Tidal

What works

Logging in

Download and playback of "Normal" and "High" (lossy) quality tracks

What does not

Download of "Hi-Fi" and "Master" (lossless) quality tracks. Upon investigation, it appears that the problem is due to unsupported functions in 'wininet' and 'urlmon'. Both Wine and Winetricks versions were tried.

ALSA device exclusive mode. Attempting to enable exclusive mode yields an "Unknown error while attempting to select device"

Workarounds

The installer complains that it "cannot run as Administrator", even when Wine Staging 'runas' is used, so the files were copied from an existing Windows install.

Wine must report "Windows Vista" as system version, otherwise the window will be blank.

What was not tested

MQA decoding, since Master tracks won't download.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU: AMD
• Driver: open source

Additional Comments

• WINEPREFIX="/{path-to-prefixes}/.tidal" WINEARCH=win32 wine wineboot
• WINEPREFIX="/{path-to-prefixes}/.tidal" WINEARCH=win32 winetricks corefonts (unnecessary?)
• WINEPREFIX="/{path-to-prefixes}/.tidal" WINEARCH=win32 winetricks dotnet45 (installer attempts an install if this is missing.)
• WINEPREFIX="/{path-to-prefixes}/.tidal" WINEARCH=win32 winecfg

        Set the Windows version to Windows 10

• WINEPREFIX="/{path-to-prefixes}/.tidal" WINEARCH=win32 wine '/home/{username}/Downloads/TIDALSetup.exe'

        One guide says to use Wine runas to force installation as a non elevated user, I skipped this.

TidalDesktop launches with only a black screen.

• WINEPREFIX="/{path-to-prefixes}/.tidal" WINEARCH=win32 winetricks vcrun2015 (unnecessary?)

Hardware Acceration disabled.

This requires some blind navigation. Tidal will launch with a black screen, take your mouse pointer to the top left corner an experiment until the pointer turns to a pointing hand and finger, there will then be a clickable item under your pointer. A left click should open the menu (which should be visible) select Help | Troubleshooting | Disable Hardware Acceleration. The app will pop up a confirmation dialog (again this should be visible) click OK and the app will restart fully visible.