BetterLyrics
Your smooth dynamic local lyrics display built with WinUI 3
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 effect on every single character
Coding in progress...
Customize in your way
We provide more than one setting item to better align with your preference
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Theme (light, dark, follow system)
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Backdrop (none, mica, acrylic, transparent)
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Album art as background (dynamic, blur amount, opacity)
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Lyrics (alignment, font size, line spacing, opacity, blur amount, dynamic glow effect)
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Language (English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese)
Live demonstration
Or watch our introduction video「BetterLyrics 阶段性开发成果展示」(uploaded on 31 May 2025) on Bilibili below (click the cover image to watch):
Screenshots
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Download it now
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
.zip file, please follow this doc to properly install it
Many thanks to
- Audio Tools Library (ATL) for .NET
- DevWinUI
- Stackoverflow - How to animate Margin property in WPF
- TagLib#
- Bilibili -【WinUI3】SystemBackdropController：定义云母、亚克力效果
- cnblogs - .NET App 与 Windows 系统媒体控制(SMTC)交互
- Win2D 中的游戏循环：CanvasAnimatedControl
- r2d2rigo/Win2D-Samples
Inspired by
Third-party libraries that this project uses
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