How to Play TIDAL on HomePod

By Li ZhangUpdated on December 16, 2022

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“I want to buy a HomePod device for listening Tidal Music, but I know that HomePod is just available for Apple Music and it is not compatible with Tidal app. Are there any solutions for playing Tidal on HomePod? Thanks in advance!”

Apple official always locks users into its own system. Homepod - Apple new smart speaker is no exception. You can only stream music on HomePod through an Apple Music subscription and iTunes music purchased, or the contents of iTunes match that uploaded to iCloud Music Library. As Apple smart speaker device, it is no doubt that HomePod is fully compatible with its own music streaming service, it couldn't be easier to ask Siri to play music on HomePod with Apple Music. Besides to Apple Music, HomePod supports iHeartRadio, Pandora, Deezer, and TuneIn.

However, there are some popular music streaming service are not supported by it, like Tidal, Spotify , YouTube Music, and Amazon Music. Does that mean it is no way to Play Tidal on HomePod? Absolutely not. You upload Tidal Music to iCloud Music Library, then directly play the music on HomePod connect with iCloud Music Library. Firstly you need to download and convert Tidal Music on computer and save it as local files.

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Part 1. Download Tidal Music for Adding to iCloud Music Library

To meet this goal, it is necessary to get help with UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter, which can download Tidal songs/playlists/albums/podcasts as local files at 10X faster speed, and save them as MP3, M4A, WAV, AAC, FLAC, AIFF. After that, you can import Tidal downloads to iCloud Music library, and play the Tidal Music on HomePod through iTunes library without limits. No matter you are a Tidal HiFi user or a Tidal free user, you can use UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter to download and convert Tidal Music contents with original sound quality and ID3 tags for offline playback on any device anywhere.

Features of UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter

• Download and convert Tidal Music to local files
• Batch convert Tidal Music to MP3/M4A/WAV/AAC/FLAC/AIFF formats
• Preserve with original ID3 tags and keep high quality
• Support to play Tidal Music on HomePod
• Offline playback Tidal Music on any devices
• 10X faster download speed
• Simple and user-friendly

Step 1. Install UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter and Log in
When UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter is installed on your computer, open it and enter the Tidal built-in Web Player to log in to your Tidal Music account.

Step 2. Set Output Parameters
Select the output format and other parameters of the output Tidal Music songs. You can click to gear icon on the right corner in main page and then enter Settings menu, the "Output Quality" and "Output Folder" can be changed here when you need. (Here you are suggested to select MP3 option since it is the widely used format that be compatible with most music device.)

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

When you add a playlist, all music contents in this playlist will be default selected, cull the music contents you don't like by ticking the checkbox.

Step 4. Download Tidal Music for Adding to iCloud Music Library
You can begin the music download and conversion by clicking "Convert", the music conversion process will be done within some minutes.

Step 5. Check Downloaded Tidal Music
Click "History" or open the Output Folder to locate all downloaded Tidal Music contents from UkeySoft program. You can also offline playback the songs on UkeySoft program without installing Tidal official app, since the program is built-in Tidal Music player.

Part 2. Add Downloaded Tidal Music to iCloud Music Library

To import downloaded Tidal Music to iCloud Music Library, you can follow the easy steps to do it. Sync Tidal Music to iCloud Music Library by switching "Sync Library" on. Here, we will take iTunes for Windows as example to show you the detailed process.

Step 1. Launch the iTunes app on Windows computer.

Step 2. Click "Edit" then "Preferences" in the menu bar of iTunes.

Step 3. In the "General" option turn on "Sync Library" and click the "OK" to confirm it.

Note: You need to subscribe to iTunes Match to activate the function, or you will not see the "Sync Library" option.

Conclusion

Our post have teach you how to download Tidal Music to local files using UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter, so that you are free to sync downloaded Tidal Music songs to iCloud Music Library via iTunes Match for offline playback on HomePod without limits, as they were Apple Music in your iTunes Music Library. What’s more, you can play Tidal Music offline on any device anywhere with its original high audio quality.

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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