🎼 lyricy

A command line lyrics utility tool which search and add lyrics to your offline songs.

Why lyricy ?

We can use spotDL/spotify-downloader to download our spotify playlist and songs along with album art and metadata. But it does not add the lyrics of the songs in song metadata. lyricy search for the lyrics of the song add to song metadata.

you can use Retro music player for android to listen the offline local songs with synced lyrics.

Browser Extension (YouTube Music Extension)

Important

We also include a gorgeous Brave/Chrome Browser Extension inside the extension directory that displays these time-synchronized lyrics as a beautiful > macOS-inspired Liquid Glass overlay on YouTube Music:

• Live scroll synchronization & active line highlight.
• Floating overlay panels, docked sidebar panels, and an immersive fullscreen player mode.
• Floating always-on-top Picture-in-Picture window.
• For setup instructions, see the Extension README.

Features

• Used as a Python package and Command Line Interface (CLI)
• Easy to add lyrics to your offline songs
• Preview of lyrics
• Synced lyrics with lrc time tags
• Lyrics without lrc tags
• Save lyrics as lrc file
• Add your own lyrics or downloaded lyrics to songs

Usage

• Using as a CLI tool
• Using as a python package

CLI

Installation

Using pip

pip install lyricy

Windows user download this executable file

Usage: python -m lyricy [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

  A command line lyrics utility tool which search and add lyrics to your
  offline songs.

Options:
  --help  Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  add     Search and add lyrics to given TRACK.
  remove  Remove lyrics from given TRACK.
  search  Search for lyrics for given track or query
  show    Show the lyrics of TRACK if available.

• Searching for lyrics using your queries
• Searching for lyrics for your track
• Adding lyrics
• Remove lyrics
• Changing lyrics provider
• Show lyrics
• Downloading lrc file
• Add lrc file to song

Searching for lyrics using your queries

Usage: python -m lyricy search [OPTIONS]

  Search for lyrics for given track or query

Options:
  -t, --track PATH       file path of track
  -d, --disable-preview  Disable the preview
  -l, --only-lyrics      Show Lyrics Only (without LRC tag)
  -s, --save TEXT        Save file as .lrc
  -q, --query TEXT       search query of track name
  -p, --provider TEXT    Lyrics provider name [rc] or [mo]
  --help                 Show this message and exit.

lyricy search --query "jolly yo gymkanna"

Searching for lyrics for your track

Track must have album metadata title

lyricy search --track 'Imagine Dragons - Believer.mp3'

After searching it print list of lyrics, enter the index number lyrics to get the full lyrics

Adding lyrics

Adding lyrics to track metadata to get synced lyrics

Usage: python -m lyricy add [OPTIONS] TRACK

  Search and add lyrics to given TRACK.

  TRACK can be the filepath of a track or a directory path.

Options:
  -q, --query TEXT       search for this query instead of track name
  -d, --disable-preview  Disable the preview
  --show                 Print the lyrics and ask for confirmation
  --lrc PATH             Lyrics file to add on track
  -p, --provider TEXT    Lyrics provider name: [lr] (LRCLIB), [bl] (BetterLyrics), [rc] (RcLyricsBand), or [mo] (Megalobiz)
  -r, --recursive        Recursively process directories
  -a, --auto             Auto-match and save lyrics without prompting
  --help                 Show this message and exit.

lyricy add 'Imagine Dragons - Believer.mp3'

Select the preferred lyrics for the song to add it.

If the track does not have metadata title or has an irrelevant filename, you can use the --query option to override this:

lyricy add 'some-track.mp3' --query "vikram title track"

Flagship Automation (Bulk Tagging & Auto-Match)

You can recursively tag an entire directory of tracks and automatically match/save lyrics using the default smart fallback chain without any interactive prompting:

lyricy add --recursive --auto ./my_music_directory/

Changing lyrics provider

By default, the lyrics provider uses a smart fallback chain starting with LRCLIB (our flagship premium provider). You can manually lock it to a specific provider:

• lr for https://lrclib.net (Default, lightning-fast, high-quality synchronized/plain lyrics)
• bl for BetterLyrics (Direct timed XML TTML parsing)
• rc for https://rclyricsband.com/ (Scraped synchronized lyrics)
• mo for https://www.megalobiz.com/ (Scraped synchronized lyrics)

lyricy add 'some-track.mp3' --query "vikram title track" --provider bl

lyricy search --query "karka kark" --provider lr

Remove lyrics

Usage: lyricy remove [OPTIONS] TRACK

  Remove lyrics from given TRACK.

  TRACK is the filepath of track.

Options:
  --help  Show this message and exit.

lyricy remove 'Imagine Dragons - Believer.mp3'

Show lyrics

Usage: lyricy show [OPTIONS] TRACK

  Show the lyrics of TRACK if available.

  TRACK is the filepath of track.

Options:
  -l, --only-lyrics  Show Lyrics Only (without LRC tag)
  --help             Show this message and exit.

lyricy show 'Imagine Dragons - Believer.mp31

Downloading lrc file

lyricy search --query "new york" --save "new_york"

This search and ask for the prompt, select any song it will download and save as lrc file

Add lrc file to song

lyricy add track.mp3 --lrc track.lrc

It will add the lyrics to song metadata

Python Package

Install

Using pip

pip install lyricy

Simple Usage

>>> from lyricy import Lyricy

>>> l = Lyricy()
>>> results = l.search("karka karka")
>>> selected_lyrics = results[0]
>>> selected_lyrics.fetch()

>>> selected_lyrics.lyrics
>>> selected_lyrics.lyrics_without_lrc_tags

Saving and adding lyrics to track

>>> selected_lyrics.save("lyrics.lrc")
>>> selected_lyrics.add_to_track("path_to_track.mp3")

Using Other Providers

By default, the provider is LRCLIB (Providers.LRCLIB), but you can specify other providers like Providers.BETTERLYRICS, Providers.RCLYRICSBAND, or Providers.MEGALOBIZ.

>>> from lyricy import Lyricy, Providers

>>> l = Lyricy()
>>> results = l.search("vikram", provider=Providers.BETTERLYRICS)
>>> selected_lyrics = results[0]
>>> selected_lyrics.fetch()

>>> selected_lyrics.lyrics
>>> selected_lyrics.lyrics_without_lrc_tags

Dev Setup

• Clone repo
• Install package requirements

pip install -r requirements

• Install dev requiremnts

pip install black flake8 pytest

• Linting

black
flake8 -v

• Test

pytest -v

Lyrics Providers

• LRCLIB (https://lrclib.net) - Lightning-fast default provider.
• BetterLyrics (https://lyrics-api.boidu.dev) - Timed XML TTML.
• RcLyricsBand (https://rclyricsband.com/) - Scraped synced lyrics.
• Megalobiz (https://www.megalobiz.com/) - Scraped synced lyrics.

Contributions

Contributions are Welcome. Feel free to report bugs in issue and fix some bugs by creating pull requests. Comments, Suggestions, Improvements and Enhancements are always welcome.