Tidal Connect: How to Use

By Justin SabrinaUpdated on December 17, 2022

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Tidal is the perfect streaming music platform for audiophiles. It allows HiFi users to stream music with high fidelity audio quality, even Master Quality Audio, Dolby Atmos and Sony 360 Reality Audio (HiFi Plus users). Thanks to the Tidal Connect feature, you can now stream Tidal music to your devices or speakers over Wi-Fi. What is Tidal Connect and how to use it? In this post, you will learn more about Tidal Connect feature, and use it to stream Tidal device. In addition, you will have opportunity to enjoy Tidal music on any device.

CONTENTS

Part 1. Everything You Need to Know About Tidal Connect

What is Tidal Connect?

Tidal Connect is an easy way to connect your devices to Tidal. Different from Apple AirPlay and Bluetooth, Tidal Connect allows you to stream your Tidal catalogue to any Tidal Connect-enabled device over Wi-Fi. Actually, it works as same as Google Chromecast, a casting service. In short, it enables Tidal HiFi members to stream music more conveniently at top-quality.

Who can use Tidal Connect?

Currently, the Tidal Connect feature is only available for Tidal HiFi and Tidal HiFi Plus subscribers. Tidal Free users can't play music with Tidal Connect.

Which Devices Support Tidal Connect?

Currently, Tidal Connect is available on most devices and speakers. You can use Tidal Connect from any iOS devices running iOS 13 or higher, Android devices running Android 6.0 or higher handset, or any Desktop for Mac or Windows.

It is compatible with some well-known speaker brands such as Cambridge Audio, Dali, Bluesound, Matrix Audio, McIntosh, Naim, etc.

Note: Tidal Connect can only run on one device at a time.

How to Use TIDAL Connect?

To use Tidal Connect, you need a mobile phone, tablet or computer with the Tidal app installed, and a compatible Tidal Connect device. Also, a Tidal HiFi (Plus) subscription is required.

For Smartphones and Tablets:

- Open the Tidal mobile app, find the songs, album or podcast you like and play it.
- Click the device speaker icon at the top-right corner of the "Now Playing" screen.
- Select a TIDAL Connect-enabled speaker from the list. Then you can listen to Tidal music on the conneted device.

For Mac and Windows PC:

- Launch the Tidal desktop app, choose a song and play it.
- Select the speaker icon at the bottom-right of your screen.
- You will see a list of Tidal Connect enabled speakers and devices.
- Just choose one and then your music will start playing on the connected device.

Note: Make sure your device with the Tidal app is connected to the same wi-fi network as any device you're trying to stream to.

Part 2. Best Tidal Connect Alternative - Tidal Music Downloader

TIDAL CONNECT make it possible to cast the music to your preferred hardware without any quality loss. But you can only play Tidal music on one device at a time. Also, what if Tidal Connect is out of control? To avoid these situations, you need to download Tidal music as local file. Fortunately, there are many third-party Tidal music downloaders that can help you download Tidal music to MP3. Here we highly recommend UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter.

UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter is a well-known Tidal music downloader and converter. It not only supports to download music from Tidal Free, Tidal HiFi and Tidal HiFi Plus, but also can convert Tidal music to MP3, FLAC, WAV, AAC, M4A, AIFF format with ID3 tags kept. With the built-in Tidal Web Player, you can select and add any Tidal song, album, artist or playlist to the software from the web player, no need to install and use the Tidal desktop app.

Amazingly, it can work at up to 10X faster speed when downloading Tidal music, but no any audio quality loss. With it, you can save Tidal songs on local computer, and transfer Tidal songs to any device or player for offline playing, such as MP3 player, iPod, smartphone, tablet, smart speakers, iTunes, WMP, etc.

Features of UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter:

• Support Tidal Free, Tidal HiFi & Tidal HiFi Plus users.
• Download Tidal music to computer at 10X faster speed.
• Easily dowload Tidal tracks, albums, artist and playlists.
• Convert Tidal music to MP3/AAC/M4A/WAV/FLAC/AIFF.
• Keep Hi-Fi audio quality of Tidal music after the conversion.
• Remain ID3 tags and organize output songs by album, artist.
• Batch download; Built-in Tidal Web Player and Music Player.
• Play Tidal music on any device and player without subscription.

How to Download Tidal Music to MP3?

Step 1. Log in Tidal Account in UkeySoft
Download and install UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter for you Mac or Windows PC. Double-click the software to open it. Click "Log in" to sign in with your Tidal account.

Step 2. Set Output Format and Parameters
Next, tap on the gear icon to open the settings window. You can set the output format (choose MP3), output quality, output folder, output file name, language, etc.

If necessary, you can sort out the out Tidal song by album or artist.

Step 3. Import Tidal Playlist to UkeySoft
Go to the Tidal catalogue, open a Tidal playlist, album, artist or track, and tap on the "+" icon to add the song.

In the next window, all music tracks in the Tidal playlist/album/artist will be listed. You can remove the ones you don't want to save.

Step 4. Start to Download Tidal Music to MP3
Finally, press on the "Convert" button, then UkeySoft will immediately download Tidal songs and converted to MP3 files with lossless quality.

After that, you can locate the output Tidal songs by clicking the "History" icon. You can play any Tidal song with the built-in music player in the software!

Conclusion

The Tidal Connect enables Tidal HiFi members to stream Tidal music on most devices directly. But HiFi users are limited to play Tidal music on one device at a time. And the Tidal Free users can't use the Tidal Connect feature. Furthermore, if you stop your subscription from Tidal, you will no longer enjoy this feature and loss access all Tidal HiFi music tracks. To keep Tidal HiFi music forever, stream Tidal music on multiple devices at once, and enjoy Tidal music on any device without the Tidal app, you can consider this powerful UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter. With it, you can easily and quickly download and convert Tidal music to MP3 audio files with high quality. So then you may enjoy Tidal music everywhere!

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

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.

Justin Sabrina

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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