Neither Sorrow nor Dash are currently working on Qo-DL. Pull requests are always welcome, but issues will likely go unsolved. Sorry.

Qo-DL

Tool written in Python to download MP3s & FLACs from Qobuz.

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Pre-compiled binaries.

New config file template is usually required on each new release
Here is an image tutorial on how to get the right config file.

Old builds are hosted here.

Setup

Mandatory

The following need to be inputted into the config file:

• Email address
• Format id - download quality (5 = 320 kbps MP3, 6 = 16-bit FLAC, 7 = 24-bit / =< 96kHz FLAC, 27 = best avail - 24-bit / >96 kHz =< 192 kHz FLAC).
• MD5 hashed password - as of release 5, you may input it in plain text instead.

You can't download ANY tracks with a free account.

Optional

• Tags: change value to "n" to omit any tag from the download.
  Everything else is documented in config.ini.

Usage

Fill in your config file first.

Windows

Run the exe.

Linux & macOS

CD to wherever the exe is.

cd Desktop

Make it executable.

chmod +x Qo-DL_Lin_x64

Launch it.

./Qo-DL_Lin_x64

Android

1. Establish which architecture your device is and choose the respective build. You can use an app like this. See under "Instruction Sets." Most Android devices nowadays are either ARM or ARM64.

2. Download your respective build and config file to your device. For this guide, we'll be downloading them both to: /storage/emulated/0/download.

3. Download and install Termux from Play Store. Andoid 5.0 / Lollipop or newer required?

4. Launch Termux

5. Give it access to your files.

termux-setup-storage

Rooted users may skip the next step. Non-rooted users can only launch Qo-DL in Termux's home folder.

6. Move your build and config file into Termux's home folder. Don't forget the fullstop at the end, ignore any ownership errors.

mv /storage/emulated/0/download/Qo-DL_ARM64 /storage/emulated/0/download/config.ini .

7. Make it executable.

chmod +x Qo-DL_ARM64

8. Launch it.

./Qo-DL_ARM64

Qo-DL can also be used via command line.
Make sure you cd to Qo-DL's dir before calling it or it might not be able to read your config file properly.

usage: Qo-DL.py [-h] [-url URL] [-q Q] [-p P] [-list LIST] [-c C] [-s S]
                   [-k K] [-proxy PROXY] [-comment COMMENT]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help        show this help message and exit
  -url URL          Qobuz Player or Qobuz store URL.
  -q Q              Download quality. 5 = 320 kbps MP3, 6 = 16-bit FLAC, 7 =
                    24-bit / =< 96kHz FLAC, 27 = best avail - 24-bit / >96 kHz
                    =< 192 kHz FLAC. If the chosen qual is unavailable, the
                    next best option will be used as a fallback.
  -p P              Where to download tracks to. Make sure you wrap this up in double quotes.
  -list LIST        Download from a list of URLs. -list <txt filename>.
  -c C              Cover size to fetch. 1 = 230x230, 2 = 600x600.
  -s S              File naming scheme. 1 = "01. ", 2 = "01 -"
  -k K              Leave folder.jpg in album dir. Y or N.
  -proxy PROXY      <IP address>:<port>. Must be https. This can't be used to
                    bypass Qobuz's region restrictions for track downloading.
                    It only prevents 404s.
  -comment COMMENT  Custom comment. You can also input "URL" to write the
                    album URL to the field. Make sure you wrap this up in
                    double quotes.
  -embed EMBED          Write album covers to tracks. "Y" or "N".

Qobuz-DL Playlist can also be used via command line, but only supports one option for now.

Qobuz-DL_Playlist_x64.exe https://play.qobuz.com/playlist/1285066

Update Log

Qo-DL

2nd August 19 - Release 5d

Bugfixes (special thanks to jonestly; he was a massive help in identifying most of these and getting them fixed):

• Fixed date/year tags
• Added track version back in
• Fix MP3 tagging
• Program no longer crashes and now notifies you on missing metadata
• Fixed tag disabling
• Fixed restriction checking for both tracks and albums
• When downloading, the quality of the song is now specific to the song, not just the album
• Track version is optionally merged with title but is always printed when downloading
• Updated to latest pySmartDL
• Fixed extended metadata when Qobuz inserted invalid characters into it or left roles empty
• Tracks with leading and/or trailing hyphens are no longer treated as invalid
• Better error handling (no longer immediately exits, it now says whether albums are restricted or not)
• Fixed loading links from text files
• Fixed crashing when keepCover was enabled and the user redownloaded the album

New features:

• User-configurable templates for filenames and folder names
• Support for downloading full artist discographies
• Playlist downloading is now supported in the main program
• Internal refactoring (rip function is now used exclusively for albums and tracks)
• Neutered autoupdate to just become a check for a new version

19th July 19 - Release 5c

• Lots of internal refactoring
• Changed downloader to pySmartDL: uses multi-segmented downloads, should be much faster
• Added extended metadata support: adds instrument players, conductors, etc. Please see config.ini for more info
• Fixed autoupdater
• Binaries are now stored in GitHub Releases

6th July 19 - Release 5b

• appId and appSecret are now automatically fetched if not present or not working.
• userAuthToken no longer saved (will remove from config.ini in another update)
• Downloading functionality fixed from 5a
• Store, album, and track (from Qobuz player) URLs are now all working
• Booklet downloads are properly logged

27th May 19 - Release 5a

New config file req.

• Source code released.
• Some refactoring.
• OS specific code. Now only one script is needed for all OSs.
• Info in brackets is now fetched. 01. Song -> 01. Song (xxxx Remix)
• Check to see if config file exists.
• Update checker / downloader (experimental). Use "checkForUpdates" in config file.
• Replaced move_to with superior DownloadDir from GPM-DL. Tracks will now be processed entirely in the specified dir, instead of being processed in the default dir and then moved to your specified dir.
• x64 Win build scrapped; not needed.
• Config file clean up.
• Fixed single track download dir name. (albumArtist) - (TrackTitle) -> (albumArtist) - (AlbumTitle)

7th May 19 - Release 5

• Two new fields in config file / CLI switches: embed_cover, skip_pw_hash_check (-embed, -skipcheck).
• Two new options for cover_size: 0, 3 (thumbnail, max). I'm not sure if Qobuz provides max for every single track; I didn't implement fallback code.
• Handled crashing when attempting to download tracks with no album artist or track artist info.
• Qo-DL will now inform you when there are missing or empty required fields in your config file. It will write any missing fields if there are any.
• Your inputted password will be checked to see if it's a valid MD5 hashed string. If it's not, Qo-DL will assume that it's in plain text, hash it for you, and then write it to your config file. You can disable this with skip_pw_hash_check or -skipcheck.
• Better UAT system. It will now write your UAT to your config file instead of asking you to paste it in yourself, and then carry on doing its thing.
• Optimized code for reading data from config file.
• Removed unnecessary params from getFileUrl API call.

9th Mar 19 - Release 4e

• Linux builds updated.
• Fixed downloading from list.
• Less strict filename & dir name replace regex. Brackets and commas were being replaced before. Only the characters Windows / Linux doesn't support in filenames will be replaced now.
• Unneeded cover.jpg wasn't being deleted before termination. This would only happen when used via command line.
• Composer would always be set to "xxxx". Even if the API returned composer info.
• Handled the below.

KeyError: 'copyright'

This would happen when the API wouldn't return copyright info.

• Default download folder changed from "Qobuz-DL Downloads" to "Qo-DL Downloads".

2nd Mar 19 - Release 4d

• Single track download support. This can be used with the "-url" arg too.

2nd Mar 19 - Release 4c

• Much more command line options.
• Fixed downloading from a list via CLI.
• Windows' max path limit handled. I couldn't do much about this. Qo-DL won't crash anymore if it runs into this. The track's filename will be left as it was before the renaming attempt. Tags won't be affected.

23rd Feb 19 - Release 4b

• Proxy support. Configure & enable via config file. Must be https, and not http. It will only be used once (for the album/get? req).
• Configure tagging via config file.

13th Feb 19 - Release 4a

• Fixed the right holder restriction checker. Restricted tracks with samples won't be downloaded any more and treated like full tracks.
• Handled the below. Would happen when exiting.

NameError: name 'exit' is not defined

• Handled the below. Would happen when the API wouldn't return neither a performer key nor a performers key.

During handling of the above exception, another exception occured:
TypeError: string indices must be integers

11th Feb 19 - Release 4

• Download playlists using separate exe.
• Handled the below. This would happen if you were to download an album with no album cover.

urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found

You can't use Qo-DL_xxx.exe to download playlists. I haven't merged the playlist code into the main exe yet, so you have to use Qobuz-DL_Playlist_xxx.exe for now.

• Download progress percentage.
• New field 'Move_to' in config file - specify where to move album folder after downloading, "" = default.
• New field 'Keep_cover' in config file - leave folder.jpg in album dir, Y or N. Not usable with Qobuz-DL_Playlist.
• Better way of checking if track is restricted by right holders. The previous method would crash and allow the below to happen with some albums:

KeyError: 'url'

7th Feb 19 - Release 3d

• x64 Linux version added. I'm very inexperienced with it, so I apologize if it doesn't work on your distro. Tested working on Ubuntu 18.10 x64. EDIT: put up a fixed version.
• Command line support. Pass a URL. This is the only option for now. It will automatically exit when it's finished its current task. Passing "list" probably won't work.
• Better code to strip special characters for Windows filenames.
• ">" wasn't being stripped in filenames. Fixed.
• New field 'Tag_swap1' in config file - write to TRACKNUMBER instead of TRACK, Y or N.
• New field 'Tag_swap2' in config file - write to DATE instead of YEAR, Y or N. This only works for FLACs due to ID3 limitations. Not very tested. Metaflac can pick up the two new tags, but Mp3tag can't.
• Handled the below. This happens when the API returns 'None' when requesting the release year for albums. 'xxxx' will be used instead. I'm not sure why the API would do this. It's not album specific, and only seems to hit a small percentage of users.

OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument

• Handled the below. This happens when the API's album response doesn't conatin a performer key. Album specific. "performers" will be used as a fallback.

KeyError: 'performer'

31st Jan 19 - Release 3c

Nothing major.

• x86 binary added.
• Put back in the accidentally removed line that prints "(album artist) - (album title)" at the top of the console while downloading albums.

29th Jan 19 - Release 3b

• Download from list or URLs - put your urls inside a text file named "list.txt" in the current working dir (one per line), then load up Qo-DL and input "list" into the console.
• Fixed crash which would happen if you were to download the same album again already with booklet.pdf inside of it.
• Improved code of checking if files exist and deleting them if they do.

28th Jan 19 - Release 3a

• Handled the below. This happens when you try to download tracks using a free account. You can't.

TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not subsciptable

28th Jan 19 - Release 3

• Unlimited tracks downloadable per album.
• Code clean up - 1800 lines down to 400! Mainly thanks to the above.
• "<" & ">" handled in file names.
• uat input removed - you'll be given your uat automatically now if it's needed.

27th Jan 19 - Release 2

• Mp3 support.
• metaflac is no longer needed. Mutagen handles tagging for both MP3s and FLACs.
• Max downloadable tracks per album 50 -> 100.
• More efficient code for checking if files exists & deleting them if they do.
• Integrated Get UAT into main exe.
• implemented invalid URL input handling.
• Crash fixed when attempting to download albums with video goodies.
• Ability to choose naming scheme via config file.
• Ability to choose which size album cover to fetch via config file.

27th Jan 19 - Release 2a

• Check for empty user_auth_token field would prevent users from getting to the url input screen, thus not allowing them to get the uat.

26th Jan 19 - Release 1

Qo-DL Playlist

23rd Feb 19 - Release 1c

• Same notes as Qo-DL Release 4b.

13th Feb 19 - Release 1b

• Same notes as Qo-DL Release 4a.

12th Feb 19 - Release 1a

• Fixed major issue where the API would only provide info for the first 50 tracks. After finishing downloading track 50, it would loop back to track 1.
• Handled the below. This would happen when trying to download a track with no album cover.

urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found

• Handled the below. This would happen when trying to download a track restricted by right holders in the playlist. This was already handled, but the below would prevent the handler from executing.

TypeError: an ineger is required (got type NoneType)

• Handled the below. Would happen when the API wouldn't return neither a performer key nor a performers key.

During handling of the above exception, another exception occured:
TypeError: string indices must be integers

11th Feb 19 - Release 1

Misc Info

Written around Python v3.6.7.
The user can choose which tags are to be written to.

Misc:

• If a digital booklet is available, it will be downloaded and put in its respective album folder.

• Video goodies must be purchased. Qo-DL can't get them for you.

• Any special characters that your OS doesn't support in filenames are replaced with "-".

• If an album folder needs to be made, but already exists, neither it nor its contents will be deleted.

• If the following files exist in the current working album folder, they'll be deleted: cover.jpg, folder,jpg, booklet.pdf. Files with pre & post filenames will also be deleted (after downloading: 01.flac, after renaming: 01. <title>). This is to avoid any filename clashes.

• If a track is unavailable for streaming because of right owner restrictions, it will be skipped (some record labels disallow streaming of their music).

• ID3v2.4 tag format is used for mp3 tags.

For support via Discord if you're too impatient to use GitHub issues or for general questions:

• DashLt: Dash#0297 (note that in the first case I will match your impatience)
• Sorrow446: Sorrow#5631

Known Issues

• Albums with more than one disks will be treated as single-disk albums.

To make this clearer, track 1 of disk 2 wouldn't be tagged as track #1, but as the track after the last track of disk 1.

• Printing languages like Chinese, Japanese & Korean to the console prints garbage instead.

This doesn't effect anything else in the code; tracks containing any of the above languages will still download & tag correctly.

• If the "Downloading track x out of y" line is too long for the console, it'll be spammed instead of printed on a single line.

You can fix this by setting the width & height before calling the exe, like this:

REM 200 & 30 should be fine
MODE CON cols=200 lines=30
QO-DL_X64.EXE

Enlarging the console window manually by dragging out from the edges might also work. The Linux builds are also affected by this.

• The API has a limit of 500 tracks per playlist. I can't do anything about this.

Troubleshooting

• If you are getting the message below and are 100% sure that you're inputting a valid URL, you need to either use a VPN or enable the proxy feature via the config file. This message has nothing to do with region locking. Nothing can be done about them. Your region is tied to your account.

Not found (404). Bad URL? Returning to URL input screen...

• If you're getting this for every album you're trying to download, you either need a new uat or the app id + sec are dead. To get a new uat, wipe your current uat from the config file and start up Qo-DL. It'll give you a new one. Input this into your config file. If you're getting this for specific albums, there's either a region lock or the track is actually restricted by the right holders.

"Track <num> is restricted by right holders. Can't download."

• My format id is set to "27", and the album is advertised as being 24-bit on the Qobuz Player and Qobuz store, but Qo-DL will only fetch it in 16-bit at best.

Simple explanation: Qobuz lie about/mislabel the highest available streaming quality. Ex. URL:

https://play.qobuz.com/album/qi7icfdkslpva

Try playing the above album in 24/96 via Qobuz Player. Could it be something to do with label rights?

• When upgrading to Release 5 without grabbing the new config file.

option ';1' in section 'Config' already exists.

You can simply delete line 13 if you don't want to get the new config file and fill it in again. You should fill it in with line 13 from the new config file though.

Disclaimer

I will not be responsible for how you use Qo-DL or Qo-DL Playlist.
Neither Qo-DL nor Qo-DL Playlist contain code to bypass Qobuz's region restrictions for track downloading or app IDs / secrets .
Qo-DL & Qo-DL Playlist use the Qobuz API but are not endorsed, certified or otherwise approved in any way by Qobuz. Qobuz brand and name is the registered trademark of its respective owner. Qo-DL & Qo-DL Playlist has no partnership, sponsorship or endorsement with Qobuz.
By using Qo-DL & Qo-DL Playlist, you agree to the following: http://static.qobuz.com/apps/api/QobuzAPI-TermsofUse.pdf