BetterLyrics
Your dynamic lyrics display tool, built with WinUI 3 and Win2D, works with in-app playback and other players
🎉 This project was featured by SSPAI!
Check out the article: BetterLyrics – An immersive and smooth lyrics display tool designed for Windows
🔈 Feedback and chat group
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🌟 Highlighted features
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🌠 Pleasing User Interface
- Fluent animations and effects
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↔️ Strong Lyrics Translation
- Offline machine translation (supporting 30+ languages)
- Auto-reading local lyrics files for embedded translation
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🧩 Various Lyrics Source
- 💾 Local storage
- ☁️ Online lyrics providers
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QQ 音乐
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网易云音乐
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酷狗音乐
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⚠️ Apple Music (additional config needed)
- Open the Apple Music web app and the Developer Tools window. Refresh the page. Return to the Developer Tools window, select Fetch/XHR, select a request, find the Media-User-Token header in the request header, and copy its value.
- Open BetterLyrics and go to the Playback Source settings. Enter the copied value in the Media-User-Token (for Apple Music) setting and click the accept icon on the right-hand side.
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🎶 Multiple Music Players Supported
- Check it out here for detailed info
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🪟 Multiple Display Modes
- Standard Mode
- Enjoy an immersive listening journey with rich lyrics, animations and beautifully dynamic backgrounds
- Docked Mode
- A smart animated lyrics bar docked to your screen edge
- Desktop Mode
- Enjoy immersive lyrics floating above your apps
- And More...
- Waiting for you to discover...
- Standard Mode
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🧠 Smart Behaviors
- Auto hide when music paused
Screenshots
⚠️ Due to GIF format and frame rate limitations, the displayed effect is for preview only. Please refer to the actual device for the actual effect.
Demonstration
Watch our demo video (uploaded on 21 Oct 2025) on Bilibili here.
Try it now
Unlimited free trail or purchase (there is no difference between free and paid version)
☕ If you find it useful, please consider donating or purchasing 🧧 it in Microsoft Store, I'll appreciate it! 🥰
Having trouble downloading and installing from the MS Store? See the alternative way to install it here.
Build
Before you build, make sure that you have already replaced BetterLyrics\BetterLyrics.WinUI3\BetterLyrics.WinUI3\Constants\LastFMTemplate with BetterLyrics\BetterLyrics.WinUI3\BetterLyrics.WinUI3\Constants\LastFM.cs
💖 Many thanks to
| Projects/Packages | Description |
|---|---|
| Lyricify-Lyrics-Helper | Provide lyrics fetch, decryption, and parsing for QQ, Netease, and Kugou sources |
| lrclib | LRCLIB lyrics API provider |
| Manzana-Apple-Music-Lyrics | Apple Music lyrics fetch using Python |
| Audio Tools Library (ATL) for .NET | Used for extracting pictures from music files |
| WinUIEx | Provide easy ways to access the Win32 API regarding windowing |
| TagLib# | Used for reading the original lyrics content |
| Vanara | Win32 API wrapper |
| LibreTranslate | Provide the ability for offline lyrics translation |
| Isolation | Dynamic fluid background implementation |
| SpectrumVisualization | Audio visualization reference |
| ... | ... |
Tutorials/Blogs/etc.
- Stackoverflow - How to animate Margin property in WPF
- 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
✍️ Help us translate into your language
Cannot find your language? Or have better translations? Don't worry! Start translating and becoming one of the contributors! 😆
Visit https://crowdin.com/project/betterlyrics/invite?h=c9bfb28fce061484883c0891e7a26f9b2592556 to accept the invitation and become a valuable translator now!
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Any issues and PRs are welcome
If you find a bug, please file it in issues, or if you have any ideas, feel free to share them here.
Donations
If you like this project, please consider supporting it by donating. Your support will help keep the project alive and encourage further development.
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⚠️ Disclaimer
This project is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind.
All lyrics, fonts, icons, and other third-party resources are the property of their respective copyright holders. The author of this project does not claim ownership of such resources.
This project is non-commercial and should not be used to infringe any rights. Users are responsible for ensuring their own use complies with applicable laws and licenses.