Tidal music player for Linux

Posted on June 21, 2017

I found an awesome package called tidal-music-linux that wraps a Chromium web player in an Electron shell for a standalone Tidal player like on Windows. It’s written by Mathias Kahl.

It should work in either Ubuntu or Arch. A major drawback is that I haven’t gotten HiFi playback to work. It says HiFi is only allowed in Chrome. Maybe wrapping a Chrome player in Electron rather than a Chromium player would solve this. Regardless, here’s how to install if you’re okay with 320 kbps playback in a beautiful standalone application.

Arch Instructions

• Install Pepper Flash Player:
  • yaourt -S pepper-flash
• Install Adobe Flash Player:
  • Download the .tar.gz bundle from the link above
  • Move the .tar.gz bundle to usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin
    • mkdir /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin
    • sudo mv ~/Downloads/flash_player_ppapi_linux.x86_64.tar.gz /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin
• Install Node Package Manager (NPM)
  • sudo pacman -S npm
• Download
  • git clone https://github.com/Bunkerbewohner/tidal-music-linux
• Change name
  • Inside package.json the name “Tidal music - Linux” creates an install error, so change it to something like “tidal-music-linux”
    • gedit tidal-music-linux/package.json
    • Change the second line to “name”: “tidal-music-linux”
• Install
  • cd tidal-music-linux
  • npm install
• Run
  • npm start