Tidal-Media-Downloader-PRO VS freac

It's Tiesto's "BOOM" that I ripped from TIDAL using TIDAL Media Downloader. I included the MediaInfo, so you can check if it's real.

For TIDAL content, I use TIDAL Media Downloader to 🏴‍☠️ content that I want such as Dolby Atmos tracks. It can also tell you what quality an album, playlist or track is e.g. FLAC, E-AC3-JOC, or MPEG-H 3D.

go https://github.com/yaronzz/Tidal-Media-Downloader-PRO/releases

Tidal is excellent, but they tend not to have obscure artists. It also doesn't help in my case that some of the music I occasionally listen to is not streamable. Anyways, if you want to share the love with your users, Tidal-Downloader works pretty well for .flac acquisition. Now if only I could automate it and fix Tidal's metadata (it's also broken in their apps).

get the Tidal Media Downloader

Seconding basically everything that's been said here, but should you ever find yourself in need of a good file converter, I like and use fre:ac (www.freac.org), an open source Swiss army knife for audio formats.

That's a lot of steps! I believe there's FLAC rippers for Tidal, that may make it easier to use WebMD or SonicStage. I use https://www.freac.org/ to convert from FLAC (which I rip my CDs in) to WMA Lossless (which SonicStage can use) - Web Minidisc can use FLAC directly, as well.

You might want to use a tool like https://www.freac.org for the conversion.

I use fre:ac personally - https://www.freac.org

A lot of bootlegs are already ripped and available. wondering if the ones you have are the ones that are already available. you can download https://www.freac.org/ and rip em.

https://www.freac.org/ my go-to for a loooong time

What I was doing when I want 352k AT3+ files was to use https://www.freac.org/ to convert FLACs to WMA Lossless files which SonicStage 4.3 can read, then hook up the HiMD machines, pick the songs/album/whatever, and transfer them at 352k. It does the transcode on the fly but you can pick "fast" vs. "quality" modes, either should really be good but I did "quality" because the 10-year-old computer I'm doing it on should be 2-5x faster than an average computer in 2007 when SS4.3 was released so it's not that big of a deal.

If you need to convert FLAC/AAC/ALAC/whatever to a format SonicStage supports (LPCM WAV or lossless WMA) - you can use a tool like the Free Audio Converter (FRE:AC).

For lossless or high-resolution audio, I use a tool called FREAC to convert FLAC/ALAC and anything else SonicStage itself can't use to WMA Lossless, which gets you both proper metadata support and CD quality lossless files.

fre:ac does pretty much everything you could want: https://www.freac.org/