I know this is kind of baby pirate knowledge but ive always just used a downloader for my streaming service. I have since moved to Linux entirely (massive win BTW, patting myself on the back for that) but there is no Linux-compatible downloader for my specific service. At least not one with the bulk functionality I would like. Any downloaders for Tidal or other sources of high-quality audio, likely to have some relatively niche old death metal? I’m a nerd about the quality.
edit: Just looked at the megathread and there seems to be some tools compatible with Tidal. Regardless, are there any applications that are alternatives? I’d like to see ALL of my options <3
What’s going on here? Is it just pulling from someone’s Tidal account?
Yes. The search results and music files are coming directly from Tidal, using someone else’s account. If you look in the network tab in the browser’s dev tools, you’ll see requests to Tidal.
Interesting design, since it’s trivial for Tidal to block something like this - they can see that the requests are coming from that site. I’m surprised they haven’t blocked it.
If you see requests to tidal in your browser - they’re not going there from the server, are they :)
Tidal would be seeing their site URL in the referer for the network requests.
They must be doing some voodoo since Tidal doesn’t let you use the same account for multiple concurrent streams.
My guess is that they’d have a pool of accounts, and cache the most popular songs rather than streaming them from Tidal every time.