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BetterLyrics

Strums the Heartstrings, Graces the Wordscapes

An elegant, highly customizable lyrics visualizer and versatile music player built with WinUI 3 & Win2D

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• Powered by WinUI 3 & Win2D: Experience buttery-smooth animations and hardware-accelerated rendering tailored for the modern Windows 11 design language.
• Advanced Lyric Motion: Breathe life into every word with per-syllable karaoke highlighting, trailing long-note glows, and spatial perspective fading for distant lyrics.
• Immersive Dynamic Backgrounds: Elevate your music with real-time audio visualizers and striking backgrounds—from fluid gradients to blur, fog, and snowflake particles.
• Chameleon Adaptive Engine: Intelligently samples colors from your screen edges or album art, ensuring the player perfectly blends with your desktop environment.

• Universal Visualizer: Flawlessly syncs with local libraries, SMB/FTP streams, and dozens of major platforms including Spotify, Apple Music, and NetEase.
• Any-Scenario Layouts: Choose your vibe: immersive Full Screen, floating Desktop mode, a discreet Taskbar integration, or a Wallpaper mode that embeds right beneath your icons (Wallpaper Engine friendly).
• Precision Matching & AI-Ready: High-accuracy lyric matching with automatic metadata correction and noise reduction. Built with a modular architecture ready for offline translations and Local LLM integrations.
• Community Plugin System: Expand BetterLyrics endlessly. Add custom lyric sources, transliterations (like Romaji), and translation engines via community-built plugins.
• Artistic Lyrics Cards & Analytics: Share your favorite lines using 10+ artistic templates (Vinyl, Polaroid, Cyberpunk), and explore your listening habits through a beautiful "Wrapped-style" stats story.

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

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Chinese Elegance

Traces of Time

Watch our demo video on Bilibili here.

Join our communities to get support, share your layouts, and stay updated:

We welcome community contributions! Here is how you can help:

• Help us translate: Cannot find your language? Start translating here.
• Develop Plugins: Want to extend functionality? Read the Developer Guide.
• Build from source: View build instructions.

If you enjoy using BetterLyrics, please consider supporting the project. Your contributions help keep the development active!

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Discover what the community and media are saying about BetterLyrics! Check out our full Media & Community Features List.

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

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

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