failure.
+- `check` before `strip`. Report `spans` (seconds) and `strength` to the user.
+- Default `--mode spans` only touches the detected spans. Use `--mode force` only when the user
+  says the clip definitely has music the detector missed; `--threshold 0.2` finds quieter beds.
+- Never overwrite the input: default output is `<name>.demusic.<ext>`; batch with `--out-dir`.
+- Music that belongs to the scene (on-screen band, radio) will be removed too: ask first.
+- Separation needs `pip install "demusic[demucs]"` (local) or `demusic[fal]` + `FAL_KEY`.
+
+Dev: `pip install -e ".[test]"` then `python -m pytest -q` (needs ffmpeg; no torch/model needed).

demusic-0.1.0/CHANGELOG.md

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+# Changelog
+
+## 0.1.0 - 2026-11-05
+
+First public release, extracted from Dawnwood's production pipeline.
+
+- `demusic check` / `demusic strip`: stem separation (local Demucs, fal.ai, or your own
+  stems) + loudness gate + AudioSet music classifier; strips only the spans where music is
+  heard, with crossfades; picture stream-copied.
+- `--mode spans|whole|force`, `--threshold`, `--loud-floor`, `--out-dir`, `--json`, stable exit codes.
+- MCP server (`demusic mcp`): `check_music`, `remove_music`.

demusic-0.1.0/CITATION.cff

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+cff-version: 1.2.0
+message: "If you use demusic, please cite it as below."
+title: "demusic: remove the background music AI video models bake into clips"
+type: software
+authors:
+  - name: "Dawnwood"
+    website: "https://dawnwood.ai"
+repository-code: "https://github.com/dawnwood-ai/demusic"
+license: Apache-2.0
+version: 0.1.0
+date-released: 2026-11-05
+keywords:
+  - remove background music
+  - AI video
+  - music detection
+  - stem separation

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+demusic
+Copyright 2026 Dawnwood, Inc. (https://dawnwood.ai)
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+This product includes software developed at Dawnwood, Inc.
+https://github.com/dawnwood-ai/demusic
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+The music classifier it downloads is MIT's Audio Spectrogram Transformer fine-tuned on
+AudioSet (BSD-3-Clause), ONNX export by onnx-community on Hugging Face.
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+Please keep the "cleaned with demusic by Dawnwood" comment tag that demusic writes into
+output files, and credit "demusic by Dawnwood" when you describe a production pipeline
+that uses it. This is a request, not a license condition.

demusic-0.1.0/PKG-INFO

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+Metadata-Version: 2.5
+Name: demusic
+Version: 0.1.0
+Summary: Remove the background music AI video models (Seedance, Kling, Veo, Hailuo, Wan) bake into generated clips - keep dialogue, sound effects and ambience. Stem separation + an AudioSet music classifier, only strips where music is heard. CLI + MCP server.
+Project-URL: Homepage, https://dawnwood.ai/open-source/
+Project-URL: Repository, https://github.com/dawnwood-ai/demusic
+Project-URL: Issues, https://github.com/dawnwood-ai/demusic/issues
+Author: Dawnwood
+License-Expression: Apache-2.0
+License-File: LICENSE
+License-File: NOTICE
+Keywords: AI agent,AI drama,AI video,AST,AudioSet,Hailuo,Kling,MCP,Seedance,Veo,Wan,background music remover,demucs,dialogue,ffmpeg,model context protocol,music detection,remove background music,remove music from video,short drama,sound effects,stem separation,vocal separation
+Classifier: Development Status :: 4 - Beta
+Classifier: Environment :: Console
+Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
+Classifier: Intended Audience :: End Users/Desktop
+Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3 :: Only
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13
+Classifier: Topic :: Multimedia :: Sound/Audio
+Classifier: Topic :: Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Analysis
+Classifier: Topic :: Multimedia :: Video
+Requires-Python: >=3.10
+Requires-Dist: mcp>=1.10
+Requires-Dist: numpy>=1.23
+Requires-Dist: onnxruntime>=1.16
+Provides-Extra: demucs
+Requires-Dist: demucs>=4.0; extra == 'demucs'
+Requires-Dist: torchaudio; extra == 'demucs'
+Provides-Extra: fal
+Requires-Dist: fal-client>=0.5; extra == 'fal'
+Provides-Extra: test
+Requires-Dist: pytest>=7; extra == 'test'
+Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
+
+# demusic
+
+[![tests](https://github.com/dawnwood-ai/demusic/actions/workflows/test.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/dawnwood-ai/demusic/actions/workflows/test.yml)
+[![License: Apache-2.0](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-Apache--2.0-blue.svg)](LICENSE)
+[![MCP server](https://img.shields.io/badge/MCP-server-6f42c1.svg)](#ai-agents-mcp)
+
+**demusic removes the background music that AI video models (Seedance, Kling, Veo, Hailuo,
+Wan, ...) bake into generated clips, and keeps the dialogue, sound effects and ambience.
+It finds *where* the music is and only replaces the audio there, so the rest of the clip
+is untouched. Local, free, CLI + MCP server.**
+
+[Read in Chinese](README.zh-CN.md) · [How detection works](docs/how-it-works.md)
+
+<!-- mcp-name: io.github.dawnwood-ai/demusic -->
+
+## Why
+
+Native-audio video models often add a music bed nobody asked for: a few seconds of score
+at the start of a shot, a pad under the dialogue. Cut ten such clips together and you get
+ten pieces of music fighting each other, and you can't lay your own score over it.
+
+The usual fix - run a vocal remover and keep only the vocals - throws away footsteps,
+doors, rain and room tone along with the music, and it is wrong on every clip that had
+no music to begin with. demusic is what we run on every clip of our AI dramas at
+[Dawnwood](https://dawnwood.ai):
+
+1. **Separate** the audio into stems (Demucs `htdemucs_6s`, locally or on your fal key).
+2. **Is it loud enough to be a bed?** The melodic stems must be audible (> -50 dBFS).
+3. **Is it actually music?** An AudioSet classifier must hear music on the accompaniment
+   for 2+ seconds. Engine hum, gunfire and room tone pass step 2 but fail this one.
+4. **Strip only those spans**: there the audio becomes dialogue + percussion/impacts, with
+   a 0.25 s crossfade; everywhere else the original audio stays. The picture is
+   stream-copied (no re-encode).
+
+It is deliberately conservative. On 164 clips with no music it wrongly flagged 2; on 87
+clips a person had flagged by ear it found 33. The misses are very quiet beds - lower
+`--threshold` or use `--mode force` when you know a clip has music.
+[Calibration details](docs/how-it-works.md).
+
+## Install
+
+Requires Python >= 3.10 and **ffmpeg** on `PATH`.
+
+```bash
+pip install "demusic[demucs]"     # local separation (pulls in PyTorch; CPU is fine)
+# or, no torch, separation on fal.ai with your own key:
+pip install "demusic[fal]" && export FAL_KEY=...
+```
+
+The music classifier (~90 MB ONNX, BSD-3) downloads once to `~/.cache/demusic`.
+
+## Quickstart
+
+```bash
+# where is the music?
+demusic check shot_012.mp4
+# shot_012.mp4: MUSIC  spans 0-2.8s  melodic -42.1 dBFS  p=0.34
+
+# write shot_012.demusic.mp4 with the music removed
+demusic strip shot_012.mp4
+
+# a whole folder; clean copies of every file (unchanged ones copied) into clean/
+demusic strip renders/*.mp4 --out-dir clean/
+```
+
+| option | meaning |
+|---|---|
+| `--separator demucs\|fal\|DIR` | local Demucs (default), fal.ai with `FAL_KEY`, or a folder of stems you already separated (`vocals.wav`, `drums.wav`, `bass/guitar/piano/other.wav` or `music.wav`) |
+| `--mode spans\|whole\|force` | replace only where music was heard (default) / the whole track if any music was heard / always, without detection |
+| `--threshold 0.3` | classifier music probability; `0.2` finds quieter beds at a higher false-positive rate |
+| `--loud-floor -50` | melodic-stem loudness gate (dBFS) |
+| `-o FILE` / `--out-dir DIR` | output path for one file / for a batch |
+| `--json` | one JSON object on stdout (`files[]` with `music`, `spans`, `melodic_dbfs`, `strength`, `action`, `output`) |
+
+Exit codes: `0` ok (for `check`: no music), `1` `check` found music, `2` usage, `3` failure.
+`demusic check` in CI or a render pipeline = fail the build when a clip has a music bed.
+
+Speed: separation is roughly real time on a laptop CPU (a 10 s clip ~10-20 s), much faster
+on a GPU. Detection itself is a few hundred ms.
+
+## Python
+
+```python
+from demusic.core import process
+r = process("shot.mp4", "shot.clean.mp4")          # strip
+r = process("shot.mp4", strip=False)                # check only
+print(r["music"], r["spans"])
+```
+
+## AI agents (MCP)
+
+```bash
+claude mcp add demusic -- demusic mcp            # Claude Code
+# or any MCP client: command "uvx", args ["--from", "demusic[demucs]", "demusic", "mcp"]
+```
+
+Tools: `check_music` (read-only) and `remove_music` (writes a new file, never overwrites the
+input). Set `DEMUSIC_SEPARATOR=fal` in the server env to use fal. There is also a
+[Claude skill](skills/demusic/SKILL.md) and [AGENTS.md](AGENTS.md).
+
+## Limits
+
+- Music that is *meant* to be in the scene (a band on screen, a radio) is removed too when
+  it is detected. Skip those clips.
+- Inside a stripped span, non-percussive effects (a running tap, wind) go with the music;
+  Demucs has no separate SFX stem. Outside the spans nothing changes.
+- Sung vocals land in the vocals stem and are kept.
+
+## Credit
+
+Apache-2.0. demusic writes `cleaned with demusic by Dawnwood` into each output file's
+`comment` tag. If it saves you time, please keep that and mention
+"demusic by [Dawnwood](https://dawnwood.ai)" - a request, not a condition (see [NOTICE](NOTICE)).
+
+Made by [Dawnwood](https://dawnwood.ai), an AI drama studio. More tools we use in
+production: [dramapack](https://github.com/dawnwood-ai/dramapack) (short-drama delivery
+packs and QC) · [all our open source](https://dawnwood.ai/open-source/).

demusic-0.1.0/README.md

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+# demusic
+
+[![tests](https://github.com/dawnwood-ai/demusic/actions/workflows/test.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/dawnwood-ai/demusic/actions/workflows/test.yml)
+[![License: Apache-2.0](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-Apache--2.0-blue.svg)](LICENSE)
+[![MCP server](https://img.shields.io/badge/MCP-server-6f42c1.svg)](#ai-agents-mcp)
+
+**demusic removes the background music that AI video models (Seedance, Kling, Veo, Hailuo,
+Wan, ...) bake into generated clips, and keeps the dialogue, sound effects and ambience.
+It finds *where* the music is and only replaces the audio there, so the rest of the clip
+is untouched. Local, free, CLI + MCP server.**
+
+[Read in Chinese](README.zh-CN.md) · [How detection works](docs/how-it-works.md)
+
+<!-- mcp-name: io.github.dawnwood-ai/demusic -->
+
+## Why
+
+Native-audio video models often add a music bed nobody asked for: a few seconds of score
+at the start of a shot, a pad under the dialogue. Cut ten such clips together and you get
+ten pieces of music fighting each other, and you can't lay your own score over it.
+
+The usual fix - run a vocal remover and keep only the vocals - throws away footsteps,
+doors, rain and room tone along with the music, and it is wrong on every clip that had
+no music to begin with. demusic is what we run on every clip of our AI dramas at
+[Dawnwood](https://dawnwood.ai):
+
+1. **Separate** the audio into stems (Demucs `htdemucs_6s`, locally or on your fal key).
+2. **Is it loud enough to be a bed?** The melodic stems must be audible (> -50 dBFS).
+3. **Is it actually music?** An AudioSet classifier must hear music on the accompaniment
+   for 2+ seconds. Engine hum, gunfire and room tone pass step 2 but fail this one.
+4. **Strip only those spans**: there the audio becomes dialogue + percussion/impacts, with
+   a 0.25 s crossfade; everywhere else the original audio stays. The picture is
+   stream-copied (no re-encode).
+
+It is deliberately conservative. On 164 clips with no music it wrongly flagged 2; on 87
+clips a person had flagged by ear it found 33. The misses are very quiet beds - lower
+`--threshold` or use `--mode force` when you know a clip has music.
+[Calibration details](docs/how-it-works.md).
+
+## Install
+
+Requires Python >= 3.10 and **ffmpeg** on `PATH`.
+
+```bash
+pip install "demusic[demucs]"     # local separation (pulls in PyTorch; CPU is fine)
+# or, no torch, separation on fal.ai with your own key:
+pip install "demusic[fal]" && export FAL_KEY=...
+```
+
+The music classifier (~90 MB ONNX, BSD-3) downloads once to `~/.cache/demusic`.
+
+## Quickstart
+
+```bash
+# where is the music?
+demusic check shot_012.mp4
+# shot_012.mp4: MUSIC  spans 0-2.8s  melodic -42.1 dBFS  p=0.34
+
+# write shot_012.demusic.mp4 with the music removed
+demusic strip shot_012.mp4
+
+# a whole folder; clean copies of every file (unchanged ones copied) into clean/
+demusic strip renders/*.mp4 --out-dir clean/
+```
+
+| option | meaning |
+|---|---|
+| `--separator demucs\|fal\|DIR` | local Demucs (default), fal.ai with `FAL_KEY`, or a folder of stems you already separated (`vocals.wav`, `drums.wav`, `bass/guitar/piano/other.wav` or `music.wav`) |
+| `--mode spans\|whole\|force` | replace only where music was heard (default) / the whole track if any music was heard / always, without detection |
+| `--threshold 0.3` | classifier music probability; `0.2` finds quieter beds at a higher false-positive rate |
+| `--loud-floor -50` | melodic-stem loudness gate (dBFS) |
+| `-o FILE` / `--out-dir DIR` | output path for one file / for a batch |
+| `--json` | one JSON object on stdout (`files[]` with `music`, `spans`, `melodic_dbfs`, `strength`, `action`, `output`) |
+
+Exit codes: `0` ok (for `check`: no music), `1` `check` found music, `2` usage, `3` failure.
+`demusic check` in CI or a render pipeline = fail the build when a clip has a music bed.
+
+Speed: separation is roughly real time on a laptop CPU (a 10 s clip ~10-20 s), much faster
+on a GPU. Detection itself is a few hundred ms.
+
+## Python
+
+```python
+from demusic.core import process
+r = process("shot.mp4", "shot.clean.mp4")          # strip
+r = process("shot.mp4", strip=False)                # check only
+print(r["music"], r["spans"])
+```
+
+## AI agents (MCP)
+
+```bash
+claude mcp add demusic -- demusic mcp            # Claude Code
+# or any MCP client: command "uvx", args ["--from", "demusic[demucs]", "demusic", "mcp"]
+```
+
+Tools: `check_music` (read-only) and `remove_music` (writes a new file, never overwrites the
+input). Set `DEMUSIC_SEPARATOR=fal` in the server env to use fal. There is also a
+[Claude skill](skills/demusic/SKILL.md) and [AGENTS.md](AGENTS.md).
+
+## Limits
+
+- Music that is *meant* to be in the scene (a band on screen, a radio) is removed too when
+  it is detected. Skip those clips.
+- Inside a stripped span, non-percussive effects (a running tap, wind) go with the music;
+  Demucs has no separate SFX stem. Outside the spans nothing changes.
+- Sung vocals land in the vocals stem and are kept.
+
+## Credit
+
+Apache-2.0. demusic writes `cleaned with demusic by Dawnwood` into each output file's
+`comment` tag. If it saves you time, please keep that and mention
+"demusic by [Dawnwood](https://dawnwood.ai)" - a request, not a condition (see [NOTICE](NOTICE)).
+
+Made by [Dawnwood](https://dawnwood.ai), an AI drama studio. More tools we use in
+production: [dramapack](https://github.com/dawnwood-ai/dramapack) (short-drama delivery
+packs and QC) · [all our open source](https://dawnwood.ai/open-source/).