DZR: the command line deezer.com player

⚠️ For legal reasons this project

• does not contain any track decryption key
• does not cache any tracks on your machine

Preview

Dependencies

• mpv for playback (because of PLAYER="mpv -" default env variable)
• curl for HTTP query
• jq for API parsing
• dialog for TUI
• openssl (or openssl-tool in Android) for track decryption

Compatibility

• Linux and {Free,Open}BSD
• Android (using Termux from F-droid)
• Window 10 (running dzr as CGI server from WSL and browsing http://127.0.0.1:8000 from Windows)

Install

From the AUR (Arch Linux)

yay -S dzr

From GURU (Gentoo)

emerge --ask dzr

From sources

Save source into a dzr-master folder, then copy into /usr/local/bin :

curl -sL github.com/yne/dzr/archive/master.tar.gz | tar xzf -
sudo mv dzr-master/dzr* /usr/local/bin

Usage Examples

dzr             # welcome screen
dzr /artist/860 # browse deezer.com/en/artist/860

Automatic ID3v2 Tagging

Use dzr-id3 to rename (as $ARTIST - $TITLE.mp3) and tag a given MP3 using it deezer track id

# the following examples are all equivalent
dzr-id3 1043317462 daylight.mp3
dzr-id3 /track/1043317462 daylight.mp3
dzr-id3 https://deezer.com/en/track/1043317462 daylight.mp3

Real time Lyrics

Use dzr-srt to extract lyrics of the current track and pass it to mpv as --sub-file :

PLAYER='mpv --sub-file=<(dzr-srt $id) -' dzr /track/14408104

HTTP/Web interface

In addition to it command line interface, dzr also support being invoked from a cgi server :

mkdir -p cgi-bin
cp dzr* ./cgi-bin/
python3 -m http.server --cgi

You shall then be able to play any track over HTTP (ex: http://127.0.0.1:8000/cgi-bin/dzr?6113114 )

A basic web interface is also available on http://127.0.0.1:8000

Feel free to create your own frontend an publish it as a new repository (not as a dzr fork) with the dzr tag.