mreweilk / redsea

Music downloader for Tidal, slightly revived

If you are a Windows user, you might want to check out Athame, a graphical music download client. It also seems to work well on Mono, if you use Linux or OS X.

RedSea

Music downloader and tagger for Tidal. For educational use only, and may break in the future.

Current state

RedSea is currently not being worked on any more. You are more than welcome to contribute, especially if you would like to fix the numerous Unicode issues.

Introduction

RedSea is a music downloader and tagger for the Tidal music streaming service. It is designed partially as a Tidal API example and partially as a proof-of-concept of the Tidal lossless download hack. Tidal seems to have fixed this hack, so you can't download FLACs on a normal subscription. :(. This repository also hosts a wildly incomplete Python Tidal API implementation - it is contained in tidal_api.py and only requires requests to be installed. Note that you will you have to implement the Tidal lossless download hack yourself -- you can find this in mediadownloader.py.

Requirements

• Python 3.5
• requests
• mutagen

Setting up

1. Run pip install -r requirements.txt to install dependencies
2. Rename rs_config.txt to rs_config.json
3. Run redsea auth (or python redsea.py auth) to authenticate

How to use

usage: redsea.py [-h] [-o filename] [-p option] urls [urls ...]

A music downloader for Tidal.

positional arguments:
  urls         The URLs to download. You may need to wrap the URLs in double
               quotes if you have issues downloading.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help   show this help message and exit
  -o filename  The path to a config file. If not supplied, uses
               `rs_config.json' in the current directory.
  -p option    Any options specified here in `key=value' form will override
               the config file -- e.g. `tidal.quality=LOW' to force the
               quality to low. This can be used multiple times.

Note that the old x:id syntax still works, but it will be removed in future commits.

Tidal issues

• Sometimes, tracks will be tagged with a useless version (for instance, "(album version)"), or have the same version twice "(album version)(album version)". This is because tracks in Tidal are not consistent in terms of metadata - sometimes a version may be included in the track title, included in the version field, or both.

• Tracks may be tagged with an inaccurate release year; this may be because of Tidal only having the "rerelease" or "remastered" version but showing it as the original.

TODO

• Filename sanitisation is overzealous
• Playlists are treated like albums

Config reference

tidal

session: Automatically generated from authentication

country_code: Automatically generated from authentication

auth_token: Special Tidal authentication token

quality: either LOW (96kbps M4A), HIGH (320kbps M4A), LOSSLESS (FLAC) - both lossy formats are VBR

download

path: Base download directory

Format variables are {title}, {artist}, {album}, {tracknumber}.

album_format: Base album directory - tracks and cover art are stored here. May have slashes in it, for instance {artist}/{album}.

track_format: How tracks are formatted. The relevant extension is appended to the end.

keep_cover_jpg: Whether to keep the cover.jpg file in the album directory

tries: How many times to attempt to get a valid stream URL.

tagging

embed_album_art: Whether to embed album art or not into the file.