0.26.0 — Tauri rebuild (~116 MB → ~10 MB)
The whole app moved off Electron onto Tauri. Same overlay, same visuals — the installer went from ~116 MB to ~10 MB (no bundled Chromium; it uses the Windows WebView2 runtime).
What changed
- Rust backend: SMTC detection, three synced lyric sources (LRCLIB / NetEase / Kugou), cover art + "choose a different cover" picker, the LLM features (translation, per-line attribution, mood, transliteration), wallpaper mode, tray, global hotkeys, local-file playback, MilkDrop, signed auto-updater, key storage.
- Auto-transcription runs in-app now (WebAssembly Whisper); the speech model downloads on first use instead of shipping a 22 MB runtime.
- The visual layer (WebGL swirl, galaxy, MilkDrop, lyric column) is the same web renderer, just hosted by Tauri.
Install
Download LyricOverlay_0.26.0_x64-setup.exe. Existing 0.25.0 (Electron) installs don't auto-migrate — install this fresh to move to the Tauri build. From 0.26.0 onward it self-updates.
Requires the WebView2 runtime (already present on Windows 11 and most Windows 10).