Automatic playback detection
Built on Windows SMTC. Works with Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music and any player that supports media keys.
Free & Open Source
Real-time, bilingual lyrics on your Windows desktop
Musebase automatically finds the lyrics of whatever you're playing, syncs them line by line, and shows the original alongside a translation — right on your desktop.
Everything you need to sing along
Multi-source lyrics search
Searches LRCLIB, NetEase, Kugou and QQ Music, then auto-picks the best match using quality ranking.
Bilingual display
Shows the original line with its translation stacked below, so you can follow both at once.
Machine translation built in
When a source has no translation, lines are machine-translated on the fly — LibreTranslate free out of the box, or DeepL with your own free API key.
Desktop overlay
Transparent, click-through, always on top. Karaoke-style progress fill and drag to reposition.
Offline cache
Found lyrics and translations are stored in SQLite for instant, offline display on replay.
Tray controls
Toggle the overlay, nudge sync offset by ±0.5s, search manually, and launch on startup.
Automatic updates
Delta updates via Velopack keep you on the latest version automatically.
See it in action
Lyrics fade in over your desktop and fill line by line as the song plays.
Get Musebase
Latest release: v0.18.0
Download Installer
Setup.exe · recommended · auto-updates
Portable ZIP
No install · run from anywhere
Windows 10 20H1 (2004) or later / Windows 11. Self-contained — no .NET installation required.