AutoLyricize

Automatically find and embed song lyrics.

This script scans a specified directory for audio files, and for each file, finds lyrics from Lyricsify.com or Genius.com (as a fallback), and saves them to the file's metadata.

Perfect for use with Spotiflyer, Retro Music Player, and Syncthing to reduce your dependence on music streaming services.

Setup

1. Install Python.
2. Install dependencies by running pip install -r requirements.txt.
3. Copy template.env to a new file called .env and add a valid Genius.com access token to it (or set the appropriate environment variable some other way).
   • If no token is provided, only Lyricsify.com will be used as a data source.
   • Other useful fields and instructions can be found in the same file.

Usage

Run python main.py "path/to/folder". useful tip for noobs: you can drag a folder into the terminal window to paste its full path 👍

Limitations

• Inexact search uses Genius's search system, which loves to give you results that have absolutely nothing to do with the original track. If you use inexact search with instrumental tracks or albums, you are going to get garbage data.
• Only works with mp3 files due to a limitation in the eyed3 library.
• Only supports one lyrics field in the metadata! The script will DELETE all the others. If you have multiple lyrics fields for different languages, kiss them goodbye.

This script took a little under 3 hours to run for my 5000-song library.