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Qobuz only supports Linux through the browser and has no officially supported API. There are ways of accessing Qobuz in Linux outside of the browser through third-party applications like Squeezelite and Roon. These apps are great, but I wanted something simpler that just focused on being able to quickly find and play an album inside the console.

• Low resource usage
• GStreamer-backed player, SQLite database
• High resolution audio: Supports up to 24bit/192Khz (max quality Qobuz offers)
• MPRIS support (control via playerctl or other D-Bus client)
• Gapless playback
• Resume last session
• TUI can be disabled to use as a headless player, controlled via MPRIS

In addition to the player, there is a Spotify to Qobuz playlist sync tool and an incomplete Rust library for the Qobuz API.

Download tar from releases page, extract the tar and execute it or copy it to the your $PATH.

Run hifi-rs --help or hifi-rs <subcommand> --help to see all available options.

To get started:

hifi-rs config username # enter username at prompt
hifi-rs config password # enter password at prompt
hifi-rs config default-quality # enter quality at prompt (mp3, cd, hifi96 or hifi192)
hifi-rs play --uri <Qobuz Album, Playlist or Track URL>

• If left paused for a while, the player will crash when attempting to play again
• UI will freeze during loading of long lists and then works fine. The issue is there is no feedback alerting the user that something is happening in the background and signifying it is normal behavior. Probably best solved when switching to Cursive.

• Build binaries and make Github releases
• Use unified search endpoint instead of individual
• Switch to Cursive for UI library
• Enable searching for albums, tracks and playlists in the UI
• Sortable lists