How to Play Tidal on Raspberry Pi

By Justin SabrinaUpdated on April 07, 2023

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Question: "I upgraded to the Tidal HiFi plan and downloaded some Tidal songs on my Samsung phone. I'm wondering if it is possible to move these Tidal downloads to the Raspberry Pi? If not, how can I transfer Tidal to Raspberry Pi? Thanks." - Ceci

The Raspberry Pi is a small but fantastic maker board for entertainment. It is a single-board computer (SBC) and regarded as a multimedia and gaming machine, and a home server. If you are one of Tidal music users and looking for a way to stream Tidal on Raspberry Pi, you should read this post carefully. In this, article, we will teach you an easy way to play Tidal on Raspberry Pi.

Can You Use Tidal on Raspberry Pi Directly?

Tidal Connect comes to the Raspberry Pi via Volumio. Certainly, you can setup TIDAL Connect on Volumio using a Raspberry Pi. But you are required a Volumio Premium (6.49 € billed monthly) to use this feature. Is there another way to play Tidal on Raspberry Pi or transfer Tidal to Raspberry Pi? The Answer is positive. It is generally known that Raspberry Pi supports to play local files via USB drive. If you could save Tidal songs to USB drive, then you will be able to use Tidal on Raspberry Pi.

However, Tidal is not designed to download music in MP3 format. What you can do is activate the "Download" feature and "Offline Mode" via your Tidal HiFi / Tidal HiFi Plus subscription. All music tracks from Tidal are DRM encrypted format. Tidal users are not authorized to play Tidal music outside the Tidal app/ web player. Even you've download Tidal songs to your mobile device, you cannot take any song out of Tidal app. So how do you transfer Tidal music to USB drive for playing in Raspberry Pi? Don't worry, here we would recommend you a powerful Tidal music downloader tool - UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter.

Best Tool to Play Tidal on Raspberry Pi

UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter is quite different and improved than other brands on the market. With no need to install the Tidal app, UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter enables users to download any song, playlist, album, artist and radio from Tidal Web Player to local computer. What's more, it supports to convert Tidal music to MP3/AAC/M4A/WAV/FLAC/AIFF at 10X speed. And There is no need to worry the output quality, as UkeySoft will keep 100% lossless music quality and ID3 tags, like artist, song title, album, artwork, genre, etc.

After conversion, you will find the converted Tidal music files on the local folder. Thus, you can copy these converted Tidal songs to a USB drive for playing on Raspberry Pi. Better yet, you could transfer Tidal songs to SD card, MP3 player, iOS, Android phone and tablet, PSP, etc.

Main Features of UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter:

• Download music from Tidal HiFi, Tidal HiFi Plus and Tidal Free.
• Download Tidal songs, albums, playlists, artists to computer.
• Convert Tidal music to MP3, M4A, AAC, WAV, FLAC, AIFF.
• Keep original music quality and all ID3 tags info after conversion.
• Sort output Tidal songs by artist, album, artist/album, album/artist.
• Support batch conversion and up to 10X faster speed.
• Transfer Tidal songs to USB for playback on Raspberry Pi, smart speakers, smart TVs, game consoles, etc.
• Play Tidal music on any portable device, media player, apps without limit.

Tutorial on How to Convert Tidal to Raspberry Pi

Step 1. Sign in to Your Tidal Account on UkeySoft
After installation, open UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter on your computer or Mac. Then log in to your Tidal account on UkeySoft.

Step 2. Set the Output Format and Audio Quality
Click on the "Gear" icon on the top right corner, then a settings window pops up. Here you can set the output format, output quality, output folder, language, organize the output files, etc.

To transfer Tidal music to USB drive, you can select MP3 format and 320kbps quality.

Step 3. Choose Tidal Songs/Playlist/Album
In Tidal Home page, select any track, playlist, album, or artist and open it, click the red "+" icon in the right side.

UkeySoft will import all songs of the playlist/album/artist by default. If you don't want to convert all of them, just unselect the ones.

Step 4. Convert Tidal Music to MP3
Hit on the "Convert" button to download and convert all selected Tidal songs to unprotected MP3 files.

After conversion, you can find the output Tidal songs by clicking the "History" button, or go to the output folder directly.

Step 5. Transfer the Converted Tidal Songs to USB Drive
Now insert a USB flash disk to the USB port of your computer, copy and paste the converted Tidal songs to the USB. When finished, safely remove your USB flash drive from computer.

Step 6. Play Tidal on Raspberry Pi via USB Drive
Great, you can now connect your USB drive to the Raspberry Pi port. Begin to play Tidal music on Raspberry Pi!

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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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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