Tidal

What works

• The UI is generally fine.
• Music plays OK.
• Sound devices are exposed to the program properly, you can choose separate sound devices.
• Last.fm connection works with a caveat.
• Videos work with an asterisk, more on that later.

So mostly I'd say the app is OK.

What does not

• The major thing that I haven't been able to get around yet is not being able to play anything above High quality. Lossless and Master mixes do not play.
• Videos are super slow when in fullscreen mode - probably need to enable some kind of hardware acceleration.
• Last.fm connection works with a workaround.
• Menus are glitchy, but with a certain amount of back and forth can be made to work.

Workarounds

To connect Last.fm go through the usual process, and when you are at the stage when you get a browser with a window "This page can be closed now" or something, do the following:

• Do not close the page yet, do not close the running TIDAL instance.
• Note the token parameter from the URL of that page, it should be the last in the URL: token=abcdefgh123456
• Copy the abcdefgh123456 part.
• Open a new terminal, go to the prefix where you installed TIDAL. The executable should be in the folder drive_c/users/[YOUR_USERNAME]/AppData/Local/TIDAL.
• Change into that folder: cd /path/to/prefix/drive_c/users/[YOUR_USERNAME]/AppData/Local/TIDAL
• Run TIDAL again with the following parameter: env WINEPREFIX=/path/to/prefix wine TIDAL.exe tidal://lastfm/auth/abcdefgh123456 . 

What was not tested

I haven't tested Facebook login.

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.