tidal-cli-client is an open-source Tidal client for your linux terminal. You can finally listen to your favourite tracks without any web wrappers and flash. With your loved terminal. <3
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I'm 14 years old passionated JS developer and this app is a big success for me. I would appreciate every donation.
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The app is now completly rewritten. Most of the new features are:
Installation sources:
Arch Linux:
Other distros:
It is prefered to install tidal-cli-client
package from npm using command sudo npm -g i tidal-cli-client@latest
. After installation you can run app from anywhere using command tidal-cli
.
If you don't want to use npm installation you can clone this repo. Then you install other dependencies with npm install
and run with npm run app
.
You must have MPV and W3M installed. On some systems you'll also need to check, if you have got w3m-img, because it is not always installed directly with w3m.
When you open app for the first time you can see a form. Input username (first) and password (second) to the boxes and submit. Then it loads the main app.
To change focus from one item to another, press tab
.
On the bottom of the app there is a green bar. When you press :
it automatically focuses itself. Most of the navigation in the app is based on this text input. The list of commands is as follows:
Command | Description | Example |
---|---|---|
search |
Searches for a query specified after space | search Led Zeppelin |
queue |
Opens tracks queue panel, where you can view and edit playback queue | queue |
pause |
Pauses playback | pause |
resume |
Resumes playback | resume |
skip |
Skips a number of tracks in queue specified after space | skip 3 |
next |
Works as skip 1 |
resume |
shuffle |
Shuffles a tracks queue randomly | shuffle |
playlists |
Opens user playlists panel where you can view and play your playlists | playlists |
quit |
Quits from the app | quit |
You can press these keys at any point and they'll do their thing.
Shortcut | Description |
---|---|
F2 |
Opens actions input bar and automatically enters search . Then you can only enter your query |
n |
When focused on the list item or playback button adds focused element to the queue as next |
a |
When focused on the list item or playback button adds focused element to the queue as last |
l |
Play next track from queue. Works as next |
j |
When focused on the list, goes up |
k |
When focused on the list, goes down |
w |
When on the playback queue list, moves selected item up in queue |
s |
When on the playback queue list, moves selected item down in queue |
The apps config file is located in ~/.config/tidal-cli-client/app.json
. You can configure your shortcuts from there.
STYLES
object contains all of apps colors are located. You can customize them as you like with HEX color codes.
INPUT_BAR_ACTION
object contains all action bar actions are stored. You can edit their values to fit your preference.
SHORTCUTS
object contains all of apps shortcuts which you can customize as you wish.
Shortcut naming for Ctrl-(key) is C-(key), for function keys it's f(key)
Your login credentials are stored in ~/.config/tidal-cli-client/credentials.json
. You can edit this file if you want to.
USERNAME
is your username
PASSWORD
is your password
STREAM_QUALITY
is TIDAL's stream quality, either LOW
, HIGH
or LOSSLESS
.
If you want to help me with the development, create a fork on Github and clone it to your machine.
Call npm install
. After the work call npm run test
to check for any errors and the you can create a PR.