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[REQUEST] foo_tidal

Greetings, dear forum members.

As I wrote recently, I am currently in emigration and am having trouble accessing my extensive library. To compensate for this, I am thinking of different ways. At first I tried to organize my own HTTP server, but in Kazakhstan the internet is so laggy that the single stream download that foobar2000 uses by default from my VPS is slower than the FLAC stream speed. That's why there are often stutters and it's impossible to listen.

My further searches led to the project https://github.com/Nem-git/tidal I tried downloading the track and it really works! As they say, without registration and SMS.

Unfortunately I am not good at C and C++, so I would like to ask someone to create a plugin for foobar based on this code to stream directly from Tidal server. I know there was a foo_spotify plugin, but first of all Spotify doesn't support loesslass, secondly the API is outdated and doesn't work anymore.

Re: [REQUEST] foo_tidal

Reply #1 –
No idea about a streaming component, but seeing the official tidal API and other wrappers it's certainly possible to download full lossless tracks as long as you have a paid account and it can be integrated easily into JS.

i.e. it could be included in the foo_youtube component as an alternative to youtube streaming which is lower quality, or in Find & Play SMP script, etc.

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Reply #2 –
As I have already written, this script does not require any registration and entering your account. I don't know if it always works or sometimes fails, I found it only recently. But I tried downloading the track and no account was required for me to do that. And if a track can be downloaded, that means it can at least be stored in memory and played from there.

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Reply #3 –
I know what you wrote. You should also know that it's impossible to get tracks for free from tidal unless you got an account so... you are using someone else's account/api key under the hood :) Until it gets blocked.

Also I don't expect any dev to implement that, since that's essentially piracy. Not that I'm against it, just saying it's not probable xd
 

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Reply #4 –
Also peeps asked about a Deezer component. Which runs into similar thing as Spotify, minus all the kernel level DRM.