-f --from String¶

Providers from where to get metadata. Refer to glyrc —list for a full list

-w --write Path¶

Write metadata to the dir d, or filename d, special values stdout, stderr and null are supported.

Certain escapes are escaped inside the filename in the form :X:, where X may be one of:

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type : The getter used in this query (e.g. cover)

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artist : Artist - as passed by -a

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album : Album - as passed by -b

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title : Title - as passed by -t

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size : Size in bytes

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format : The image format or `txt' for textitems

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source : The source URL of this item

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prov : The Provider of this item

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cksum : a md5sum of the data

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rating : (Usually 0)

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duration : (Only for tracks) Duration in seconds

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number : An index incremented with each item (starting with 1)

The default format is
':artist::album::title::type::number:.:format:' Strings containing `/' are replaced with `|' automatically, so —write ':artist:' for AC/DC will result in AC|DC

-n --number Integer¶

Download max. n items. Amount of actual downloaded items may be less.

-l --lang String¶

Language settings. Used by a few getters to deliever localized data. Given in ISO 639-1 codes like `de'

-o --only-lang¶

Only use providers that offer language specific data, this only applies for text items.

-z --fuzzyness Integer¶

Set threshold for level of Levenshtein algorithm.

-q --qsratio Float¶

How to weight quality/speed; 1.0 = full quality, 0.0 = full speed.

-x --plugmax Integer¶

Maximum number od download a plugin may deliever. Use to make results more vary.

-v --verbosity Integer¶

Set verbosity from 0 to 4. See online README for details.

-p --parallel Integer¶

Define the number of downloads that may be performed in parallel.

-u --useragent String¶

The useragent to use during HTTP requests

-r --redirects Integer¶

Define the number of redirects that are allowed.

-m --timeout Integer¶

Define the maximum number in seconds after which a download is cancelled.

-k --proxy String¶

Set the proxy to use in the form of [protocol://][user:pass@]yourproxy.domain[:port]

-d --download¶

Download Images.

-D --skip-download¶

Don't download images, but return the URLs to them (act like a search engine)

-a --artist String¶

Artist name to search for

-b --album String¶

Album name to search for

-t --title String¶

Songname to search for

-e --maxsize Integer¶

(images only) The maximum size a cover may have.

-i --minsize Integer¶

(images only) The minimum size a cover may have.

-F --formats String¶

A semicolon separated list of imageformats that are allowed. e.g.: “png;jpeg”

-8 --force-utf8¶

Forces utf8 encoding for text items, invalid encodings get sorted out

-L --list¶

List all fetchers and source providers for each and exit.

-h --help¶

This text you unlucky wanderer are viewing.

-V --version¶

Print the version string.

-U --update¶

Updates libglyr if new version is available.

-g --as-one¶

(Textitems only) Output all results as one (useful for tracklist and albumlist).

-G --no-as-one¶

Disables --as-one (Default)

-y --color¶

Enables colored output for glyrc (Default)

-Y --no-color¶

Prints no colored output

-s --musictree-path p¶

p is a path to your music directory. Glyr might fetch things like folger.jpg from there

-j --callback Command¶

Set a bash command to be executed when a item is finished downloading; The special string <path> is expanded with the actual path to the data.

-c --cache folder¶

Creates or opens an existing cache at folder/metadata.db and lookups data from there.

cache select [Query]¶

Selects data from the cache; you can use any other option behind this.

cache delete [Query]¶

Instead of searching for this element, the element is deleted from the database. Needs —cache.

cache list¶

List all items in the database (including the artist / album / title / type). Needs —cache.