How to Download FLAC from Tidal

Stevie
3 min readAug 25, 2022

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Tidal is a music streaming service that offers high-quality audio. If you’re an audiophile, you may want to download FLAC files from Tidal so you can listen to your music at the highest quality possible. Unfortunately, Tidal does not make it easy to download FLAC files.

However, there are a few steps you can take to download FLAC files from Tidal. First, you’ll need to use a third-party service, like NoteBurner Tidal Music to FLAC Converter, to download the files. Once you get that Tidal downloader, you’ll need to add Tidal playlists to it, choose the FLAC output format, then you can directly download FLAC files from Tidal via this tool. With a little effort, you can download FLAC files from Tidal and enjoy your music at the highest quality possible.

Step 1 Add Tidal Music FLAC Songs

Launch NoteBurner Tidal Music Converter, and it will launch the Tidal app automatically. Simply drag and drop a single song, playlist or album from Tidal app to NoteBurner, tick on the Tidal songs you want to convert to FLAC, and click “OK”.

Step 2 Select FLAC Output Format

Click the “Setting” gear icon at top right, where you’re able to choose conversion mode, output format (MP3/AAC/WAV/FLAC/AIFF/ALAC), output quality, output path, and so on. Don’t forget to choose “FLAC output format” for your Tidal Music titles.

Tips: Choose “Playlist Index” in the output file name settings, NoteBurner will help to save the same song order as your original Tidal playlist.

Step 3 Convert Tidal Music to FLAC

After customization, click the button “Convert” and NoteBurner will download Tidal playlists to FLAC with original quality & ID3 tags kept.

Step 4 Find Offline Tidal FLAC Files

Once finished, click the “Converted” tab, hover to the history list, and click “Folder”. Then you’ll be directed to the Tidal audio files saved in FLAC format.

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