Qobuz Download and Record - 2 Best Solutions

Qobuz is a music service featured by its astonishing music quality, including Hi-fi, Hi-Res, and CD-quality music, and its popularity is growing as its products becoming widely accepted.

Though how to play its streaming music is obvious, Qobuz download is not. Even for those who know how to download music from Qobuz, they are searching for a free way to download Qobuz songs because music on Qobuz is not cheap. Well, if you want an answer, you have come to the right place. Here we'll introduce two methods, one official and one free of charge, to download Qobuz music.

 

Download Qobuz Album in the Official Way

We all know that Qobuz offers a one-month free trial for new users, so does the free trial allow us to download music? The answer is, unfortunately, no. The streaming service will only save a cache, which will be gone once you reinstall or log out, in your mobile device, and you can only listen to music online if you are using Webplayer. So no matter you have a free trial, premium or even Sublime, the only way to download music from Qobuz is to purchase the specific album or song you want to download.

Here is a tutorial of how to download purchased album on Qobuz:

Step 1 Purchase the Album

Qobuz has a download store, where you can find the wanted albums or the specific tracks. To purchase an album, add the album to carts and click the Access Payment on the cart page. And for single tracks, click the Buy Track button at the rear of each track and complete payment.

Step 2 Download the Album

Now that the payment has been confirmed, you are authorized to download it. Before downloading, open the Format menu to set the format and quality of the downloading tracks. The blue and green button below allows you to choose to download with either Qobuz for Mac / PC or Qobuz Downloader, which means you need one of the two software to download the music. After you choose the download tool, the downloading will start automatically.

Qobuz Download and Record Free of Album Charge

Though the digital albums are probably cheaper than tangible albums, they are still somewhat expensive. So, is it possible to download the music without paying for it? Yes. Contrary to the previous method, this method does not require you to spend money buying the albums or tracks.

All you need is a streaming membership (free trial works too), which allows you to play streaming music online, and TunesKit Audio Capture, a powerful streaming audio recorder that can record any internal audio in your computer.

TunesKit Audio Capture can record lossless audio in 6 different formats, and you might have already figure out what is the plan. Since downloading the album demands payment, why don't we record the streaming audios? If the recording can retain the sound quality and provide the target format, doesn't it equal to downloading? Doesn't it make TunesKit Audio Capture a Qobuz downloader in this sense?

How to Record Qobuz Radio - Detailed Tutorial

Now you may have purchased TunesKit Audio Capture, you may be using the free trial version to experience the software in person, or you just want to browse through the recording process of this recorder. No matter your intention, you can always use the following tutorial as a using reference, as it tells you how to record Qobuz music in detail.

Step 1Launch TunesKit Audio Capture

Launch TunesKit Audio Capture, and you will see the main interface which contains the list of target software.

Step 2Adjust Output Preferences

Before the recordings start, some preparations must be made. First, click the trumpet-shaped button at the right bottom to adjust the recordings options, which includes output format, sampling rate, bit rate, etc.

Don't worry if you are unfamiliar with all the musical jargons, because the Preset menu is designed to handle this situation. Choose the preset as High-quality or Small-size, and the software itself will change all the other recording preferences according to the preset.

Back to the main interface and open the Preferences menu at the right top, where you can set the specific location that the tracks to be stored.

Step 3Start to Record

Select the explorer with which you want to open Qobuz, and it would be launched automatically (note: if you have already launched this explorer, the previously opened one will be closed). Then play your target music in the newly launched explorer, and the recording process will start in a few seconds, which will not, however, harm the integrity of recorded tracks.

TunesKit Audio Capture allows simultaneous recordings of multiple tracks, because it is capable of identifying the silence interval between songs and separating them into different tracks.

When you finish recording, press the Stop button to end the recording process.

Step 4Trim Recorded Qobuz Audios

After you have finished recording, you can tap the Edit button at the rear of each track to enter the trim mode. You can cut one recording into several different clips and merge all the tracks into one file. This function is useful when you want to make music clips or ringtones.

After everything is done, tap the Save button to store the tracks in local storage.

Summary

All in all, there are 2 methods to achieve Qobuz Download: one is purchasing the albums, the other is to record the streaming Qobuz with TunesKit Audio Capture. While the former is the official method, the latter can save a great deal of money. The sound quality of each way is the same, but it's obvious that a streaming premium plus TunesKit Audio Capture is cheaper than dozens of digital albums. Still, if you care more about the covenience instead of expenditure, the official purchase may be a better choice.