glyr ☆
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Description:
Music related metadata search engine with command-line interface and C API
Type: Formula  |  Latest Version: 1.0.10@0  |  Tracked Since: Dec 8, 2025
Links: Homepage  |  formulae.brew.sh
Category: Multimedia
Tags: music metadata lyrics library cli
Install: brew install glyr
About:
Glyr is a command-line tool and C library designed to fetch and organize music-related metadata from various online sources. It specializes in retrieving lyrics, cover art, artist biographies, and album reviews. Its core value lies in providing a unified API for developers to integrate rich music metadata into their applications.
Key Features:
  • Fetches lyrics, cover art, artist bios, and reviews
  • Command-line interface for easy scripting
  • Extensible C library (libglyr) for integration
  • Automatic database caching to reduce API calls
  • Supports multiple metadata sources
Use Cases:
  • Building music players that require offline metadata storage
  • Scripting batch downloads of lyrics or album art for a music library
  • Developing applications that need to display song information without relying on proprietary APIs
Alternatives:
  • beets – Beets is primarily a music library manager and tagger, whereas Glyr focuses strictly on fetching metadata sources.
  • last.fm – Last.fm requires an API key and focuses on scrobbling, while Glyr aggregates metadata for local storage.
Version History
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Dec 8, 2025 6:23pm 3 VERSION_BUMP 4947d3f4
Sep 15, 2025 5:58am 3 VERSION_BUMP 1c7e412a
Dec 21, 2024 1:39am 2 VERSION_BUMP 3bdeb245
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