A tool to wave at the TIDAL music service.
Project description
tidal-wave
Waving at the TIDAL music service with Python. Runs on (at least) Windows, macOS, and GNU/Linux.
TIDAL is an artist-first, fan-centered music streaming platform that delivers over 100 million songs in HiFi sound quality to the global music community. © 2024 TIDAL Music AS
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.
This software uses libraries from the FFmpeg project under the LGPLv2.1. FFmpeg is a trademark of Fabrice Bellard, originator of the FFmpeg project.
Features
- Retrieve 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 retrieved
- Album covers and artist images are retrieved by default
- Support for albums with multiple discs
- If available, lyrics are added as metadata to tracks
- If available, album reviews are retrieved as JSON
- Video retrieval support
- Playlist retrieval support (video or audio or both)
- Mix retrieval support (video or audio)
- Artist's entire works retrieval support (video and audio; albums or albums and EPs and singles)
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 retrieve in 16-bit, 44.1 kHz (i.e., lossless) or lower quality as well as videos. More information on sound quality at TIDAL's site here.
Requirements
- 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. The container image as well as the
pyinstaller
-created binary for GNU/Linux, binary for Apple Silicon macOS, binary for x86_64 macOS build FFmpeg from source, so separate installation is unnecessary.- Static builds are available from John Van Sickle for GNU/Linux, or most package managers feature
ffmpeg
. - For macOS, the FFmpeg download page links to this download source, or there is always Homebrew
- For Windows, the FFmpeg download page lists 2 resources; or
chocolatey
is an option
- Static builds are available from John Van Sickle for GNU/Linux, or most package managers feature
- This is a Python package, so to use it in the default manner you will need Python 3, version 3.8 or newer, on your system.
- However, as of version 2023.12.10, an OCI container image;
pyapp
-compiled binaries; andpyinstaller
-created binaries for x86_64 GNU/Linux, Apple Silicon macOS, and x86_64 macOS are provided for download and use that do not require Python installed
- However, as of version 2023.12.10, an OCI container image;
- Only a handful of Python libraries are dependencies:
Installation
pip
Install from PyPi
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]
pip
Install from the Repository
Alternatively, you can clone this repository; cd
into it; and install from there:
$ git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/ebb-earl-co/tidal-wave.git
$ cd tidal-wave
$ python3 -m venv .venv
$ source .venv/bin/activate
$ (.venv) pip install .
Pyinstaller
executable
This is the preferred release artifact, compiled with pyinstaller
. It bundles Python 3.11, FFmpeg 6.1.1, and the tidal-wave
program into one binary, licensed under the terms of FFmpeg: with the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) version 2.1. Installation is as simple as downloading the correct binary for your platform (currently, GNU/Linux x86_64; macOS x86_64; or macOS arm64), giving it execute permissions, and running it.
$ wget https://github.com/ebb-earl-co/tidal-wave/releases/latest/download/tidal-wave_py311_FFmpeg6.1.1_linux
$ chmod +x ./tidal-wave_py311_FFmpeg6.1.1_linux
# optionally, rename the binary because the name is descriptive, but unwieldy
$ mv ./tidal-wave_py311_FFmpeg6.1.1_linux ./tidal-wave_linux
$ ./tidal-wave_linux --help
pyapp
executable
Download the Rust-compiled binary from the Releases, and, on macOS or GNU/Linux, make it executable
$ wget https://github.com/ebb-earl-co/tidal-wave/releases/latest/download/tidal-wave_py311.pyapp
$ chmod +x ./tidal-wave_py311.pyapp
Or, on Windows, once the .exe file is downloaded, you might have to allow a security exception for an unknown developer, then:
Invoke-WebRequest https://github.com/ebb-earl-co/tidal-wave/releases/latest/download/tidal-wave_py311_pyapp.exe
& "tidal-wave_py311_pyapp.exe" --help
Docker
Pull the image from GitHub container repo:
docker pull ghcr.io/ebb-earl-co/tidal-wave:latest
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 album or artist or mix or playlist or track or video to download [default: None] [required] │
│ output_directory [OUTPUT_DIRECTORY] The parent directory under which directory(ies) of files will be written [default: /home/${USER}/music/] │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
╭─ Options ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ --audio-format [360|Atmos|HiRes|MQA|Lossless|High|Low] [default: Lossless] │
│ --loglevel [DEBUG|INFO|WARNING|ERROR|CRITICAL] [default: INFO] │
│ --include-eps-singles No-op unless passing TIDAL artist. Whether to include artist's EPs and singles with albums │
│ --install-completion Install completion for the current shell. │
│ --show-completion Show completion for the current shell, to copy it or customize the installation. │
│ --help Show this message and exit. │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
Usage
By default, this tool can request (and, if no errors arise, retrieve) all of the audio formats except
HiRes
and360
.
The HiRes FLAC format is only available if the credentials from an Android, Windows, iOS, or macOS device can be obtained
The Sony 360 Reality Audio format is only available if the credentials from an Android or iOS device can be obtained
Invocation of this tool will store credentials in a particular directory in the user's "home" directory: for Unix-like systems, this will be /home/${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.
Example
- First, find the URL of the album/artist/mix/playlist/track/video desired. Then, simply pass it as the first argument to
tidal-wave
with no other arguments in order to: retrieve the album/artist/mix/playlist/track in Lossless quality to a subdirectory of user's music directory and INFO-level logging in the case of audio; retrieve the video in 1080p, H.264+AAC quality to a subdirectory of user's music directory with INFO-level logging in the case of a video URL.
(.venv) $ 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
(.venv) $ tidal-wave https://tidal.com/browse/track/... --audio-format atmos --loglevel debug
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
- 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:
$ ./tidal-wave.pyz 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 retrieving videos.
$ ./tidal-wave.pyz https://tidal.com/browse/video/...
- To (attempt to) get a playlist, the following will do that. N.b. passing anything to
--audio-format
is a no-op when retrieving videos.
> .\tidal-wave_py311_pyapp.exe https://tidal.com/browse/playlist/...
- To (attempt to) get a mix, the following will do that. N.b. passing anything to
--audio-format
is a no-op when retrieving videos.
$ ./tidal-wave_py311.pyapp https://tidal.com/browse/mix/...
- To (attempt to) get all of an artist's works (albums and videos, excluding EPs and singles) in Sony 360 Reality Audio format and verbose logging, the following will do that:
(.venv) $ python3 -m tidal_wave https://listen.tidal.com/artist/... --audio-format 360 --loglevel debug
- To (attempt to) get all of an artist's works (including EPs and singles), in HiRes format, the following will do that:
(.venv) $ tidal-wave https://listen.tidal.com/artist/... --audio-format hires --include-eps-singles
Docker example
The command line options are the same for the Python invocation, but in order to save configuration and audio data, volumes need to be passed. If they are bind mounts to directories, they must be created before executing docker run
to avoid permissions issues! For example,
$ mkdir -p ./Music/ ./config/tidal-wave/
$ docker run \
--rm -it \
--name tidal-wave \
--volume ./Music:/home/debian/Music \
--volume ./config/tidal-wave:/home/debian/.config/tidal-wave \
ghcr.io/ebb-earl-co/tidal-wave:latest \
https://tidal.com/browse/track/...
Using Docker might be an attractive idea in the event that you want to retrieve all of the videos, albums, EPs, and singles in highest quality possible for a given artist. The following Docker invocation will do that for you:
$ mkdir -p ./Music/ ./config/tidal-wave/
$ docker run \
--name tidal-wave \
--rm -it \
--volume ./Music:/home/debian/Music \
--volume ./config/tidal-wave:/home/debian/.config/tidal-wave \
ghcr.io/ebb-earl-co/tidal-wave:latest \
https://listen.tidal.com/artist/... \
--audio-format hires \
--include-eps-singles
Development
The easiest way to start working on development is to fork this project on GitHub, or clone the repository to your local machine and do the pull requesting on GitHub later. In any case, there will need to be some getting from GitHub first, so, roughly, the process is:
- Get Python 3.8+ on your system
- Use a virtualenv or some other Python environment system (poetry, pipenv, etc.)
- Clone the repository:
$ git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/ebb-earl-co/tidal-wave/git
* Obviously replace the URL with your forked version if you've followed that strategy
- Activate the virtual environment and install the required packages (requirements.txt):
(some-virtual-env) $ python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt
* optional packages to follow the coding style and build process; `shiv`, `black`: `(some-virtual-env) $ python3 -m pip install shiv black`
* optionally, Rust and cargo in order to build the `pyapp` artifacts
* optionally, Docker to build the OCI container artifacts
- From a Python REPL (or, my preferred method, an iPython session), import all the relevant modules, or the targeted ones for development:
from tidal_wave import album, artist, dash, hls, login, main, media, mix, models, oauth, playlist, requesting, track, utils, video
from tidal_wave.main import *
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