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  <h2>lyricli (lrc)</h2>
  <p>Command line tool that shows lyrics for your currently playing song in the command line</p>
  <p>
    → <a href="https://git.sr.ht/~rbdr/lyricli">view source</a>.
  </p>
  <p>You may need to allow the plugin to run in "Privacy &amp; Security" in your system settings.</p>
  <h2>Install from Homebrew</h2>
  <p>You can install using homebrew. For direct binaries see below.</p>
  <pre>brew tap rbdr/apps git@git.sr.ht:~rbdr/homebrew-apps</pre>
  <pre>brew install lyricli</pre>
  <h2>Download</h2>
  <ul>
    <li>
      <p>
        <a href="/files/lyricli/lrc-universal.tar.gz">lrc (universal)</a>:
          Latest (2.0.1), for both intel and apple silicon macs (larger binary)
      </p>
    </li>
    <li>
      <p>
        <a href="/files/lyricli/lrc-arm64.tar.gz">lrc (arm64)</a>:
          Latest (2.0.1), only for apple silicon macs
      </p>
    </li>
    <li>
      <p>
        <a href="/files/lyricli/lrc-x86_64.tar.gz">lrc (x86_64)</a>:
          Latest (2.0.1), only for intel macs
      </p>
    </li>
  </ul>
  <h2>Usage</h2>
  <p>Running without arguments will try to detect your current song in apple music or spotify</p>
  <p>You can run it with artist name and song name to fetch it manually</p>
  <pre>lrc artist_name song_name</pre>
  <p>You can view help with the h / help flag</p>
  <pre>lrc -h</pre>
  <pre>lrc --help</pre>
  <h2>Managing Sources</h2>
  <p>By default it comes with spotify and apple music sources enabled, you can disable sources using:</p>
  <pre>lrc -d (source_name)</pre>
  <pre>lrc --disable-source (source_name)</pre>
  <p>You can enable the source again using</p>
  <pre>lrc -e (source_name)</pre>
  <pre>lrc --enable-source (source_name)</pre>
  <p>You can list all the sources with:</p>
  <pre>lrc -l</pre>
  <pre>lrc --list-sources</pre>
  <h2>All Versions</h2>
  <ul>
    <li>
      <p>
        lrc 2.0.1
          (<a href="/files/lyricli/lrc-2.0.1-universal.tar.gz">universal</a>)
          (<a href="/files/lyricli/lrc-2.0.1-arm64.tar.gz">arm64</a>)
          (<a href="/files/lyricli/lrc-2.0.1-x86_64.tar.gz">x86_64</a>):
          Fixes a segfault when there are n1 results, and incorrect behavior when results are not songs.
      </p>
    </li>
    <li>
      <p>
        lrc 2.0.0
          (<a href="/files/lyricli/lrc-2.0.0-universal.tar.gz">universal</a>)
          (<a href="/files/lyricli/lrc-2.0.0-arm64.tar.gz">arm64</a>)
          (<a href="/files/lyricli/lrc-2.0.0-x86_64.tar.gz">x86_64</a>):
          Rebuilt to use swift 5.8 and work with the genius API instead of defunct LyricsWiki
      </p>
    </li>
  </ul>
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