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Tidal-hifi
The web version of listen.tidal.com running in electron with hifi support thanks to widevine.
Table of contents
Installation
Using releases
Various packaged versions of the software are available on the releases tab.
Snap install
To install with snap you need to download the pre-packaged snap-package from this repository, found under releases:
- Download:
wget <URI> #for instance: https://github.com/Mastermindzh/tidal-hifi/releases/download/1.0/tidal-hifi_1.0.0_amd64.snap
- Install:
snap install --dangerous <path> #for instance: tidal-hifi_1.0.0_amd64.snap
Arch Linux
Arch Linux users can use the AUR to install tidal-hifi:
trizen tidal-hifi
Using source
To install and work with the code on this project follow these steps:
- git clone https://github.com/Mastermindzh/tidal-hifi.git
- cd tidal-hifi
- npm install
- npm start
features
- HiFi playback
- Notifications
- Shortcuts (source)
- API for status and playback
- Settings feature to disable certain functionality. (
ctrl+/)
Integrations
- i3 blocks config - My dotfiles where I use this app to fetch currently playing music (direct commit)
Known bugs
Why
I moved from Spotify over to Tidal and found Linux support to be lacking.
When I started this project there weren't any Linux apps that offered Tidal's "hifi" options nor any scripts to control it.
Why not extend existing projects?
Whilst there are a handful of projects attempting to run Tidal on Electron they are all unappealing to me because of various reasons:
- Lack of a maintainers/developers. (no hotfixes, no issues being handled etc)
- Most are simple web wrappers, not my cup of tea.
- Some are DE oriented. I want this to work on WM's too.
- None have widevine working at the moment
Sometimes it's just easier to start over, cover my own needs and then making it available to the public :)
Special thanks to...
- Castlabs For maintaining Electron with Widevine CDM installation, Verified Media Path (VMP), and persistent licenses (StorageID)
Buy me a coffee? Please don't
Instead spend some money on a charity I care for: kwf.nl Inspired by haydenjames' issue