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BetterLyrics
Your smooth dynamic lyrics display tool built with WinUI 3
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- 「BetterLyrics」Feedback Chat Group (Traditional Chinese / English) on Discord
🎉 This project was featured by SSPAI! Check out the article: BetterLyrics – An immersive and smooth lyrics display tool designed for Windows
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
(For lyrics downloading, you can use LDDC)
- From online lyrics providers
- QQ Music
- 网易云音乐 NetEase Cloud Music
- 酷狗音乐 Kugou Music
- amll-ttml-db
- LRCLIB
Screenshots
Standard mode
Dock mode
Desktop mode
Demonstration
Watch our introduction video (uploaded on 7 July 2025) on Bilibili here.
Try it now
- Stable version
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 page for the link)
Please note you are downloading ".zip" file, for guide on how to install it, please kindly follow this doc.
- 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
- Provide lyrics fetch, decryption, and parse for QQ, Netease, Kugou sources
- LRCLIB
- LRCLIB lyrics API provider
- Audio Tools Library (ATL) for .NET
- Used for extracting pictures in music files
- WinUIEx
- Provide easy ways to access Win32 API regarding windowing
- TagLib#
- Used for reading original lyrics content
- Vanara
- Win32 API wrapper
- Stackoverflow - How to animate Margin property in WPF
- DevWinUI
- 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
- CommunityToolkit - 从入门到精通
Inspired by
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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.