A TIDAL desktop client for Linux built on top of the official web client, but with MPRIS support for desktop integration.
Install Google Chrome from your repositories first. Then install the dependencies (chromedriver and setuptools) with the following (adjust accordingly for your distribution):
# apt install chromium-chromedriver python3-setuptools python3-selenium
You can use the following to install the official chromedriver binary if you use the official Google Chrome rather than Chromium. The exact Chrome binary can be set using a preferences file.
# pip3 install chromedriver_installer
Then, ensure that the Python 3 module setuptools is installed with one of the following commands:
# pacman -S python-setuptools
# apt install python3-setuptools
# pip3 install --upgrade setuptools
Then, install the main module with:
# python3 setup.py install
# update-mime-database /usr/share/mime
# xdg-mime install /usr/share/applications/tidal-google-chrome.desktop
- Launch
TIDALin your application launcher or runtidal-chromein your favourite terminal. - A new Chrome window will be opened. Sign in to TIDAL.
- Play some music.
The tidal-chrome executable accepts command line options and searches for a configuration file with the
default path of ~/.config/tidal-chrome-prefs.json. This path can be changed with the --conf command
line argument. You can run tidal-chrome --create-conf to create the default JSON configuration file.
First, ensure you have chromedriver installed. The chromedriver_installer pip package must be manually installed.
If the TIDAL webpage is stuck at the loading image, then try clearing the cache. The easiest way to do this is to
close all app windows and delete the user data folder ~/.config/tidal-google-chrome.