🎵 Verse

A simple command-line tool that fetches lyrics for your music collection and prints a random lyric line — like the classic fortune command, but for your songs.

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✨ Features

• 🔍 Automatically fetches lyrics for your local music directory (optional).
• 🎲 Picks a random lyric line and prints it to the console.
• 🎤 Optional flags to show artist and/or song title (currently parses filename, metadata support coming soon).

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📦 Installation

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/rexept/verse.git
cd verse

Dependencies required:

Taglib (C), Mutagen(Python)

Install with your local package manager.

To use the lyrics downloader:

Edit these lines in the python script to your desired directories (defaults shown):

MUSIC_DIR = os.path.expanduser("~/music")
LYRICS_DIR = os.path.expanduser("~/.lyrics")

Compile verse locally

make LYRICS_DIR=<your lyrics directory here, defaults to $HOME/.lyrics>

Or install globally

sudo make LYRICS_DIR=<your lyrics directory here, defaults to $HOME/.lyrics> install

🚀 Usage

verse [FLAGS]

Basic Example

verse --show-artist

Output:

The Beatles
And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.

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Thanks to termshot for the amazing command screenshot!