Tidown

A simple, yet efficient, Tital downloader.
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Storytime!

After "the great death" of the node-spotify-downloader I looked into alternatives to get music streams and pipe them to files.
For the not-so-tech-savvy people: Yes, that means downloading.
Spotify has really cracked down on the security (Login captcha, more errors when trying to get a stream URL, ...) and I just can't bother with it anymore. The source code is still up for people to play around though, if they want.

The other alternative I looked into was Deezer, which... well... Deezloader, which was kindly reuploaded by @s3condAtall on Github, wasn't working at all for me.
I needed to find something else...

Tidal seemed good and a few people (only like 2-3) told me about it. I didn't even know it existed before that!
Now, there are some APIs for NodeJS out there that I wanted to try out... especially because it seems that Tidal has dedicated API-endpoints to get a Stream- or Offline-URL. (They're using it for the Web-App as well, so why shouldn't I be able to?)
I signed up for the trial, which is 1€ for 30 days, and started hacking code into Atom (which is a great editor by the way!)

After 2 days I had a working prototype, which I actually leaked proof of in our node-spotify-downloader Gitter.im chat.

And now, here it is! - Tidown!

How do I use it?

Preparations / Setup

First of all you need an account on the music streaming service Tidal.
Here you have 2 options:

• TIDAL Premium (10€/mo), which will give you 96kbit or 320kbit
• TIDAL HiFi (20€/mo), which will give you 96kbit, 320kbit OR EVEN lossless!

I am GLAD that Tidal is not available for free. This makes me feel a little more safe about this project.

If you don't have NodeJS yet, go download it from over here:
https://nodejs.org/en/
v4.5.0 or higher is required.

Afterwards, just download the repository and unpack it to some folder.
In that folder, open up a CMD or terminal and type the following 2 commands:

npm install
npm install -g iced-coffee-script

After you've done that, you need to copy or rename the file config.iced.example to config.iced.
Then, open it with your favorite text editor and fill out the fields

• username
• password
• token

That concludes the setup.

Basic usage

As example, I'm going to take the album "Drunken Lullabies" by the band "Flogging Molly".
The link in your browser looks like this:
https://listen.tidal.com/album/4571261
Now, what we need from that link is the type of it, in this case album, and the ID, in this case 4571261.

To start the download on this album, all we need to do is run the following command in the CMD / terminal:
iced index.iced -t album -q high -i 4571261
This will start a download of the type album with the quality high (320kbit) and the ID 4571261.
Additionally we could use -l <limit> or --limit <limit> to set the maximum parallel downloads. The default of this is 10.

A full documentation on how to use the tool can be found by typing just iced index.iced, iced index.iced --help or by supplying invalid / missing parameters.

For simplicity's sake, and because I know some people are just lazy ( ;) ), here's the list of the parameters and what they do:

Tagging

Windows

Windows needs the ffmpeg.exe in the root directory or in the PATH.

Mac OS X

Install homebrew from http://brew.sh and do the following commands;

• /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
• brew install ffmpeg

License

The license can be found in the corresponding LICENSE.md file.