Deezer for linux

This repo is an UNOFFICIAL linux port of the official windows-only Deezer app. Being based on the windows app, it allows downloading your songs to listen to them offline!

It packages the app in a number of formats:

• Flatpak
• Snap (not tested yet)
• AppImage (can't automatically login without desktop integration)
• rpm (Fedora, Red Hat, CentOS, openSUSE, ...)
• deb (Debian, Ubuntu, Pop!_OS, elementary OS, ...)
• 7z to install anywhere else

It was done thanks to the hard work of SibrenVasse, who packaged the app for the AUR.

Installation

You can find all of the installation medium in the release pages.

The flatpak file,deezer.flatpakref, can be installed directly by clicking on it; your package manager's GUI should prompt you to install it.

Other packages can be installed from you package manager, either by clicking on them or from command-line.

Please note that eventhough it is automatically generated, the snapcraft package has never been tested; please tell me if there is any issue with it!

From source

You will probably need to install some things in order to generate the packages from source: nodejs and npm, and yarn at least; and flatpak-builder to build the flatpak version.

Flatpak

To build it and install it:

make install_flatpak

And when it is installed, you can run it with flatpak run dev.aunetx.deezer, or from the desktop icon.

To just build it, but do nothing with it (testing):

make build_flatpak

To build it and install it in the local repo (which you can import later):

make export_flatpak

To build it and create a bundle, which is then installable offline:

make bundle_flatpak

Please not that in order to export the built flatpak image to your local repo or create a bundle, you will need to change $(GPG_KEY_ID) in the Makefile to use your gpg key.

AppImage

To build the AppImage image from source, call:

make install_deps
make build_appimage

And the image should be in the artifacts/x64 folder.

Because of the way AppImage work, excepted if you use appimaged, you will not be able to login from the browser: the you are not redirected to the application. To make it work, you must open a first instance of the app, and copy the link shown in https://www.deezer.com/desktop/login/electron/callback. In a terminal (where the `.AppImage file is), call:

deezer-desktop-*.AppImage deezer://autolog/...

And you should be automatically logged in.

IMPORTANT: if you want to open an issue about this, please do NOT share your own deezer://autolog/... link, as it would permit anybody to log into your account without the need for a password!

rpm / deb / snap / 7z

To generate the rpm/deb/snap/7z packages, you can call:

# prepare the build
make install_deps

# and then

make build_deb
# or
make build_rpm
# or
make build_snap
# or
make build_7z

Note that you don't need to call make install_deps everytime you start a build, but you need to call it at least once. Everything should be generated in artifacts/x64.

If you generate the 7z package, you can run it directly by extracting to a directory, and calling ./deezer-desktop from there.

IMPORTANT NOTICE

This work is UNOFFICIAL, and Deezer does not officially support linux yet.

Installing/using this is consequently outside of the scope of the Deezer EULA, and I am not responsible for your usage of this.

I will try to talk to Deezer to ask them if I can upload this on Flathub, but even if they say yes (which is nearly impossible), this work is still unofficial.