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BetterLyrics

🤩 An elegant and deeply customizable lyrics visualizer & versatile music player
Built with WinUI3 / Win2D

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Chat Groups: QQ Group (1054700388) | QQ Channel (BetterLyrics4U) | Discord | Telegram

🧪 Download & Install

Microsoft Store (Recommended)	Manual Install
Unlimited free trial (Same as paid)	📦 Latest Release (.zip) See Installation Guide

📖 User Guide | 🔒 Privacy Policy | ⚖️ Terms of Service

🌟 Highlighted Features

• 🎨 Stunning Visuals & UI

  • Elegant Design: Smooth, highly personalized style powered by WinUI3 & Win2D.
  • Immersive Effects: Fluid backgrounds, 3D/Fan-shaped lyrics, snowflake particles, and more.
  • Deep Customization: Configure animations, fonts, and behaviors to your taste.

• 🎧 Versatile Playback & Connectivity

  • Built-in Player: Play from Local Drives or stream via Network Protocols (SMB, WebDAV).
  • External Integration: Visualizes music from Spotify, Apple Music, NetEase, and many others.

• 🌐 Advanced Lyrics System

  • Offline Translation: Privacy-focused local machine translation (30+ languages).
  • Comprehensive Sources: .lrc (Standard/Enhanced), .eslrc, .ttml, embedded tags, and online sources (QQ Music, NetEase, LRCLIB).
  • Apple Music: Supports lyrics fetching (Requires token configuration).

• 🪟 Display Modes for Every Scenario

  • Standard: Full immersive experience.
  • Docked: A sleek bar attached to your screen edge.
  • Desktop Overlay: Lyrics floating above all apps.

• 🧠 Smart Behaviors

  • Auto-hides when music pauses.

🖼️ Screenshots

Standard View	Narrow Mode

Lyrics Visual Effects	Coexisting Modes

Fullscreen Mode	Fullscreen Mode

Music Gallery	Playback Statistics

📹 Demonstration

Watch our demo video (uploaded on 21 Oct 2025) on Bilibili here.

✍️ Contribute & Build

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Build from source:

Before building, ensure you have replaced DiscordTemplate.cs and LastFM.cs in the Constants folder.

🤑 Donations

If you like BetterLyrics, please consider supporting it. Your support helps keep the project alive!

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📄 License & Credits

This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0.

💖 Special Thanks, Credits & Inspiration

Dependencies & References:

Projects/Packages	Description
Audio Tools Library (ATL) for .NET	Used for extracting pictures from music files
cutlet	Provide the ability for converting Japanese to romaji
DevWinUI	Provide many out-of-the-box features for building WinUI 3 applications
Isolation	Dynamic fluid background implementation
LibreTranslate	Provide the ability for offline lyrics translation
lrclib	LRCLIB lyrics API provider
Lyricify-Lyrics-Helper	Provide lyrics fetch, decryption, and parsing for QQ, Netease, and Kugou sources
Manzana-Apple-Music-Lyrics	Apple Music lyrics fetch using Python
SpectrumVisualization	Audio visualization reference
TagLib#	Used for reading the original lyrics content
Vanara	Win32 API wrapper
WinUIEx	Provide easy ways to access the Win32 API regarding windowing

See dependencies for full list.

💡 Inspired by:

Some design ideas are referenced from the following projects (design inspiration only):

• refined-now-playing-netease
• Lyricify-App
• Salt Player
• MyToolBar

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This project is under active development; unexpected issues may occur.
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