songrec-listen(1)

songrec-listen1

Run as a command-line program listening the microphone and printing recognized songs to stdout, exposing current song info via mpris

Usage

songrec listen [{-l | --list-devices}] [{-d | --audio-device}] [{-i | --request-interval}] [{-j | --json}] [{-c | --csv}] [--disable-mpris] [{-h | --help}]

Overview

Run as a command-line program listening the microphone and printing recognized songs to stdout, exposing current song info via MPRIS

Options

-l, --list-devices

List available audio devices and quit

-d, --audio-device

Specify the audio device to use

-i, --request-interval [default: 10]

Shazam interval between requests in seconds (increase if you are rate-limited)

-j, --json

Enable printing full song info in JSON

-c, --csv

Enable printing full song info in the CSV format

--disable-mpris

Disable MPRIS support

-h, --help

Print help

From songrec 0.8.0-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.