To use system now playing application, enable Preferences -> Lab -> Use system wide now playing application and select “Auto” for preferred music player.

• Add German support. (Thanks to timaniaTM)
• Add Persian support. (Thanks to Mark Karamyar)

Fixed

• Fixed launch with Music app does not work. (#285)
• Fixed automatic writing to iTunes does not work. (#283, #295)
• Auto Chinese conversion now works as expected. (#278, #290)

• Support Music in macOS 10.15 (#280) and Audirvana 3.5 (#267).
• Add Polish support. (Thanks to @senseitbk)

Fixed

• Fixed Touch Bar lyrics disappear as the app activate. (#227)

• You can customize TouchBar lyrics. (#208)
• Introducing strict search. (#221)

Improved

• Karaoke lyrics won’t exceed edge of the screen. (#196, #215)
• Only perform Chinese conversion for Chinese sentences. (#225)

• LyricsX now speaks Japanese. Thanks to @hououinkami.

Fixed

• Fixed a crash when adding lyrics filter. (#202)
• Fixed an issue where selected search result or imported lyrics does not persist. (#203)

• The app is now notarized by Apple.
• You can drag karaoke lyrics window cross screen.
• Support iTunes music video. (#166)
• Add menu item for showing current lyrics in finder.

Improved

• Optimized for dark mode.
• Trim leading and trailing Furigana on kanas for Japanese lyrics. (#183)

Fixed

• Fixed a bug that Touch Bar doesn’t work on macOS 10.14. (#185)
• Fixed a crash at launch affecting users on macOS 10.12.2 and earlier. (#177)

New

• Add support for Touch Bar lyrics. (#33)
• Add global lyrics offset. (#146, #168)
• Automatically generate furigana for Japanese lyrics.
• Add vertical mode for karaoke lyrics.
• New shortcut for lyrics display. (#117)

Improved

• Adjusting lyrics offset no longer triggers an instant disk writing.
• You can set progress color and shadow color separately. (#155)
• You can double click search result to apply it. (#162)
• You can easily open lyrics saving directory in finder.

Fixed

• Fix a crash when searching for specific songs. (#163)

• Karaoke lyrics now features word time tag like a real karaoke machine.
• Introduce new lyrics file format - LRCX.
• Support Audirvana Plus. (#109)
• Support font fallback for karaoke lyrics. Previous selected font is used as font fallback. (#62)

Improved

• Reduced CPU usage.
• Redesigned lyrics filter, support regular expression.
• Disable Chinese translation for non-Chinese user.
• Focus on search window when click “Search Lyrics…”. (#94)
• Perform Chinese conversion before write to iTunes. (#77)

Fixed

• Fixed a critical crash caused by incompatible version of Xcode. (#120, #123)
• Fixed a bug that Chinese conversion doesn’t work properly. (#125)

• You can customize font and color of lyrics window. (#107)

Improved

• Improved lyrics search accuracy.

Fixed

• Fixed an issue that menubar lyrics don’t disappear after clicking on wrong lyrics. (#122)
• Fixed a crash when custom font is not existing. (#121)

New

• Fetch lyrics translation from QQ Music, Kugou Music, and Xiami Music.

Improved

• Reduced CPU usage.
• Change karaoke lyrics screenshot visibility will not require restart application.

Fixed

• Stop searching lyrics for stream. (#95)
• Fixed a bug that combined menu bar lyrics always truncated to “…”.
• Fixed a crash while selecting font and preferences window was already close.
• Fixed an issue that program unexpected prevent iTunes from exiting when “Automatically write lyrics to iTunes” was switched on. (#99)
• You can scroll lyrics window using scroll wheel. (#104)
• Fixed a bug that lyrics which contains unicode combining characters was wrongly highlighted.
• Start with iTunes when iTunes was launched as login item. (#96)

The direct download links are dropped from GitHub. Please install from Mac App Store.

New

• New designed status bar icon.
• You can hide karaoke lyrics when mouse passing by. (activated by default)
• Add a new global shortcut for searching lyrics.
• load lyrics beside music file now works with iTunes. (#66)

Improved

• LyricsX won’t search lyrics for non-music content. (#86)
• Lyrics will be formatted when writing to iTunes. (#79)

Fixed

• Lyrics file now is saved with the correct name. (#90)

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New

• New global shortcut! (#2)
• LyricsX now can load lyrics beside current track. (only for Vox) (#66)

Improved

• Improved animation for karaoke lyrics.
• Reduced network usage.

Fixed

• Fixed a crash when searching lyrics.
• Combined menubar lyrics now works as expected.
• Fixed an issue about marking wrong lyrics. (#70)

Note: LyricsX now requires macOS 10.11 or above.

• LyricsX Lab - try our new experimental feature!
  • Automatically Write lyrics to iTunes. (#48)
  • Lyrics source priority. (#53)
• Added one line mode for karaoke lyrics. (#37)

Improved

• Improved performance when locating lyrics line.

Fixed

• Fixed auto launch issue. (#47, #55)
• Fixed an issue that karaoke lyrics always shows on program start. (#56)
• Fixed an issue that lyrics window stuck when status menu shows.
• LyricsX now can search lyrics for songs which have no album and artist. (#49)

• You can mark wrong lyrics and never search again. (#24)
• Karaoke lyrics window can be placed anywhere. (#37)
• You can write lyrics to iTunes manually. (#48)

Improved

• Reduced CPU usage when no music played. (#44)

Fixed

• Fixed a issue that helper application requires higher system version than main application. (#50)
• Fixed a crash that could occur when playing track without metadata. (#49)
• Fixed custom lyrics saving path accessing issue. (#43)

• #26 Support macOS 10.10+.
• #36 Separate menubar icon and lyrics.
• check for update automatically.

Fixes

• #25 LyricsX crash while player is stopped.
• #35 Disable translation in lyrics window when prefer bilingual lyrics is off.
• #12 Search url unsafe characters failed.
• Surprising search result sorting.

• Add lyrics source Kugou.
• #15 Hide menubar icon 🎵 while displaying menubar lyrics.
• #9 Music player hot-switching.
• #17 Auto select now playing application.

Bug fixs

• New designed lyrics window.
• Double click lyrics to set player position.
• Drag & Drop to import/export lyrics file.

• Display lyrics on desktop and menubar.
• Customize font, color and position for desktop lyrics.
• Show and edit current lyrics.
• Auto launch & quit with music player.
• Bilingual lyrics and auto Chinese conversion.
• Disable lyrics when music player is not playing or taking screen shot.
• Lyrics filter.