Sorry to hijack this thread but can somebody tell/show me how to search from within the tidal and Qobuz plugins? I can’t see a search button anywhere
Yes I had noticed the original search bar! I thought it as only searching my personal library, I wasn’t aware I had to scroll right down to find the plugin search results, thanks for the reply though.
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If you select TIDAL from sources, then search, the search will be limited to TIDAL only 
Ahh ok I hadn’t thought of trying that, thanks boss for the tip 
Hello. I am reading that Tidal app is now fixed and all is ok? So how that I cant add new artist? I am using raspbery. It is 6 months since I use premium account and I see no improvements
The new TIDAL implementation is not public yet… If you want to give it a go see here:
In any case we are very close to releasing it for everyone
Good luck on that - it’s so broken I restart my player every 5 minutes now.
Hi,
Great to hear its being worked on. I’ve found another issue but I’ll report that in the main testing thread.
I’m really looking forward to the new Tidal implementation, I just started my 15 day trial and was hoping Tidal would be working better than it does.
It does work but still has bugs.
Hopefully they can get It working like the iPhone and Windows 10 app 
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Tidal Connect had been announced and launched in the past couple days. Some devices like the KEF LS50II Wireless are already delivering the ability to use it.
I’m new to Volumio and don’t have a clue what goes into making a plugin like this, I would love an update on what to expect. I’d 100% rather just use the Tidal native app and cast to my device (MiniDSP SHD). Thank you.
Comical to hear this sort of whining from an adult. What on earth to you expect a software developer to do with this feedback? You don’t like tidal; tell tidal. You expect the ui of a small project like Volumio to be like the tidal app itself, which is developed by a multi million $ organisation with hundreds of developers, that will never happen. Volumio is unbelievably good value for a multi platform os with the best ui of any comparable project that manages to integrate multiple sources. Tidal and and qobuz are a nightmare to work with as an open source project, they barely make their api available. You seem to want something for nothing. If you want better integration I suggest you either write the code yourself, pay a legion of developers to do it, or go and pay orders of magnitude more for a big vendor solution that will become abandoned by the vendor 3 years after you buy it. I have nothing to do with the volumio project, who have to remain constructive on this, as a user I am on sick of hearing childish whinging from people who expect their $5 volumio subscription to fix their whole life.
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I really should have posted an update to my message about not being able to get Tidal to work via Volumio. As another subscriber correctly suggested, it was a password problem. I don’t know why, as Tidal access via Volumio had been previously been fine, and I hadn’t changed any passwords. Anyway, ever since resolving the problem (three months ago), the Volumio/Tidal integration has worked absolutely perfectly. Volumio is the ‘headless player’ for my Raspberry Pi with Allo DigiOne ‘Signature’ S/PDIF board, which feeds the output signal to a high quality DAC, tube amp and electrostatic panel speakers. On a good recording, the sound is more than satisfying - even for a vinyl enthusiast. Thank you Michelangelo for Volumio. I much appreciate all the effort you put into making Volumio the fine resource that it is.
well, that’s great. after Spotify dropping their Unlimited Plan, i decided to try MyVolumio in combination with Tidal. Got myself the trial accounts, everything properly set up and logged in, tidal works from within Volumio, but no Tidal Connect.
So I even do a factory reset, completely wiping my 65GB worth of music data, and my customizations to the system, not only to find out that it still doesn’t work, but that currently it is not going to work at all, since apparently TC is not yet supported on the RP zero!
The Volumio team really needs to centralize such important information, instead of users having to browse individual threads in community forums. That’s okay for the free stuff, but if you want my money, you have got to deliver. So like the OP, I am cancelling my plans.
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Sorry to hear that. You are right we shall point out that tc won’t work on pi 0.
Side note, I really suggest to upgrade from pi zero to 4. For what it costs, the Volumio experience is so much better with pi 4
Curious why tc on pi0 isn’t supported… It took some extra effort during the buster migrations, but in the end managed to keep pi0 support, even though nodeJs has officially dropped support for it.
Also managed to cross compile all native modules for it, keeping one bundle for all pis. Perhaps look at the pi specific cross compilers for the foundation…
But if the plan is to drop support/have a separate image for the pi0, it would probably lead to better nodejs performance on newer pis, and make the build system much easier!
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The main TC library is provided by TIDAL, we are requesting an armv6 version.
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I have mixed feelings regards Volumio-Tidal integration. When using it on my RaspberryPi (and Volumio Virtuoso) I receive so terrible quality that it is beyond imagination. Perhaps Volumio team decided to differenciate levels of quality by level of cost - but why don’t you announce it openly? I would not bother than…
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That’s really weird, there is of course no limitation of sound quality for any plan (why should we do it?)
This sounds like another kind of issue, would you mind describing:
- Which PI model you have
- Which DAC you have
- If you have the same problem playing other kind of material
- Which kind of TIDAL account you have
Using PI v4. No separate DAC (other than my Yamaha integrated amplifier). Terrible quality loss I am experiencing only when using Tidal (HiFi) as a source over Volumio. The same architecture ea: source (NAS), Volumio on PI 4, Yamaha integrated Amplifier - works just fine.