Lrclib MCP server

mcp-lrclib

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LRCLIB is a free, open database of song lyrics, built by the people who use it and offered to anyone without a key or an account. It holds two forms of the words: the plain text of a song, and the LRC form, where every line carries the moment it is sung, which is what a karaoke display or a lyrics panel follows along with. A track is filed there by its title, its artist, its album and its duration, so the several releases of one song sit side by side.

This server connects a chat client to that database. You can search for a track by title, artist or album, read the plain words of a song, read its time-synced lines with their timestamps, and check the metadata of one release before reading it. It needs no API key and no account.

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Install

One-click install

Claude Code

claude mcp add lrclib -- npx -y mcp-lrclib

Claude Desktop, Cursor, and any client using the standard config format

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "lrclib": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "mcp-lrclib"]
    }
  }
}

Node 24 or later is required, and no environment variable has to be set.

With Docker

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "lrclib": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": ["run", "-i", "--rm", "ghcr.io/smeet666/mcp-lrclib:2.0.1"]
    }
  }
}

-i keeps stdin open, which is where the protocol travels, and -t is left out because a TTY rewrites the stream. The container needs outbound HTTPS to lrclib.net, and nothing else: no volume, no port, no credential.

Bundle, without npm

Download mcp-lrclib-2.0.1.mcpb from the latest release and open it. A client that supports MCP bundles installs it on its own, with no npm and no configuration file to edit. The bundle carries its dependencies, so nothing is fetched at install time.

What you can ask

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.