Music Genie

Search YouTube for (copyright free!) music, identify songs from microphone recordings, and download them as tagged MP3s

The main features are:

easily search for (music) videos on YouTube and choose from top 10 results
extracted music is tagged
files are placed in your XDG_MUSIC_DIR or ~/music
offline support for recording audio and running the recognition pipeline later

You can try it from anywhere with uv installed:

# Search for a song you know
uvx music-genie search "a song"
# Listen to a song that's playing nearby
uvx music-genie listen

If you really like it, you can install it as a uv tool:

uv tool install music-genie

An upshot of this is that you can now invoke music-genie by just running mg.

I built this project to scratch an itch and to try out the release of Claude Opus 4.6. It glues together a couple of remarkable open source projects into a single, simple to use tool.

Releases: PyPi
Source code: Radicle (Github mirror)

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HumanAI

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85% human · 15% AI

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50% human · 50% AI

Implementation

5% human · 95% AI

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n/a

Documentation

5% human · 95% AI

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Autonomous

AI drives end-to-end; human reviews final output only.

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AI agent operated autonomously across multi-step tasks. Human reviewed diffs, resolved conflicts, and approved merges.

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The human author(s) are solely responsible for the content, accuracy, and fitness-for-purpose of this project.

Last updated: 2026-02-20Generated with ai-disclaimer

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