How to Play Tidal Music on Xbox One

By Li ZhangUpdated on December 16, 2022

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Xbox One is one of the most popular game consoles developed by Microsoft, including Xbox 360 ,Xbox 360 E, Xbox One, Xbox One S, Xbox One X, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, or more models. It is reported that gamer spend over 6 hours a week to play video games, while music lovers spend 32 hours a week to listen to music. It's no doubt that background music plays an important role in gamer experience. The streaming music is now much more affordable and convenient way to listen to your favorite songs. Microsoft allows users to play background music on Xbox One while gaming. Though Xbox One now supports most streaming music services, Tidal is not included. Here is problem for the one who is both Tidal fan and Xbox One game player user, how to play Tidal Music on Xbox One? How to add Tidal Music as background music when you are playing game on Xbox one?

Can You Play Tidal Music on Xbox One Directly?
No. Tidal offers two standard subscription plans for subscription, including Tidal HiFi and Tidal HiFi Plus. All subscription types include access to over 70 million tracks, exclusive releases, and tons of music videos, ad-free with unlimited skips and offline play. However, you can’t directly play Tidal music tracks to other devices including Xbox One due to DRM protection. Since Tidal Music is special music format protected, you can only access and play Tidal Music under official authorizing. Actually, if you have a USB drive, you can use it to play local Tidal Music songs on the Xbox One using the Media Player app. The Xbox One USB background music app is available for free, and it supports MP3, FLAC music files.

Part 1. Convert Tidal Music for Playing on Xbox One

You probably know that Xbox One is not supports Tidal app yet, which means that you can't access your favorite Tidal tracks via Xbox One directly. Luckily, the Xbox One allows for the local upload of music files from a USB drive. In order to get Tidal Music on Xbox One, you should download Tidal Music songs to computer first.

To download Tidal Music to local files on computer, we introduce you to try an one-top Tidal downloading software - UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter. UkeySoft is designed to help Tidal users access, download, convert Tidal tracks without Tidal app required. With this smart Tidal Music converter tool, you can convert Tidal Music to general audio formats with high audio quality kept, like M4A, MP3, WAV, AAC, FLAC, AIFF.

The output music files will be save with its all parameters preserved, retain ID3 metadata tags and help to manage your music library easily. What's more, it allows to organize converted songs by Artist, Album, Artist/Album or Album/Artist. Batch convert all Tidal Music contents including songs/playlists/albums/podcasts up to 10X fast speed. Besides, a built-in Tidal web player in program for you play, download and convert Tidal Music without installing Tidal app in the whole conversion. After that, you can play Tidal Music on Xbox One through a USB drive, like Xbox 360 ,Xbox 360 E, Xbox One, Xbox One S, Xbox One X, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, or more models.

Highlight of UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter

• Convert all Tidal Music contents
• Convert Tidal Music to general audio formats
• Convert Tidal Music with high audio quality kept
• Output music with all parameters preserved
• Convert Tidal Music without installing Tidal app
• Convert Tidal Music at 10X faster conversion speed
• Play Tidal Music on Xbox One through a USB drives

Steps to Convert Tidal Music to MP3/FLAC

Before converting Tidal Music to the formats that are compatible with Xbox One, installed UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter on your computer, run it.

Step 1. Log in Tidal Account
Firstly, enter the Tidal built-in Web Player to log in to your Tidal Music account. UkeySoft program promise you it will not reveal any of your account information during the whole conversion.

Step 2. Adjust Output Parameters
Select the output format and other parameters for the converted Tidal Music songs. Click to gear icon on the right corner in main page and then enter Settings menu, you can change Output Format option or others like Output Folder option if you need.

Since Xbox One supports MP3, FLAC music files, you should choose one of these format in Output Format option, or you can select it for every song separately.

Step 3. Add Tidal Music to Conversion List
Open an Tidal Music playlist and press the "Add" red button to select the music contents included in it.

Once you click a playlist, all music contents in this playlist will be default selected, just cull the ones you don't like in the checkbox.

Step 4. Convert Tidal Music to MP3/FLAC
When all the 3 steps are done, click "Convert" to begin batch converting Tidal Music songs to MP3/FLAC.

Step 5. View Converted Tidal Music
When the music conversion is completes, click "History" or open the Output Folder to locate all converted MP3/FLAC Tidal Music contents in program. Or you can offline playback the songs with the built-in Tidal web player in program.

Part 2. Play Tidal Music on Xbox One through a USB Drive

You have get converted Tidal Music as local files on computer, you can play Tidal Music on Xbox One through a USB drive. Please make sure that you have installed the Simple Background Music Player app on the Xbox One. Here's how to get Tidal Music sync to Xbox One.

Step 1. Connect a USB drive to your computer, copy the download Tidal Music files to it. Pull out USB drive from your computer and insert it on your Xbox One.

Step 2. Open the Simple Background Music Player app, then you'll see the connected drive as an option. Select the USB drive and you can browse all the audio files on it and play them.

Now you can freely set Tidal Music as background music on Xbox One (Xbox 360 ,Xbox 360 E, Xbox One, Xbox One S, Xbox One X, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, or more models), and get more good experience in gaming.

Final Words

Before Xbox One supports Tidal Music, you can use this best solution to play Tidal Music on Xbox One while playing games. After converting Tidal Music using this all-in-one UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter, you can get Tidal Music for offline playback on any devices without Tidal authorizing, like PS4, iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Apple Watch, etc,. All in all, UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter is a practical and useful tool you can't miss.

Li Zhang

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.

Li Zhang

Li Zhang is a sophisticated editor for UkeySoft in tech blog writing, as well as a SEO and content marketing expert. She has been writing related article about multimedia conversion, streaming music and streaming video since 2018. Also, she's starting to write article about data security, including articles about file lock, USB encryption, DVD encryption, etc. Each helpful tutorial and solution is based on her practical tests, she is aways energetic and trustworthy in this field.

Li Zhang

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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