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I don't want the app to be launching any existing music player and displaying lyrics I just want the lyrics files to be downloaded.I also want the lyrics files to be of .lrc extension and currently I'm using ubuntu 14.10. Please help.

Sapnesh Naik
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  • Do you know that the lyrics are available for the music files, in lrc or another format? Do you know where? – Volker Siegel Nov 22 '14 at 08:58
  • yes. .lrc is the usual format for lyrics files. I have a mobile player which supports .lrc files.so I can also use these files in my mobile. – Sapnesh Naik Nov 22 '14 at 09:07

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The programs that work with lyrics and other music metadata can make use of a library named libglyr.
There is a program providing a command line interface to it's features, glyrc. I could not see which lyrics file formats are used in the man page, but it seems to be worth a try.
(Possibly it is somethinig like the standard minimal UI for libglyr library development - then, it may be cryptic, but very complete.)

From man glyrc:

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        glyrc - search engine for music-related metadata

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               glyrc GETTER [options]
        where GETTER must be one of:
        · cover
        · lyrics
        · artistphoto
        · artistbio
        · similarartists
        · similarsongs
        · albumreview
        · albumlist
        · tags
        [...]
Volker Siegel
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The best choice from the commandline is certainly glyrc. Below is an example of typical usage for downloading and writing a lyric file:

glyrc lyrics --artist "Pink Floyd" \
             --album "Dark Side of the Moon" \
             --title "Money" \
             --write "money.lrc"

As far as I know glyrc requires the individual songname or title to download in this way so some scripting will be required to download a set of lyrics...

andrew.46
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