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BetterLyrics

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

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🧪 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

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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
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
DevWinUI	Provide many out-of-the-box features for building WinUI 3 applications

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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