How to Play Tidal on Apple TV without Subscription

By ChesterUpdated on December 17, 2022

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"Can you please tell me how I can play my Tidal playlist on Apple TV? My Tidal subscription is expiring, I do not want to pay Tidal anymore for membership extension, how can I move my Tidal playlist to Apple TV? Thanks for the help." Asked by June.

Tidal has announced to launch its music app on Apple TV 2017, Tidal subscribers are able to access over 80 millions Tidal tracks, exclusive contents, music videos, live stream and interviews directly on Apple TV with the Tidal app. Thus, there are many Tidal subscribers who are about to cancel their subscription or their memberships are expiring soon, and they want to keep their Tidal playlists and play on Apple TV.

Common Questions From Tidal Users

• Is There a Possible Way to Download Tidal Music to MP3 for free to play on Apple TV?
• How to keep Tidal Music Forever Without Subscription?
• What is the sound quality would be like if I download Tidal Music to play on Apple TV?

If you are looking for the solutions for all the questions above, you have come to the right place, we could give positive answers. Please read this article in details, we will show you 2 ways to play Tidal on Apple TV, one for Tidal subscribers and other is for free users.

Contents

Part 1: How to Play Tidal on Apple TV with Subscription

This is the official way to play Tidal music on Apple TV, you need to install the Tidal app on Apple TV, then you can stream Tidal music directly on Apple TV. With Tidal subscription, you can stream Tidal music with Hi-Fi audio quality and download Tidal music to play within the Tidal app for offline listening.

Tidal Subscription Option:

• Tidal Free: Stream music online with sound quality up to 163 Kbps.
• Tidal Hi-Fi: $9.9/month, ad-free and download music in HiFi sound quality up to 1411 Kbps.
• Tidal Hi-Fi Plus: $19.9/month, with lossless High Fidelity sound quality at 1411 kbps, Master Quality audio(up to 9216 Kbps), 360 Reality Audio and Dolby Atmos Music.

This is a very simple way, you just need to connect Tidal to Apple TV, then please follow the steps.

Step 1. Download and install the Tidal app in App Store, and launch it on your Apple TV.

Step 2. Visit link.Tidal.com on your phone or computer.

Step 3. Log in your Tidal subscription account.

Step 4. Type in the code displayed on your Apple TV, connect it with your account and start streaming music on Apple TV.

Part 2: How to Play Tidal on Apple TV without Subscription

If you cancel your Tidal subscription, how can you keep your music to play offline on Apple TV? In this case, you need a third-party tool to save the Tidal music in MP3 and FLAC formats, which are compatible with Apple TV.

Tool Required - UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter

UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter is a professional and useful tool offers the features to download and convert Tidal Music to common audio formats, like MP3, AAC, M4A, WAV, FLAC and AIFF at 10x faster speed, also it retains the ID3 tags after conversion. Most importantly, the program will keep the downloaded songs in Hi-Fi quality. Anyway, with the help of UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter, you can download Tidal music to your computer with lossless sound quality and play Tidal music on Apple TV forever.

Key Features:

• Support Tidal free and Tidal HiFi users.
• Download Tidal music for free.
• Convert Tidal music to MP3, AAC, M4A, WAV, FLAC and AIFF.
• Keep up to Hi-Fi audio quality.
• 10X conversion speed.
• Keep ID3 tags after conversion.
• No need to install the Tidal app and free technical support.

Guide: How to Download Tidal Music to Computer

Step 1. Launch and log in
Download UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter and install it, launch the program and log in with your Tidal account.

Step 2. Output setting
Before downloading the songs, click on the 'gear' icon on the top right corner to choose your output setting. We can choose MP3 or FLAC for the output format as they are compatible with Apple TV, we select MP3 for example as the screen shot shown below.

There are many other settings that you can customize your output music, such as output quality, output file name, output organize, etc.

Step 3. Add Tidal music to download
Choose an album, playlist or artist, add them by clicking on the red "+ Add to list" icon on the right side.

All songs are selected by default, you need to select the songs that you want to download from the list to play on Apple TV.

Step 4. Start downloading and Converting music
Click the "convert" button to download and convert Tidal music to computer at 10X conversion speed.

Step 5. Find the local Tidal Music
After the conversion is done, You can find the local MP3 files by clicking the little blue output folder on your computer.

Step 6. Add Tidal Music to iTunes Library
Open iTunes on your computer, and click File > Add File to Library, then choose the downloaded Tidal music on the pop up window, after the Tidal songs are transferred to iTunes library successfully, you can enjoy your Tidal Music on Apple TV for offline listening.

Conclusion

It's very cheerful to play Tidal on Apple TV, you may use both methods above. For the official method, you need to subscribe to Tidal to stream music on Apple TV. For those who want to cancel their Tidal subscription, the second way is more preferable. UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter can easily download and convert Tidal music to MP3 or FLAC to play on Apple TV, you are no longer to limited to listen to Tidal music within the Tidal app, UkeySoft makes it possible to listen to Tidal music on Apple TV freely without subscription.

Chester

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.

Chester

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.

Chester

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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