Download public SoundCloud tracks, albums and playlists, no account required.
Paste a link, review the tracks, get them with cover art and titles. Then let it watch for new ones.

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Perseus downloads public SoundCloud tracks, albums, playlists and profiles and hands you files that are ready to play: title, artist, album, track number and cover art, organized into one folder per playlist. No account, no login. In Watch mode it checks a playlist at regular intervals and downloads only the new tracks.

The core is written in Rust (tokio), the window is a Tauri 2 app and the interface is React: a ~5 MB installer with no local server and no subprocesses. There is also an online version that runs in the browser, phones included.

• Everything SoundCloud exposes without login: tracks, albums, playlists (including private ones shared with a secret_token), on.soundcloud.com short links, profile tabs (uploads, popular, reposts, likes, albums, playlists), related tracks and search by name.
• Know before you download: the track list shows up front which tracks are unavailable and why (DRM, Go+ preview, region lock).
• Quality: Compatible (MP3) or Best available (the highest open bitrate, such as 160 kbps AAC).
• Nothing is downloaded twice: a per-folder archive, a local library that copies tracks already downloaded to another folder without touching the network, and HTTP Range resume when the connection drops.
• Intact files: every track is validated before it gets its final name; ID3v2.3, MP4 or Opus tags with ISRC, genre, label and cover art at 500x500 or original resolution.
• Organized output: file name templates, length filters, an .m3u8 playlist, and a sync option that moves tracks removed from the playlist into Removed\ instead of ever deleting your files.
• Fast: parallel downloads, parallel HLS segments and reused HTTP/2 connections.
• App and CLI, an interface in 11 languages (including right-to-left Arabic) and structured JSON logs.

See how it compares with scdl, yt-dlp and other tools in docs/comparison.md.

Requires Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit). The installer fetches Microsoft WebView2 if it is missing.

1. Download Perseus_<version>_x64-setup.exe from Releases.

2. Verify it against the SHA256SUMS file published with the release:

   Get-FileHash .\Perseus_<version>_x64-setup.exe -Algorithm SHA256

3. Run the installer. It installs for your user only and never asks for administrator rights.

For the command line, extract perseus-cli.exe from perseus-cli-<version>-win-x64.zip into a folder on your PATH.

1. Paste a link to a track, album, playlist or profile, or type a name and click Search.
2. Pick a mode: Whole playlist, This track only or Watch.
3. Under Settings, choose the destination folder, simultaneous downloads, quality, file names, length filters and the library, .m3u8 and sync options.
4. Click Download. Progress is shown track by track; Cancel stops right away and Open folder takes you straight to the files.

perseus-cli "https://soundcloud.com/user/sets/playlist"                     # playlist or album
perseus-cli --info "https://soundcloud.com/user/sets/playlist"              # metadata and availability only
perseus-cli "https://soundcloud.com/user/likes" --quality best --max-duration 900
perseus-cli --search "flickermood"                                          # search and pick a result
perseus-cli URL --name-template "{artist} - {title} [{id}]" --sync
perseus-cli URL --watch --interval 120                                      # check every 2 minutes
perseus-cli URL --workers 8 --log-format json --report-json report.json     # automation

All options: perseus-cli --help. Optional environment variables: SOUNDCLOUD_CLIENT_ID (manual client id) and PERSEUS_LOG (log filter, tracing syntax).

%LOCALAPPDATA%\Perseus\                 app, cache (12 h), data\library.json and data\logs\ (last 7 days)
%USERPROFILE%\Music\Perseus\            default destination
├── <Artist> - <Playlist>\              .perseus-archive.json, <Playlist>.m3u8 and Removed\ (--sync)
└── Single Tracks\                      standalone tracks

When opening an issue, attach the log of the failed run (%LOCALAPPDATA%\Perseus\data\logs, or --log-file on the CLI) and the run_id shown in the summary.

Perseus opens no ports, collects no telemetry, only accepts soundcloud.com links, only downloads over HTTPS from SoundCloud media hosts and never deletes your files. File names are sanitized so no title can escape the destination folder. Report vulnerabilities privately: SECURITY.md.

Requires Rust 1.90+ (MSVC toolchain on Windows) and Node.js 24+.

npm ci; npm ci --prefix web          # dependencies
npm run dev                          # app with hot reload
npm run build                        # installer in target\release\bundle\nsis\
pwsh scripts/test-all.ps1            # every suite (-Sanity for a quick pass, -Full adds fuzz, performance, mutation)

Perseus is published for educational purposes: a study in building a downloader with sound engineering. It is not a commercial product.

• The software is provided "as is", without warranty of any kind, under the MIT license, and the author accepts no liability for damage caused by its use, modification or redistribution.
• Downloading SoundCloud content may violate the service's Terms of Use and the artists' rights. Whether you use it is your decision, and so are the consequences. Only download what you are entitled to keep.
• Perseus does not circumvent DRM or any other technical protection measure.
• Perseus is not affiliated with, endorsed or sponsored by SoundCloud. SoundCloud and its logo are trademarks of SoundCloud Global Limited & Co. KG.

MIT. Built and maintained by Isllan Toso (isllan.dev). Powered by Tauri, tokio, reqwest, lofty, m3u8-rs, React and Vite.