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Command line tool that shows lyrics for your currently playing song in the terminal, supports spotify and apple music on macos, and most linux music players.
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You can install using homebrew. For direct binaries see below.
$ brew tap rbdr/apps git@git.sr.ht:~rbdr/homebrew-apps $ brew install lyricli
You can find pre-built packages for linux @ build.r.bdr.sh. There you can
find a `.tar.gz` that includes only the binary, or `.rpm` and `.deb`
distributions for fedora and debian that include a manpage.
Binaries are provided for x86_64 and aarch64.
Unstable releases are built directly from the main branch, while tagged
versions have their own release and can be considered more stable.
lyricli pre-built releases @ gemini
lyricli pre-built releases @ https
In order to build this project, you'll need a genius client token. See the genius api docs for more information.
Make sure you have rust and Make installed. Clone the repository, and run:
% make -e profile=release
Then copy the file somewhere in your PATH
% cp ./target/release/lyricli /usr/local/lyricli
Running without arguments will try to detect your current song in apple music or spotify
$ lrc
You can run it with artist name and song name to fetch it manually
$ lrc artist_name song_name
You can view help with the h / help flag
$ lrc -h $ lrc --help
If you install using the rpm and deb you should be able to call help with man
man lrc
By default it comes with spotify and apple music sources enabled, you can disable sources using:
$ lrc -d (source_name) $ lrc --disable-source (source_name)
You can enable the source again using
$ lrc -e (source_name) $ lrc --enable-source (source_name)
You can list all the sources with:
$ lrc -l $ lrc --list-sources
You can download binaries of older releases, macos only.
2.0.1
2.0.0