qobuz-player

High resolution audio player backed by Qobuz

Powered by Qobuz. Requires a paid subscription. This does not allow you to listen for free.

The web interface is ideal for a setup with a single board conputer, raspberry pi, connected to the speaker system and controlled with a smartphone or tablet.

Player Features

• GStreamer-backed player
• High resolution audio: Supports up to 24bit/192Khz (max quality Qobuz offers)
• MPRIS support (control via playerctl or other D-Bus client)
• Gapless playback
• Web UI

Requirements

• GStreamer v1.18+ (comes with most/all current Linux)

Installation

Download Release

Download the tar.gz file for your supported OS from the releases page, extract the file and execute qobuz-player or copy it to the your $PATH.

Build from source

On Debian, Arch and Fedora, just build-player should make a reasonable effort to install the necessary dependencies needed to build the app and then build it.

Get started

Run qobuz-player --help or qobuz-player <subcommand> --help to see all available options.

To get started:

qobuz-player config username # enter username at prompt
qobuz-player config password # enter password at prompt

# open player
qobuz-player open

# open player with web ui
qobuz-player --web open

Web UI

The player can start an embedded web interface. This is disabled by default and must be started with the --web argument. It also listens on 0.0.0.0:9888 by default, but an inteface can be specified with the --interface argument.

Go to http://<ip>:9888 to view the UI.

Credits

Qobuz-player started as a fork of hifi.rs but has since diverged. Qobuz-player is mainly focused on the setup where a single boatd computer is connected to a speaker system.