How to Add Tidal Music to Plex

By Justin SabrinaUpdated on December 17, 2022

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Plex is a media library application that enables users to stream, share and manage all their media libraries such as video, audio and photos,etc. Tidal is a famous streaming music service, which allows HiFi subscribers to listen to music in lossless high fidelity audio. Does Plex support TIDAL? Yes! Plex now has established cooperative relationships with Tidal. If you don't know how to link Plex with TIDAL and add TIDAL to Plex, then you can't miss this post. Here we will share 2 ways to add TIDAL music to Plex.

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Part 1. Get Tidal on Plex Directly

All Tidal HiFi members can directly stream Tidal music on Plex app. But if you want to enjoy more features, you are required a subscription. Currently, Plex offers 2 plans: Plex & Tidal Premium bundles start at $9.99 per month ($8.99 for existing Plex Pass subscribers, saving up to $60 a year), and Plex & Tidal HiFi bundles start at $19.99 per month. Plex & Tidal HiFi bundles lets you enjoy all Plex Pass features! For more details, you can check from its official website.

Something You Need to Know About Tidal and Plex
* Tidal HiFi Plus subscribers don't have access to Master Quality Audio, Dolby Atmos, or Sony 360 Reality Audio music when played via Plex app.

* The Download feature and Offline Mode are not available on Plex mobile apps.

* TIDAL family plans aren't compatible with Plex.

* You cannot purchase music from TIDAL through Plex. To do that, you need to go to Tidal official website, or Tidal Music app.

How to Use Tidal Music on Plex App?

Step 1. Download the Plex media server for Windows or Mac computer.

Step 2. Launch the Plex app, open the TIDAL transfer page on the Plex site.

Step 3. Choose one of the "Tidal HiFi" or "Tidal HiFi Plus" option on the bottom page.

Step 4. Login to your TIDAL account. It will then transfer your subscription for billing and management through Plex.

Tips: If you are new to Tidal, you will get Tidal HiFi free trial for 1 month. You can start a new account on the Tidal site.

Part 2. Best Way to Add Tidal Music to Plex

Tidal HiFi users can easily enable Tidal on Plex. But what if Tidal doesn't work, or Tidal not showing up in Plex? On the other hand, TIDAL does not currently offer "Family" plans via Plex media server. To make matter worse, you are not allowed to download Tidal music to Plex mobile apps. But sometimes you don't always have a WiFi or Internet connection. Don't worry, in this installment we'll show you the best way to add Tidal songs to Plex app freely and play Tidal on Plex anytime, anywhere!

According to the Plex official page, Plex supports MP3, M4A, AAC, FLAC, WAV, E-AC3 audio formats. Therefore, it is a good option to save Tidal music to MP3, M4A, FALC, WAV, AAC for Plex app.

To get rid of these restrictions, you can ask help from third-party Tidal Music Downloader tools. Here we highly recommend UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter, which is a handy tool to download Tidal music to local computer. This tool works based on the Tidal Web Player. It allows users to download any music content from Tidal HiFi and Tidal HiFi Plus, but with no need to install the Tidal desktop app. In addition, it can convert Tidal music to plain MP3/M4A/AAC/WAV/FLAC/AIFF formats with 100% original music quality kept. So then you can add Tidal music to Plex, iTunes, Windows Media Player, VLC and any other music apps, players and platforms. Also, you may transfer Tidal music to MP3 player, smartphone, tablet, USB drive and more portable devices for offline playing.

Step-by-step: Convert Tidal Music to MP3 for Plex

Step 1. Login to UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter
After installation, launch the UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter on desktop. Click "Login" and login to your Tidal Free/HiFi/HiFi Plus account.

Step 2. Adjust the Output Settings
Secondly, click the Gear icon in the upper right corner to open the setting window. In the pop-up window, you can define the output format (select MP3 format), output quality, output folder, etc.

By the way, you can also classify the output music contents by artists or albums as you like.

Step 3. Add Tidal Tracks/Albums/Playlists to UkeySoft
Now turn back to the main page of UkeySoft, select the Tidal tracks, playlist or album you want to download. Then, just tap on the "+" icon on the right side.

All music tracks in the playlist/album will be loaded into the conversion list consequently. You can remove the ones you don't like.

Step 4. Start Converting Tidal Music to MP3 for Plex
Hit on the "Convert" button and UkeySoft would immediately begin to convert Tidal songs to unprotected MP3 format.

After the conversion is finished, you can click "History" icon, or directly go to the output folder you set in Step 2 to get all converted Tidal music files.

Step 5. Transfer Tidal Music to Plex
Now it's time to add Tidal songs to Plex. Please open the Plex app on your computer and sign in with yout account. Click the "Add Library" menu > "Music" option. Then select the converted Tidal MP3 songs to import them.

Now you can play Tidal music on Plex app even without your Tidal HiFi subscription!

Justin Sabrina

Justin Sabrina has over 10 years of content writing experience. She specializes in product reviews, how-to guides, tips and tricks, top lists, etc. on data encryption, multi-media conversion, screen recording and iOS unlocking. At UkeySoft, she performs in-depth research SEO copywriting and collaborates with our R & D team to offer effective software solution, most of her articles on software are helpful and easy to read, helping our reader easily solve problems through using software or apps.

Justin Sabrina

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Chester is an experienced editor for UkeySoft focused on tech article writing, software & hardware produce review and tutorial. He specializes in composing posts about music conversion, video downloading, video conversion, screen recording and other tech knowledge tips. He always understands user needs and pain points and familiar with all kinds of multimedia conversion software and streaming music downloader on the market. So far, he has published 400+ helpful tech articles of software reviews, how-to guides to help reader in need.

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