Associate QBZ with qobuzapp:// (open.qobuz.com)

[jrgn9]

Hi! Truly amazing client! I think the Qobuz devs should take note!

Not sure if this feature request is possible, but I got this to work somewhat with the official client running in Bottles. When opening open.qobuz.com/... URLs, the browser sends an URI to the system for opening the release in the Qobuz client. Eg: qobuzapp://album/1234567890. This (on Mint at least) results in the software manager showing a "No Apps available to open..." popup.

I managed to do a workaround for the official client running in Bottles Flatpak. I figured out that I could use bottles-cli to pass arguments when opening a program. So this command would open the link in the official Qobuz client: flatpak run --command=bottles-cli com.usebottles.bottles run -b Qobuz -p Qobuz qobuzapp://album/123456789

I made a bash script with the url as argument. Then I strip "album/123456789" from the url, append it to the flatpak command string and run it with eval. I called the script qop and added it to PATH. This way I could just do qop https://open.qobuz.com/album/rlagdxm3441va and get the album to open. Not perfect, but it worked.

So anyways, I would love it if it was possible to get QBZ to open qobuzapp:// URIs.

[vicrodh]

Hey @jrgn9 do you want to test first attempt of this?
i'm planning to include in 1.1.15, so it is in 1.1.15-rc-1 take a look, feedback is accepted.

[jrgn9]

Wow, amazing! I'll test both this and purchases. Hopefully tomorrow, but might not have the time until the start of next week

[jrgn9]

I can't get it to work. Enabled the functionality in settings - Tried to restart QBZ and ensure that it was still toggled on. Tried to open link in Vivaldi and got "No apps available". For Firefox, nothing happens at all. But that is probably a browser issue.

QBZ version: QBZ 1.1.15-rc-1
Installation method: .deb
Distribution: Linux Mint 22.3 - Cinnamon 64-bit
Desktop environment / WM: Cinnamon 6.6.7
Display server: X11
GPU: Intel Corporation Meteor Lake-P [Intel Graphics] @ 2.00 GHz [I]
Audio backend (PipeWire / ALSA Direct / PulseAudio): PipeWire (I think, I have it set to auto)
Audio device / DAC (if relevant): Sony WH-1000XM4

Nothing related to this in terminal/console log

[jrgn9]

Running it as a terminal command worked! It works both with or without the functionality toggled in settings.

For example:
qbz-nix qobuzapp://album/gxgip6sjrrw7a

Edit: It worked with URLs too!
qbz-nix https://open.qobuz.com/album/gxgip6sjrrw7a

[vicrodh]

Good, now I need to fix the .desktop only, the register works fin, you've installed this with .deb right?

[jrgn9]

Yes, with .deb. I can try the flatpak if you need. Not that I know, but I assume the mime/.desktop handling might be different with flatpaks

[vicrodh]

@jrgn9 have you tried this one with the rc-2?

[jrgn9]

Next on my list, been busy with purchases testing/bug reports

[jrgn9]

I couldn't get it to work. Not sure if I am doing it right/have it setup right? Firefox can't deal with qobuzapp:// at all. Vivaldi does, but I get the same error as before.

terminal: https://0x0.st/PuFp.txt
console: https://0x0.st/PuFf.txt

[vicrodh]

How do you trigger the xdg-open dialog? I'm triying just navigating the web app but it never show it to me but just once and then never more hahaha

[jrgn9]

I have only been able to trigger it in Vivaldi (so I guess it is a Chromium thing?), I am not able to in Firefox. Two ways I am able to do it:

Pressing the "Listen on Qobuz" button on a open.qobuz.com URL (this button does nothing at all on Firefox)

Writing the URI manually, then picking the choice that is not search

[jrgn9]

I have been trying to research how the browsers and Linux deal with this, and I haven't gotten much wiser tbh. In Firefox settings there is a list of content types and what actions they should trigger. I can edit the action, but I can't add more content types. In my list it seems like Bottles and Warp terminal were able to add themselves as a content type?

I haven't been able to test, but I think it should be something like this:

qbz.desktop:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=QBZ
Exec=/path/to/your/application %u
Type=Application
Terminal=false
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/qobuzapp;

Register mimetype:
xdg-mime default qbz.desktop x-scheme-handler/qobuzapp

Check if it is set:
xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/qobuzapp

Not sure if this is automatically picked up by the browser though