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

Detected	Rev	Change	Commit
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
Sep 24, 2023 2:36am	2	VERSION_BUMP	8bbe4c34