Idk what the other two are saying because Tidal HiFi is an unofficial client that let’s you reproduce high quality music, being basically the only one that let’s you do it on Linux. Yeah it’s a web wrapper but with HiFi enabled or whatever, I don’t really remember but the default web version doesn’t have HiFi and the app does and it’s noticeable.
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rtxn@lemmy.world 1 month agoDoes Tidal have a lightweight Linux client that’s kept up-to-date?
fushuan@lemm.ee 1 month ago
towerful@programming.dev 1 month ago
Unfortunately, I’ve only found a wrapped up web client thing. Using the web page is probably similar.
The wrapped up web client works better than the native client on windows, tho. Not sure on sound quality, I haven’t had an issue tho
fushuan@lemm.ee 1 month ago
If you are talking about Tidal HiFi, the UI might be similar to the web version but apparently itbruns on a modified version of chrome that allows HiFi music? I did test it some months ago and the quality difference is noticeable.
towerful@programming.dev 1 month ago
Yeh, the electron wrapped Tidal HiFi for Linux. I just checked the GitHub, and it says it supports High and Max settings thanks to Widevine.
I swapped from Spotify to Tidal on windows and was blown away. Shortly after I started daily-driving Linux. I haven’t done an A/B between the Linux electron version and the windows desktop version, but it hasn’t annoyed me like Spotify did.fushuan@lemm.ee 1 month ago
According to another commenter chromium on Linux is hard capped on quality, so although it’s noticeable vs the web version, it’s not actual Max quality. I haven’t noticed it although my headphones should be able to show the difference (sony MDR 7506, I know, yes, for everything, people say that it doesn’t sound nice, I don’t care I love it) so idk.
Codilingus@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Tidal on Linux is a crap shoot, which sucks because pipewire is awesome for HiRes music since it can change sample rate on the fly to match a source. Best bet is Firefox and their web player, and using the middle tier “high” that’s blue colored, and letting pipewire play @ 44100
fushuan@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Check this web player wrapper, it allows for high and Max quality
github.com/Mastermindzh/tidal-hifi?tab=readme-ov-…
Codilingus@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
That runs on chromium, which in Linux is HARD locked to 48000, so every single song will be resampled.