Plex and Tidal: How to Better Play Tidal on Plex
Plex is a global media management platform that permits its users to organize personal media libraries. Users are able to control and access their own videos, movies, music from third-party distributors. Plex and Tidal integration arrived in 2018. Today, there are over 70 million diverse Tidal tracks, podcasts, etc. for Tidal fans to access via Plex's library.
But the mutual cooperation of Tidal and Plex is not 100% perfect. For example, users cannot use the "Offline Mode" of Tidal to download Tidal tracks to Plex mobile app. And Plex Tidal users cannot enjoy Tidal Master quality through the Plex and Tidal HiFi plan. Besides, "Tidal not Showing up in Plex" shows up frequently that troubles many users.
In this article, we will feature a guideline on how to solve these problems above and use Tidal on Plex without any difficulty.
Part 1. How to Get Tidal on Plex Better – Tool Required
The essence of all these problems is the use of the Plex Tidal app. To resolve these problems, we recommend replacing the Plex Tidal app with AudKit Tidal FLAC Downloader.
The program is good at downloading Tidal music playlists on the computer for local playback. Moreover, AudKit grants you to convert Tidal music to MP3, WAV, FLAC, M4A, etc. at 5X speed. It means that you are able to download, convert and import Tidal Master tracks to Plex for offline listening without using the Plex Tidal app.
Oh, don’t worry about the music quality. This top-notch Tidal music converter is qualified to keep 100% lossless HIFI or Master quality of Tidal tracks.
Part 2: How to Listen to Tidal on Plex Better – Step by Step
Step 1: Load Tidal tracks to AudKit
Start the AudKit software on your PC. The Tidal app will open. Select the song you want to download from Tidal. Right-click the selected song, and then click "Share" > "Copy Track Link". Go ahead and paste the link into AudKit's search, then click the "+" option to load the song.
Step 2: Reselect output format for Plex
Open the menu icon at the top right to access the "Preferences" option. Here, you can choose your preferred audio output and change some basic audio parameters, including audio channels, sample rate, and bit rate to improve sound quality.
Step 3: Convert and download Tidal songs for Plex
Click the "Convert" option at the bottom to activate the download process. It may take a while, relying on your internet speed. You can find the saved tidal songs by clicking the title > "search" icon.
Step 4. Import Tidal music to Plex
After locating the saved Tidal songs, please follow the steps below to add Tidal music to Plex.
1. Install and launch the Plex Media Server app. Log in to your account.
2. Hit the "Add Library" menu > "Music". Select the entire folder that saves tidal songs.
Now, you can enjoy and your loved Tidal songs on Plex without any problem at any time.
Conclusion
From the tutorial provided, it should be easy to improve the experience of playing Tidal on Plex with the use of AudKit Tidizer Music Converter. Especially if you want to offline listen to Tidal songs via Plex, Enjoy Tidal Master quality via Plex, and fix the "Tidal not Showing up in Plex" problem.