eli5: How can music producers make a part of a song be heard on only one speaker?

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I’ve realised this with some songs eg Hate me by Ellie Goulding and juice wrld, when she says switch sides, the audio on one side seems to have less sound or something.

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A digital music file has two data streams, one for each side – this is called stereo. (if it only has a single data stream for both sides it’s called mono). You’re basically playing two songs at the same time, one on each speaker and for most of the time they’re almost exactly the same.

What you described is as simple as muting one side of the data stream, so only the other one keeps playing.

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