tidal-wave 2023.12.8

A tool to wave at the TIDAL music service.

tidal-wave

Waving at the TIDAL music service. Runs on (at least) Windows, macOS, and GNU/Linux.

This project is inspired by qobuz-dl, and, particularly, is a continuation of Tidal-Media-Downloader. This project is intended for private use only: it is not intended for distribution of copyrighted content

Features

• Download FLAC, Dolby Atmos, Sony 360 Reality Audio, or AAC tracks; AVC/H.264 (up to 1920x1080) + AAC videos
• Either a single track or an entire album can be downloaded
• Album covers and artist images are downloaded by default
• Support for albums with multiple discs
• If available, lyrics are added as metadata to tracks
• If available, album reviews are downloaded as JSON
• Video download support
• Playlist download support (video or audio or both)

Getting Started

A HiFi Plus account is required in order to retrieve HiRes FLAC, Dolby Atmos, and Sony 360 Reality Audio tracks. Simply a HiFi plan is sufficient to download in 16-bit, 44.1 kHz (i.e. lossless) or lower quality as well as videos.

Requirements

• This is a Python tool, so you will need Python 3 on your system: this tool supports Python 3.8 or newer.
• As resources will be fetched from the World Wide Web, an Internet connection is required
• The excellent tool FFmpeg is necessary for audio file manipulation. It is available from almost every package manager; or static builds are available from John Van Sickle.
  • For Windows, the FFmpeg download page lists 2 resources; or chocolatey is an option
• Only a handful of Python libraries are dependencies:
  • dataclass-wizard
  • ffmpeg-python
  • mutagen
  • m3u8
  • platformdirs
  • requests
  • typer

Installation

Install this project with pip: either with a virtual environment (preferred) or any other way you desire:

$ python3 -m pip install tidal-wave

Optionally, to get the full typer experience when using this utility, add [all] to the end of the pip install command:

$ python3 -m pip install tidal-wave[all]

Alternatively, you can clone this repository; cd into it; and install from there:

$ git clone https://github.com/ebb-earl-co/tidal-wave.git
$ cd tidal-wave
$ python3 -m venv .venv
$ source .venv/bin/activate
$ (.venv) pip install .

As yet another option, if you don't want to mess with pip, you can download the .pyz artifact in the releases page. It is a binary created using the shiv project and is used in the following way:

# download the .pyz file of the latest (or your desired) release
$ python3 tidal-wave_<VERSION>.pyz --help

Quickstart

Run python3 tidal-wave --help to see the options available. Or, if you followed the repository cloning steps above, run python3 -m tidal_wave --help from the repository root directory, tidal-wave. In either case, you should see something like the following:

Usage: tidal-wave [OPTIONS] TIDAL_URL [OUTPUT_DIRECTORY]                                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                                                            
╭─ Arguments ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ *    tidal_url             TEXT                The Tidal track or album or video to download [default: None] [required]                                                                  │
│      output_directory      [OUTPUT_DIRECTORY]  The parent directory under which files will be written; i.e. output_directory/<artist name>/<album name>/ [default: ]                     │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
╭─ Options ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ --audio-format        [360|Atmos|HiRes|MQA|Lossless|High|Low]         [default: Lossless]                                                                                                │
│ --loglevel            [DEBUG|INFO|WARNING|ERROR|CRITICAL]             [default: INFO]                                                                                                    │
│ --help                                                                Show this message and exit.                                                                                        │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

Usage

By default, this tool can request (and, if no errors arise, retrieve) all of the audio formats except HiRes and 360.

The HiRes FLAC format is only available if the credentials from an Android, Windows, iOS, or macOS device can be obtained

The Sony 360 Reality Audio format is only available if the credentials from an Android or iOS device can be obtained

Invocation of this tool will store credentials in a particular directory in the user's "home" directory: for Unix-like systems, this will be /home/${USER}/.config/tidal-wave: for Windows, it varies: in either OS situation, the exact directory is determined by the user_config_path() function of the platformdirs package.

Similarly, all media retrieved is placed in subdirectories of the user's default Music directory: for Unix-like systems, this probably is /home/${USER}/Music; for Windows it is probably C:\Users\<USER>\Music. This directory is determined by platformdirs.user_music_path().

• If a different path is passed to the second CLI argument, output_directory, then all media is written to subdirectories of that directory.
• Even videos are downloaded here (for now) for simplicity

Example

• First, find the URL of the track or album ID desired. Then, simmply pass it as the first argument to tidal-wave with no other arguments to: download the track/album in Lossless quality to a subdirectory of user's music directory and INFO-level logging.

$ python3 tidal-wave https://tidal.com/browse/track/226092704

• To (attempt to) get a Dolby Atmos track, and you desire to see all of the log output, the following will do that

$ python3 tidal-wave https://tidal.com/browse/track/... --audio-format atmos --loglevel debug

• To (attempt to) get a HiRes FLAC version of an album, and you desire to see only warnings and errors, the following will do that:

$ python3 tidal-wave https://tidal.com/browse/album/... --audio-format hires --loglevel warning

• To (attempt to) get a video, the following will do that. N.b. passing anything to --audio-format is a no-op when downloading videos.

$ python3 tidal-wave https://tidal.com/browse/video/...

• To (attempt to) get an entire playlist, the following will do that. N.b. passing anything to --audio-format is a no-op when downloading videos.

$ python3 tidal-wave https://tidal.com/browse/playlist/...

Keep in mind that authentication from an Android (preferred), iOS, Windows, or macOS device will need to be extracted and passed to this tool in order to access HiRes FLAC and Sony 360 Reality Audio versions of tracks