Simple Method to Add Tidal Music to Shotcut

By Justin SabrinaUpdated on April 07, 2023

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Q: "I often make video projects with Shotcut for uploading to my YouTube Channel. To make it more attractive, I'm eager to add some music tracks to video on Shotcut as BGM. But I don't know how to upload Tidal downloads to Shotcut for using. Is it possible? How do I add Tidal music to video on Shotcut?" - Janny

Shotcut is a free but amazing video editing software for Windows, Mac and Linux. This handy tool comes with many powerful features, such as video effects, editing Features, display and monitoring, etc. It enables users to create stunning videos for various purposes with ease. Thanks to FFmpeg, this tool supports hundreds of audio and video formats and codecs. However, the popular streaming music services like Tidal, are not included in its supported list of audio formats by Shotcut. That's to say, users are unable to import Tidal music to a video in Shotcut directly.

You should pay attention that all music tracks from Tidal are cached files with DRM encryption. Tidal allows HiFi and HiFi Plus subscribers to download Tidal music for offline listening. But they can only access the Tidal downwloads within the Tidal Mobile app. If you want to add Tidal music to Shotcut Video Editor, you need download Tidal music to Shotcut-supported audio formats. Currently, Shotcut supports the MP3, M4A, OGG, WAV, FLAC and other commonly used audio formats. In such case, you can ask help from a third-party Tidal music converter tool. And we find UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter is a great converter to meet up the needs of people.

Best Tool to Add Tidal Music to Shotcut

To add Tidal music to Shotcut, UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter is your best choice. UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter (Mac & Windows) plays a vital part in downloading and converting the Tidal music tracks into Shotcut compatible format. It allows both Tidal Free and HiFi users to download Tidal songs, podcasts, albums & playlists to computer locally. Not only that, it lets you convert all Tidal songs to plain MP3, M4A, FLAC, WAV, AAC and AIFF files with 100% lossless quality preserved.

Thanks to the ID3 editing feature, it will keep the original metadata and ID tag information in the output Tidal songs. Besides, you can also customize your output file name based on the tags like Title, Album, Artist, Track Number, and Playlist Index. To help users manage their music library, it allows users to organize them by artist, album, artist or album, album/artist. It has an intuitive and multilingual interface and comes with a built-in Tidal web player. Only in a few steps, you can get Tidal music downloaded on your folder, and then upload Tidal songs to Shotcut, iMovie, Final Cut Pro, Splice, InShot and any video editing apps.

Features of UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter:

• Support Tidal Free, Tidal HiFi and Tidal HiFi Plus users.
• Download songs, albums, artists and podcasts from Tidal.
• Download and save Tidal music as local computer files.
• Convert Tidal music to MP3, M4A, AAC, WAV, FLAC, AIFF.
• Download and convert Tidal songs at 10X faster speed.
• Preserve and edit music quality and parameters easily.
• Built-in Tidal web player, no need to use Tidal Music App.
• Add Tidal music to Shotcut, YouCut, CapCut, and any video editing apps.
• Lets you enjoy Tidal music on any device and player everywhere.

Step-by-step: How to Convert and Add Tidal to Shotcut

Next, we will show you the detailed guide to use this tool to convert Tidal music to MP3 files, then import Tidal songs to Shotcut video editor.

Step 1. Open UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter
After installation, start the UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter on the desktop. Login to your Tidal Free/HiFi account on the software, and you will enter the Tidal web player.

Step 2. Customize Output Audio Parameters
Click on the Gear icon in the upper left corner, a window pop-up to carry out the settings process. From where you could customize output format, output quality, output file name, language, etc.

To add Tidal music to Shotcut or other video editing apps, you can change the default M4A format to the universal MP3 format. By the way, you can also adjust the bitrate to 320kbps.

Step 3. Add Tidal Playlist/Album to Conversion Panel
Open any Tidal playlist or album, then click on the red "+" icon in the right side to load the songs in the playlist/album.

Batch conversion allows you to select as many Tidal songs as possible at once. You can uncheck the songs you don't like.

Step 4. Convert Tidal Music to MP3 Files
After adding the songs successfully, tap on the "Convert" button to begin the conversion process of Tidal music.

When the conversion goes to the end, you can click the "History" button to find the output Tidal songs.

Step 5. Import Tidal Song to Shotcut
- Launch the Shotcut app on your Mac or Windows.
- Create or open a video project.
- Go to the Menu bar and select "Add Audio Track".
- Then drag and drop the Tidal music from the Output Folder into the timeline.

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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Justin Sabrina

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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