3 Ways to Download Tidal Music to Computer

By Li ZhangUpdated on December 03, 2024

Summary
Do you want to download Tidal songs to computer for offline listening? This article will teach you 3 ways to download Tidal songs, albums and playlists to Windows/Mac computer, so that you can play Tidal music offline on desktop without Tidal app.

Many users want to download Tidal HIFI music to computer for offline listening smoothly. Although Tidal app is available on Windows and Mac, download feature is not added, so you can’t download Tidal music on Windows or Mac computer. Currently, only the Tidal HiFi and HiFi Plus subscribers can download Tidal music for offline listening on mobile devices, but all the downloaded songs are saved as cache files, which encoded in FLAC format, those downloaded Tidal songs are comes with DRM protection. As a result, it's impossible to take any Tidal downloads out from Tidal app, or transfer Tidal music to other portable devices like MP3 player, USB disk, iPods, etc.

CONTENTS

Part 1. Download Tidal Music to Computer via UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter
Part 2. Download Tidal Music on Github (Tidal Subscribers Only)
Part 3. Record Tidal Music to MP3 on Computer via Audio Recorder
Part 4. Download Tidal Music to iOS/Android with Subscription?
Extra Tips: Listen to Downloaded Tidal Music without Turning Data off
FAQs About Downloading Tidal Music to Computer

In this case, you can download Tidal music to Mac or PC using a professional Tidal Music Downloader. Here in this post, we will help you with that, along with some tips on play Tidal music offline on desktop without the Tidal app.

UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter is an amazing Tidal music downloader for Mac and Windows. It enables all users to download music from Tidal to the desktop computer without Tidal app installed. Honestly, it'll help you convert Tidal songs, playlists and albums to MP3 and save on your local computer.

Tip: System Requirements:

Windows 7 or later on 64bit required

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Mac OS X 10.11 or higher

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Know More About Tidal Music

Tidal has set the record as the first streaming service to offer songs in Hi-Fi quality, since it is a wonderful music enjoying app which provides music fans with HiFi sound quality and HiFi Master Sound Quality. The Hi-Fi plan renders higher-quality lossless streams to give subscribers an immersive sound tripping. When you listen to high-res audio, the experience exceeds the standard audio quality.

Tidal allows you to save your favourite playlists, albums and tracks, as well as download them for offline listening with Hi-Fi subscribed. However, it doesn't give permission to download Tidal Music to computer for offline playing no matter you are a Tidal subscriber or not. How to play Tidal Music on the computer even without Tidal subscribed is a basic problem for most of Tidal Music fans. To fix this problem, the tool you need is a remarkable and reliable Tidal Music downloader. Here, UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter could be the best friend to give a helping hand for you.

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Part 1. Download Tidal Music to Computer via UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter

Although you are able to download Tidal songs to computer for offline listening with the Tidal desktop app, once you cancel the subscription, offline mode will automatically disappear. So, a third-party Tidal to MP3 downloader is always the best way to help you download Tidal Music to computer.

Why Do You Need an Tidal Music to MP3 Downloader?

To download songs and playlist from Tidal to computer device with UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter, all songs will saved on the computer forever, you also can transfer the downloaded MP3 tidal songs to MP3 player for offline listening anywhere you want, no need using the Tidal app.

UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter is built-in emerging technologies, which can help to download Tidal Music to computer with original Hi-Fi audio quality. It supports Tidal Free, Tidal HiFi, and Tidal HiFi Plus accounts. This handy tool offers several output audio formats, like M4A, MP3, AAC, WAV, FLAC, AIFF, with 10X conversion speed. Moreover, UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter is good at saving complete ID3 tags like artists, titles, albums, album arts, track numbers, and so forth. In a word, you can download Tidal songs, playlists, and albums to the computer, even for offline playback music without Tidal subscribed, as well as no require of running Tidal app.

Currently, UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter is highly compatible with Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and Windows 11 (32-bit & 64-bit), Mac OS X 10.8 and above.

Key Features of UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter

Smart Download

Lossless Quality

Mainstream Formats

With it, all Tidal users can download and convert Tidal music tracks to plain MP3, M4A, AAC, WAV, FLAC, or AIFF audio formats.

Remain ID3 Tags

ID3 tags are the key to classify music tracks. This tool will help you preserve full ID3 tags and metadata for downloaded Tidal music files.

All-in-One Tool

The program comes with a built-in Tidal Web Player, Music Player, and Music Manager to enhance users' experience.

High Efficiency

It can run at 10X faster speed when downloading Tidal music to local computer. And it also supports batch download mode.

Flexible Playback

It lets you offline play Tidal music on all music devices and players without limits, anytime, anywhere.

Free Download

In the following content, we will show the user guide to download Tidal music to computer using the Windows version of UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter. For Mac users, you can refer to How to download Tidal music to Mac.

How to Download Tidal Music to Computer with UkeySoft?

Step 1. Run UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter

The first step, download, install and run UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter on the computer, which features a built-in Tidal web player. Follow the instructions to log in your Tidal account.

Step 2. Choose Output Format

The default output format is M4A. UkeySoft also supports MP3, AAC, FLAC, WAV, AIFF. Change the output format or output folder if you need.

customize output settings

You can also customize output song name with any combination of Title, Artist, Album, Track Number, Playlist Index.

set output organized

Step 3. Add Tidal Songs/Playlists/Albums

Click Tidal songs/playlists/albums you want to download to the computer.

add target music to program

Then click the red icon to load songs. All songs in the playlist will be added by default. You can uncheck the songs if you don't want to download.

select target tidal songs

Step 4. Download Tidal Music to Computer

In the final step, simply click "Convert" button to begin downloading and converting Tidal Music to computer with the format you choose.

start to download tidal music

Step 5. Play Tidal Music Offline on Desktop

When the conversion is completed, you could click the blue folder icon to locate the downloaded Tidal Music on the computer. With the built-in music player, you are able to directly play any downloaded Tidal songs offline!

play Tidal music offline on desktop

Additionally, You could open these Tidal songs using other music players like WMP, VLC, iTunes, etc. Or transfer them to your smartphone, MP3 player, USB drive, etc.

get converted tidal Music files

Part 2. Download Tidal Music on Github (Tidal Subscribers Only)

Github is a free website to download Tidal Music online, it support for two versions, including Tidal-dl and Tidal-gui. Tidal Media Downloader is an easy and fast solution for users downloading songs and tracks from Tidal. What's more, it is compatible with macOS, Windows, Android, and Linux operating systems. But it is only available for Tidal Subscriber.

Step 1.

There is a complicate installation process in Tidal Media Downloader. If you are first time to use it, please navigate to Github to get the installment file and refer to the complete instruction.

Step 2.

Step 3.

Set the config file and then copy the Tidal link to this software, begin to download Tidal Music on Github.

Part 3. Record Tidal Music to MP3 on Computer via Audio Recorder

To save Tidal music to computer, you can also use an Audio Recorder. Here are two hot Tidal Music Recorder tools: UkeySoft Audio Recorder and Aiseesoft Screen Recorder, as an all-in-one streaming music recorder, audio recorder and screen capture tool. They can can assist you to rip music from Tidal to MP3 on desktop without any audio quality loss.

You can use it to record Tidal Music as MP3, M4A, WAV, WMA, AAC, etc. Besides, it is support for recording Amazon Music, Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Pandora, and more online music. In addition, this program allow to capture any activity on the computer, recording screen with high quality snapshots.

Simple Steps to Record and Save Tidal Songs to Computer:

Step 1.

Download and launch the Tidal Music Recorder on desktop.

Step 2.

Set input sound, modify output format and output quality.

Step 3.

Start playing any song on Tidal desktop app or web player.

Step 4.

Press on "RECORD" button to rip music from Tidal and export it to local computer.

Tip: System Requirements:

Windows 7 or later on 64bit required

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Mac OS X 10.11 or higher

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Part 4. How to Download Tidal Music to Smartphone with Subscription?

As we mentioned above, the Tidal subsribers can download music from Tidal to smartphone directly. It's no doubt that it's a convenient way to save and keep loved songs on our phone. And mobile terminal of Tidal Music is available on Android and iOS devices. Please make sure the connection of internet is stable. Now you can follow the steps to download Tidal Music to smartphone using the official mobile app.

Step 1.

Run Tidal Music app on your phone and login in with your Tidal account.

Step 2.

Click your Tidal playlist under the "My Collections" section.

Step 3.

Found a playlist that you'd like to download, tap on it to open its "Overview" page. You will see a button for Download near the top. Swipe this button to get Tidal playlist downloads and it will show that the songs in this playlist are added to the download list.

Note

There is no an option to download Tidal music to your phone without a HiFi (Plus) subscription. If you wish to listen to Tidal music offline on your phone with Tidal Free, you need to download Tidal songs to computer as MP3 or M4A files using the solution mentioned above. You can try UkeySoft Tidal Music Downloader, it allows all Tidal users to download any content from Tidal web to computer locally. After that, you can move your Tidal downloads from computer to your phone using iTunes/USB cable.

Part 5. Extra Tips: Listen to Downloaded Tidal Music without Turning Data off

After downloading Tidal songs on your phone, you can play downloaded Tidal tracks when you want to save cellular data without bothering to turn off cellular data.

Step 1.

Choose "My Collection" at the bottom of the screen, and you will see there is a gear icon in the upper-right corner.

Step 2.

Please click gear icon to open the Settings window, where you can authorize your device for playing downloaded Tidal streaming music by tapping the Authorize option.

Step 3.

Once you have authorized the current device, you can choose the Offline button at the same Settings window.

FAQs About Downloading Tidal Music to Computer

Q1: Can you download songs from Tidal to computer?

Tidal doesn't provide an official method to download Tidal music on desktop computer. But you can turn to a third-party Tidal music downloader software.

Q2: How do I download music from Tidal to my hard drive?

To get Tidal music download and save them to hard drive, UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter is a good choice. It supports downloading Tidal songs/playlists to local drive and save them as MP3, M4A, AAC, FLAC and other files.

Q3: Why can't I download music from Tidal?

First, check whether your Tidal subscription account is active.
Make sure you have a stable internet connection.
Make sure you have enough storage space on mobile device.
Update and use the latest version of Tidal mobile app to download music tracks.

Q4: Can I listen to Tidal offline on PC?

Generally, you can only stream Tidal music online from its web player or desktop app. To listen to Tidal music offline on desktop, first you need to download Tidal music to PC. Hence, you can try a Tidal downloader or recorder to rip Tidal music.

Q5: Can you use Tidal offline on computer?

To play Tidal offline on desktop, please download and save Tidal music to local MP3 files. Here UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter and UkeySoft Screen Recorder meet your needs. Afterwards, you can use Tidal offline via other players or apps.

Conclusion

Here are all workable methods for downloading Tidal Music on the computer. While Tidal subscribers can only download Tidal music on smartphone with playback limits. To enjoy Tidal freely, it is necessary to download Tidal music as local MP3 files. To sum up, the best way to download Tidal Music to computer is using the professional UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter. It help all free/paid Tidal users download Tidal Music to computer and convert them into MP3, M4A, FLAC, AAC, WAV or AIFF files for offline playback. Hence, users can listen to Tidal Music offline on PC/Mac without limits even after the Tidal subscription ends.

Besides, users can use these downloaded Tidal Music for more personal usage. For instance, they can burn local Tidal music files to CD, save them to USB drive, play Tidal on VLC/WMP/iTunes, upload Tidal music to Could Drive, add Tidal music to video editor as BGM and so on. Give it a free trial right now!

Tip: System Requirements:

Windows 7 or later on 64bit required

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Mac OS X 10.11 or higher

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