Does Tidal (or any other streaming service) work currently on Strawberry?
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Hi!
The <RANT> part: (not aimed at Strawberry at all, but about streaming services!)
I'm tired of current streaming services poor support for Linux desktop environments. Currently I'm using Qobuz - and it's electron based application only works via Wine, does not integrate at all with my DE, and uses way too many CPU resources (and despite promises, Qobuz has not delivered a native Linux client - and even if they did, I'll bet it will have poor desktop integration, in case they'd actually deliver).
I still remember the MQA-snakeoil fiasco Tidal was a part of, and have a kind of lack of trust on Tidal (...and the "HiFi"-industry at large. It's sad but money can make bull*t walk).
Now this brings up an obvious need: I'd like to find a streaming service which works well on my choice of daily driver for an OS. I'm afraid that's too much to ask... Spotify used to be (and probably still is) the best choice in terms of UI/integration (comparing the official applications). I'd yet prefer the slim resource use and the simple, most user friendly UI of Strawberry =).
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Which brings us to the question of the title - does Tidal currently work on Strawberry? I realize it is a lot of work to get any streaming service to work on strawberry. The service providers are not actually forthcoming or welcoming FOSS third party clients.
In case any other streaming service I may have overlooked can be made to work, I'd like to know! AFAIK Qobuz can not be made to work as they will not give individual API tokens for users anymore.
I'm seriously considering just buying music the old-fashioned way, but a streaming service would still fill a niche for discovering new music and parties / jukebox use.
Cheers!
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@WildPenguin
Tidal integration works, but you need a client ID (API key) from an official Tidal Application which uses unencrypted streams. We can't share the keys publicly, then Tidal will just revoke them. -
@jonas, thank you!
I also only presumed Qobuz will be a can of worms to get the key (which it is). But after a few google searches I realized there are solutions I can work with. So I'm going to continue with Qobuz for the time being.
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This drives me crazy. There are solutions to this. Why hasn't anyone contacted this guy? I can use the Qobuz tokens his program generates, but the Tidal ones don't work; however, he may be able provide guidance on that.
