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I'm looking for a CLI way to fetch the lyrics of a song from the Internet and embed them as an ID3v2 tag into a music file (“Artist - Title.mp3”). There are half a dozen tools for doing this on Linux but how about Windows?
Clacers
Posted 2018-06-05T09:36:11.247
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Some free packages I know of :
MP3tag
The standard field for lyrics is UNSYNCEDLYRICS.
Please note, that you have to prefix a language identifier in front of the lyrics, or "xxx" if you want the lyrics to show in any language. Also you have to add two "bars": xxx||My lyrics.
EasyTAG
Said to have command-line support, but you would have to download it and see,
as the online documentation is too brief.
eyeD3
This is a Python tool, for users of Python.
An example script can be found here.
It also has a command-line support, where the syntax for the parameter is
--add-lyrics=LYRICS_FILE[:DESCRIPTION[:LANG]].
But to include the file's contents would need under Linux
(I admit to not knowing the Windows syntax):
eyeD3 --lyrics=eng:these_lyrics:"$(cat lyrics_file.txt)" some_file.mp3
harrymc
Posted 2018-06-05T09:36:11.247
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Thanks, eyeD3 has more than sufficient CLI support! But what about the other half of my question: How to fetch the lyrics from LyricWiki for example? – Clacers – 2018-06-05T13:28:52.657
A google search for "eyeD3 LyricWiki" found this example among 3,340 other results.
– harrymc – 2018-06-05T17:44:49.637
Bash now runs on Windows. Would Linux tools work under that? – TRiG – 2018-06-05T09:47:07.850