BetterLyrics

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Background & Visuals ​

BetterLyrics features a powerful background rendering engine that supports multi-layered display of stunning visual effects. You can combine these effects to create a unique and immersive music playback experience.

Base Backgrounds ​

You can choose from the following types as the bottom-most background layer:

Pure Color Overlay ​

  • Fills the background with a solid color.
  • You can adjust the Opacity to blend it with your desktop wallpaper or underlying windows (ideal for floating/desktop modes).

Cover Overlay (Album Blur) ​

  • Extracts the high-definition album art of the currently playing song and stretches it to fill the background.
  • Blur Amount: Controls the intensity of the blur. A higher blur prevents complex album art from distracting from the lyrics.
  • Opacity: Darkens the cover brightness.
  • Speed: Controls the smooth transition speed when switching album covers.

Fluid Overlay ​

The fluid gradient is one of BetterLyrics' signature effects, generating a dynamically flowing color gradient based on the primary colors of the album art.

  • Motion: You can set the fluid to be Dynamic (flowing) or Static (frozen) to save GPU resources.
  • Color Dithering: When enabled, eliminates color banding in the gradient, making color transitions silky smooth.
  • Light Wave: Adds additional light and shadow fluctuations to the fluid gradient, enhancing the 3D feel.

Environment Effects (Overlays) ​

On top of the base background, you can layer the following environmental effects:

Fog Overlay ​

Generates a slowly drifting fog layer at the bottom of the screen, enhancing the atmospheric immersion.

Snowflake Overlay ​

Falling snow particle effect, perfect for winter vibes or cool-toned songs.

  • Amount: Controls the density of the snowflakes on the screen.
  • Speed: Controls how fast the snowflakes fall.

Raindrop Overlay ​

A realistic glass raindrop effect.

  • You can freely adjust the Size, Speed, and Density of the raindrops.
  • Advanced settings: Supports tweaking the Light Angle and Shadow Intensity to achieve the most realistic refraction texture.

Audio Spectrum Visualization ​

A built-in real-time audio spectrum analyzer that lets you "see" the rhythm of the music.

Spectrum Style ​

  • Placement: Place the spectrum at the bottom, top, left, or right of the screen.
  • Style: Choose between Curve (smooth line) and Bar (discrete pillars) representation.
  • Count: Adjust the number of frequency bands (e.g., 32 or 64).
  • Sensitivity: Controls how responsively the spectrum reacts to audio amplitude.

Spectrum Appearance ​

  • Glow Effect: Makes the spectrum lines emit a soft glow.
  • Color Type: Supports Adaptive (smart color extraction) or a specific Custom Color.
  • Opacity: Adjust the transparency of the spectrum to prevent it from blocking the lyrics.

Global Dynamics ​

Almost all effect layers support the following two global dynamic behaviors:

  1. Breathing Effect:
    • When enabled, the opacity or intensity of the effect layer (such as fluid, spectrum, or snowflakes) will gently pulse or "breathe" in sync with the beat of the music.
    • Adjustable parameter: Breathing Intensity.
  2. Parallax Effect:
    • As you move the mouse within the window, the background layers will slightly shift in response, creating a 3D parallax depth illusion.