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If you want to enjoy the high fidelity, the lossless audio quality of Tidal music on your HI-Fi audio player, you can download Tidal music as FLAC. In this way, you can enjoy the lossless CD-quality and hi-res quality tracks from Tidal smoothly on any device even Internet connection is not stable.
In this article, I will show you an open-source program that can help you download a single videotrackalbumplaylist from Tidal. You can even choose High Res quality for music tracks and 1080P for music videos. It is available for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android. It is really downloading from the Tidal server, not recording the music.
Disclaimer
Apr 30, 2021 Tidal-Media-Downloader «Tidal-Media-Downloader» is an application that lets you download videos and tracks from Tidal. It supports two version: tidal-dl and tidal-gui. (This repository only contains tidal-dl, and the release isn't the newest gui version.). Download TIDAL TIDAL provides several apps to access its services via Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android devices. TIDAL can be downloaded for Android devices through the Play Store or for iOS via the App Store. We also support Windows and OSX through our desktop app.
- This is for private use only.
- You should not use this method to distribute or pirate music.
- You will need a Tidal subscription. (Any subscription plan will do.)
- It may be illegal to use this in your country, so be informed.
Download Tidal Music on Windows – GUI Tool
For Windows users, you can simply download this Tidal Media Downloader GUI program. No installation required. After downloading, you can refer to the steps or video below to see how it works.
Step 1. Extract the file and run the program.
Step 2. Enter your Tidal username and password to log in.
Step 3. Change the default settings if needed. After that, you can paste a single videotrackalbumplaylist link and press Enter.
Step 4. The program will get the info of the link and then you can choose a quality to download.
Note that high res quality is not available for all tracks. If you paste a playlist link, you can uncheck any of the tracks that you don’t want to download in that playlist.
If you have Python 3 installed on your Windows PC, you can also run this program from command prompt to download music from Tidal.
Download Tidal Music on macOS- Terminal
Generally, Python is installed on a Mac, so you can easily get this program install on your Mac. If your Mac does not have Python 3 and Pip3, be sure to install them first. If you don’t like the terminal method, you can check Allavsoft for Mac.
Step 1. Open Terminal on your Mac.
Step 2. Run the following command:
pip3 install tidal-dl –upgrade
Step 3. When that is done, every time you want to use this program, just type “tidal-dl”to bring up the Tidal Media Downloader screen.
Step 4. As the instruction shows, type “1” to log in with your email and password for Tidal.
Step 5. Then type “2”to change the default settings if needed. Then you can type “4”and then track ID to download a Tidal track. Track ID means the 8 figure number at the end of the track URL.
Type the corresponding number to download the Tidal album, playlist, or video.
Download High Quality Music from Tidal on Android
It is pretty much the to download Tidal music on Android, but first you need to install the Termux app, which allows you to run Python script and other scripts.
Step 1. Download and install Termux app. You can free download it from Google Play.
Step 2. Allow Termux to grant permission for your phone storage by typing the following command.
termux-setup-storage
Step 3. Run the following commands one by one to install Python and tidal-dl.
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pkg install python clang libjpeg-turbo ffmpeg zlib -y
pip install –upgrade pip
pip install –upgrade tidal-dl
tidal-dl
Step 4. Now you can type the corresponding number to do what you want as on a Mac. I highly suggest you change the output location by typing number 2.
Conclusion
This is how you can download music from Tidal server, not recording it. With this program, you can enjoy high res or lossless music on any of your device offline. If you want to download Tidal music to other formats instead of FLAC, you can use Allavsoft.
There is another open-source program called Chimera that can also download music from Tidal and download music from Spotify, Deezer, and other streaming services, but it is a little bit complicated than this. I may write a new post about how to use it. If you are interested, stay tuned.
Macsome Tidal Downloader is dedicated to downloading music, album and playlist from Tidal for offline listening. Besides, you can download Tidal songs as local tracks so that you can transfer and play Tidal music on almost all popular players and devices, including portable MP3 players, game consoles, smart speakers, etc.
Convert Tidal Music to MP3, WAV, FLAC, AAC and AIFF
Macsome Tidal Downloader is also a powerful Tidal Music Converter. There is no need to install Tidal client, no matter what kind of your Tidal music is, playlists, albums, or tracks, it enables to convert them to common MP3, AAC, WAV, FLAC and AIFF with high output quality. Plus, the Tidal Converter supports batch conversion with built-in Tidal web player.
Preserve ID3 Tags and Organize Tidal Music Library
With Macsome Tidal Downloader, you can also get the converted Tidal music with the 100% original ID3 tags preserved, including Track Number, Artist, Artwork, Album and other metadata information in output audio. In this way, you can easily organize your Tidal music library by artists and albums.
Tidal streams offered a more spacious soundstage and sounded that little bit more engaging. Tidal also offers the option to listen to tracks in better-than-CD-quality. That's why so many people choose Tidal. Adopted innovative technology, Macsome Tidal Downloader can help you convert Tidal songs with Tidal HiFi music quality kept and at 10X faster conversion speed.
Same as other Macsome programs, Tidal Downloader is safe and clean, please feel easy to use. All registered users, including subscribed users, will be available free upgrade to newer versions. If you encounter with problems in the process of using or upgrading, please keep free to contact with us.
Screenshot
See the Screenshots to learn how to use it properly1. Main Interface of Macsome Tidal Music Downloader
3. Add Music and Playlist from Tidal to Macsome
- Windows 7, 8, 10 (32-bit & 64-bit).
- Monitor with 1024x768 pixels or higher resolution.
- 512MB or higher of RAM.
- Tidal account.
Supported Input Formats
- All types of Tidal music, like songs, playlists, albums, etc.
- Fix the conversion failure Error -8001 issue.
- Fix other remaining bugs.
Version 1.2.1 released on Mar. 09th, 2021.
- Fix the conversion failure Error -8004 issue.
- Fix the Error -6 issue for the longer than 6 minutes files.
- Support for the AIFF output format.
- Support opening output directory or putting the PC sleep after conversion completed.
- Optimize the Settings interface.
- Fix other minor bugs.
Version 1.1.3 released on Jan 15th, 2021.
- Fix the Error -17.
- Fix the Error -8005 issue due to Webplayer update.
Version 1.1.1 released on Nov 26th, 2020.
- Fix the issue that it cannot be used due to Webplayer update.
- Support the Dark Mode.
- Support the Feedback.
Version 1.0.2 released on Oct 27th, 2020.
- Fix the Error -5 issue.
- Fix some minor bugs.
- Support Windows 7.
- Support hot upgrade.
- Support parsing search result page.
Version 1.0.0 released on Sept 7th, 2020.
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This program helped me download my Tidal playlist to MP3. Now I can enjoy the Tidal tracks on my phone freely. Nice tool, I highly recommend. Thank you.
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