[QUESTION]: How to use newer Python code instead of tidal-dl.exe?

[queen4me]

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tidal-dl

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Since the tidal-dl Download is from 2022-08 I'd like to use the newer python code with windows and/or Linux. MAX seems to be enabled there 2 months ago. Where can I find a guide on how to use the newer code or do I have to compile it?

Thanks a lot in advance for helping

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[alonsoJS]

I run into this last week, the solution I found in Windows is installing tidal-dl into WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux)

What you'd do is:

• Install wsl and configure it (just basic username and pwd configuration)
• Get into wsl and install pip3
  • run sudo apt-get update
  • then run sudo apt install python3-pip
• run pip3 install tidal-dl --upgrade (this will install tidal-dl)
• Go to the folder you'd want your music be downloaded in the console
• run tidal-dl

Now you got the newer version!

[queen4me]

Thanks a lot. This should work with Ubuntu too, shouldn't it?

[romner-set]

The version from pip is still pretty old (you can tell by the Max option missing from the quality selection). To use the actual new version, you have to do this (tested on a proxmox LXC running debian, should work nearly anywhere though):

1. Make sure you have python3, git and pip installed
2. git clone https://github.com/yaronzz/Tidal-Media-Downloader --depth 1 somewhere to get the latest code
3. cd into Tidal-Media-Downloader/TIDALDL-PY
4. Install the requirements, something like pip3 install -r requirements.txt or python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt depending on how your system is setup. If you're doing this on windows, you will also have to install the MS VC++ build tools (see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40504552/how-to-install-visual-c-build-tools)
5. If everything is installed correctly, you should now be able to cd tidal_dl and run python3 __init.py__ or ./__init.py__ to start tidal-dl.

[queen4me]

Thanks a lot romner-set For those that want to follow: There's a typo in (3) cd into Tidal-Media-Downloader/TIDALDL-PY because the requirements.txt is in this directory.

Executing ./init.py leads to an ERROR: Permission denied. What can I do?

[queen4me]

It's working with python3 __init__.py

[romner-set]

For those that want to follow: There's a typo in (3) cd into Tidal-Media-Downloader/TIDALDL-PY because the requirements.txt is in this directory.

You're right, edited my comment to fix it.

Executing ./init.py leads to an ERROR: Permission denied. What can I do?

It's probably not executable even though it starts with a shebang, running chmod +x __init__.py should fix it. Assuming you're on linux that is, on windows you have to start it with python3.