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