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h1. Glyr is a searcheninge for musicrelated metadata

_The finest search you can buy for no money_
_The finest search you can buy for no money^TM^_

!https://github.com/sahib/glyr/blob/master/doc/screenshot.png!

It comes both in a commandline interface tool and as a C library, both with an easy to use interface.
The sort of metadata glyr is searching (and downloading) is usually the data you see in your musicplayer.
And indeed, originally it was written to serve as internally library for a musicplayer, but has been extended to
work as a standalone program which is able to download:
* cover art
* lyrics
* bandphotos
* artist biography
* album reviews
* tracklists of an album
* a list of albums from a specific artist.
* Tags, either related to artist, album or title
* relations, for example links to wikipedia
* similar artists
* similar songs
* guitartabs
* backdrops (large artist photos)
|cover|Coverart (front images supported only)|
|lyrics|Songtext|
|artistphotos|Photos of a certain band (press or live)|
|artistbio|Artist biography from various sites|
|review|album reviews from various sites|
|albumlist|A list of albums from a specific artist.|
|tags|Tags, either related to artist, album or title|
|relations|links to wikipedia, myspace, musicbrainz ...|
|similarartists|similar artists|
|similarsongs|similar songs|
|tracklist|tracklists of an album|
|guitartabs|guitartabs in textual form|
|backdrops| Large artist photos, suitable for backgrounds|

*Terminology*:
To prevent disambiguation the following terms are used below:
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h2. FEATURES

* Many built-in providers (46 at time of writing, ~30 distinct sites), high success-rate (the longer the search, the higher the risk :))
* Portable: Windows and Linux are supported (Developement on Linux) see [1] for Mac OSX,
* Portable: Windows and Linux are supported (Developement on Linux) see ~[1]~ for Mac OSX,
* Fuzzy matching: Search providers with Levenshtein algorithm to eliminate typos and enhance search results.
* Decent Unicode support: All sort of valid UTF8 is taken, and UTf8 output can be forced.
* Fast Download: libcurl is used internally, and sources are searched in parallel, unneeded data is not downloaded if possible.
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