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William Bettridge-Radford
William Bettridge-Radford

Reputation: 2612

How can I edit itunes song lyrics from the terminal?

I can get the lyrics using:

osascript -e '''tell application "iTunes" to lyrics of the current track'''

but how can I set them?

I'm trying to make corrections to the current lyrics using my text editor.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 489

Answers (1)

William Bettridge-Radford
William Bettridge-Radford

Reputation: 2612

osascript -e 'tell application "iTunes" to set lyrics of current track to "hoho"'

Thanks to regulus6633

And as a cli script

#!/usr/bin/env osascript
-- update_lyrics <track persisten ID> <lyric file>

on run argv
    try
        set trackPersistentID to item 1 of argv
        set lyricsFile to item 2 of argv

        -- use awk to strip leading empty lines
        set cmdString to "cat " & lyricsFile & " | awk 'p;/^#+$/{p=1}'"
        set newLyrics to do shell script cmdString
    on error
        return "update_lyrics <trackID> <lyricsFile>"
    end try

    tell application "iTunes"
        set mainLibrary to library playlist 1
        try
            set foundTrack to (first file track of mainLibrary whose persistent ID = trackPersistentID)

            set lyrics of foundTrack to newLyrics

        on error err_mess
            log err_mess
        end try
    end tell
end run

Upvotes: 2

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