Playback

Notifications

Show a notification when a new song starts.

Skip Artists automatically

The following list of artists (1 per line) will be skipped automatically.

Block ads

Disabled audio & visual ads, unlocked lyrics, suggested track, track info, unlimited skips

UI

Fixed menubar

Always show TIDAL Hi-Fi's menu bar.

System

Tray icon

Show TIDAL Hi-Fi's tray icon.

Minimize on Close

Minimize window on close instead.

Hotkeys

Enable extra hotkeys to achieve feature parity with the desktop apps.

Single instance

Prevent opening multiple TIDAL Hi-Fi's instances.

API

TIDAL Hi-Fi has a built-in web API to allow users to get current song information. You can optionally enable playback control as well.

Web API

Enable the TIDAL Hi-Fi web API.

Playback control

Enable playback control from the web API.

Integrations

TIDAL Hi-Fi is extensible through the use of integrations. You can enable or disable them here.

MPRIS

Enable MPRIS interface which provides a mechanism for discovery, querying and basic playback control on Linux systems.

Discord RPC

Show what you're listening to on Discord.

Settings

Update frequency

The amount of time, in milliseconds, that tidal-hifi will refresh its playback info by scraping the website. The default of 500 seems to work in more cases but if you are fine with a bit more resource usage you can decrease it as well.

Flags

Disable hardware built-in media keys

Also prevents certain desktop environments from recognizing the chrome MPRIS client separately from the custom MPRIS client.

Enable GPU rasterization

Move a part of the rendering to the GPU for increased performance.

Disable Background Throttling

Makes app more responsive while in the background, at the cost of performance.

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TIDAL Hi-Fi is made by Rick van Lieshout.
It uses Castlabs' version of Electron for widevine support.