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BetterLyrics
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Your smooth dynamic lyrics display tool built with WinUI 3
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## Highlighted features

- Dynamic blur album art as background
- Smooth lyrics fade in/out, zoom in/out effects
- Smooth user interface change from song to song
- Gradient Karaoke (with glow) effect on every single character
- Immersive desktop lyrics (dock mode)
- Local translation (supporting 30 languages)

> This project is still under development, bugs and unexpected behaviors may be existed in the latest branch.

## Supported lyrics source

- From your local storage
  - Music files (with embedded lyrics)
  - [.lrc](<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LRC_(file_format)>) files (with both core format and enhanced format)
  - [.eslrc](https://github.com/ESLyric/release) files
  - [.ttml](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timed_Text_Markup_Language) files

(For lyrics downloading, you can use [LDDC](https://github.com/chenmozhijin/LDDC))

- From online lyrics providers
  - QQ Music
  - 网易云音乐 NetEase Cloud Music
  - 酷狗音乐 Kugou Music
  - [amll-ttml-db](https://github.com/Steve-xmh/amll-ttml-db)
  - [LRCLIB](https://lrclib.net/)

## Screenshots

### Standard mode

![alt text](Screenshots/image.png)

![alt text](Screenshots/glow-float.gif)

![alt text](Screenshots/fan.png)

![alt text](Screenshots/lyrics-only.png)

![alt text](Screenshots/album-art-only.png)

### Dock mode

![alt text](Screenshots/dock-1.png)

![alt text](Screenshots/dock-2.png)

### Desktop mode

![alt text](Screenshots/desktop-1.png)

![alt text](Screenshots/desktop-2.png)

## Demonstration

Watch our introduction video (uploaded on 7 July 2025) on Bilibili [here](https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1zjGjzfEXh).

## Try it now

- Stable version

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> **Easiest** way to get it. **Unlimited** free trail or purchase (there is **no difference** between free and paid version, if you like you can purchase to support me)

Or alternatively get it from Google Drive (see [release](https://github.com/jayfunc/BetterLyrics/releases/latest) page for the link)

> Please note you are downloading ".zip" file, for guide on how to install it, please kindly follow [this doc](How2Install/How2Install.md).

- Latest dev version

You can `git clone` this project and build it yourself.

## Tested music player

- Kugou Music
  - No timeline information broadcasted, which means when you change timeline position in Kugou Music, BetterLyrics has no way to detect this change. 
- Apple Music
  - Make sure you have set timeline threshold to around 600 ms in settings (Go to "Settings" - "Advanced option" to change), otherwise, the lyrics will be moving forward and afterward constantly.
- foobar2000
  - Make sure you have https://github.com/dumbie/foo_mediacontrol installed with it
- Spofity
- QQ Music
- PotPlayer
- Media Player (System)

## Many thanks to

- [Lyricify-Lyrics-Helper](https://github.com/WXRIW/Lyricify-Lyrics-Helper)
  - Provide lyrics fetch, decryption, and parse for QQ, Netease, Kugou sources
- [LRCLIB](https://lrclib.net/)
  - LRCLIB lyrics API provider
- [Audio Tools Library (ATL) for .NET](https://github.com/Zeugma440/atldotnet)
  - Used for extracting pictures in music files
- [WinUIEx](https://github.com/dotMorten/WinUIEx)
  - Provide easy ways to access Win32 API regarding windowing
- [TagLib#](https://github.com/mono/taglib-sharp)
  - Used for reading original lyrics content
- [Vanara](https://github.com/dahall/Vanara)
  - Win32 API wrapper
- [Stackoverflow - How to animate Margin property in WPF](https://stackoverflow.com/a/21542882/11048731)
- [DevWinUI](https://github.com/ghost1372/DevWinUI)
- [Bilibili -【WinUI3】SystemBackdropController：定义云母、亚克力效果](https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1PY4FevEkS)
- [cnblogs - .NET App 与 Windows 系统媒体控制(SMTC)交互](https://www.cnblogs.com/TwilightLemon/p/18279496)
- [Win2D 中的游戏循环：CanvasAnimatedControl](https://www.cnblogs.com/walterlv/p/10236395.html)
- [r2d2rigo/Win2D-Samples](https://github.com/r2d2rigo/Win2D-Samples/blob/master/IrisBlurWin2D/IrisBlurWin2D/MainPage.xaml.cs)
- [CommunityToolkit - 从入门到精通](https://mvvm.coldwind.top/)

## Inspired by

- [refined-now-playing-netease](https://github.com/solstice23/refined-now-playing-netease)
- [Lyricify-App](https://github.com/WXRIW/Lyricify-App)
- [椒盐音乐 Salt Player](https://moriafly.com/program/salt-player)
- [MyToolBar](https://github.com/TwilightLemon/MyToolBar)

## Star History

[![Star History Chart](https://api.star-history.com/svg?repos=jayfunc/BetterLyrics&type=Date)](https://www.star-history.com/#jayfunc/BetterLyrics&Date)

## Any issues and PRs are welcomed

If you find a bug please file it in issues or if you have any ideas feel free to share it here.