Eager to change Tidal music cover art when seeing a low-quality or wrong album cover in your music library? In fact, you can't change the cover art for Tidal albums and tracks directly within the official Tidal mobile or desktop app or web player. Yet, you can change Tidal playlist cover art for the playlist you create.
So, how to do that? This guide will show you how to change Tidal cover art for albums, tracks, and playlists officially and vt third-party tools step by step. Let's move on to reading.
Part 1. How to Change Tidal Playlist Cover Art
Tidal allows users to fully control and customize their own playlists within the Tidal app and Tidal web player. You can just upload the cover image you like for your playlist. Now, you can follow the guide below to start changing Tidal playlist cover art.
Step 1. Open the Tidal app or visit the Tidal web player on your desktop or mobile device and log in to your Tidal account.
Step 2. Locate and open the playlist you want to edit and change its cover image from the left panel on the screen.
Step 3. On desktop, click the current playlist cover art image (or click the Edit option on the page) and choose Change image. On mobile, tap the pencil icon near the playlist title.
Step 4. Next, you can select any image from your computer or phone's photo library.
Step 5. After that, adjust the image and save your changes to change playlist cover art for your Tidal playlist.
Part 2. How to Change Tidal Album and Track Cover Art
For users who want to change Tidal tracks and albums cover art, you can't do that directly within the Tidal server. But no worries. There is a workaround. That's, you can download Tidal music as local files first and change its cover art using third-party tools.
To do this, tools like AudFree Tidal Music Converter can help. It allows you to download Tidal songs and other audio content to your computer locally at a fast speed. What's more, it can keep full ID3 tags like lyrics, album cover, title, etc., after conversion and allows you to personalize the tags and cover art within its tag editor. Also, it can convert Tidal songs, playlists, albums, etc. to MP3, FLAC, AIFF, WAV, and other audio formats. Besides, it will keep lossless audio quality for Tidal music.
But before starting, you need to download high-quality cover art from Album Art Exchange, Discogs or other album art websites for your Tidal audio track. After that, follow the steps to download Tidal music to computer and change its cover art.
- Step 1Download and install AudFree Tidable
- First, download AudFree Tidal Music Converter, install and launch it on your Windows or Mac computer. Later, you will see the built-in Tidal web player on its main screen. Next, log in to your Tidal account to access your music library.
- Step 2Customize Tidal music output format
- Now, tap the menu option and select "Preferences". Then click "Conversion" in the new window. Next, you can choose audio output format, such as Lossless, FLAC, MP3, AIFF, etc. Besides, you can customize specific audio parameters of Tidal music, such as bit rate, sample rate, etc. After that, tap 'OK'.
- Step 3Add Tidal music to AudFree Tidable
- Next, choose the Tidal song you want to download, click '+🎵' and tap the 'Add to list' button in the pop-up window. Then the Tidal track will be loaded into AudFree tool for downloading and conversion.
- Step 4Download and convert Tidal songs
- At last, hit the 'Convert' button at the 'Converting' window to start the conversion. Once converted, you can get the converted Tidal songs.
- Step 5Change Tidal Song Cover Art
- To change Tidal song cover art, you can tap the Edit Tag icon next to the converted Tidal track in the Converted window. Then you can click on the cover art and proceed to choose the cover image you like for your track. After that, tap OK to save your change.
Besides using AudFree Tidal Music Converter, you can also use iTunes to customize your Tidal music covert art. Please import the local Tidal music files to iTunes and right-click the song. Then choose 'Song Info', go to the Artwork section, tap Add Artwork and then you can change the cover art for Tidal track. After that, tap OK.
Part 3. Tips: How to Download Tidal High-quality Cover Art from Tidal Web Player
If you want to save the original Tidal cover art in high quality, you can follow this tutorial to do that. Tidal allows users to download Tidal album cover art directly from the Tidal web player.
Step 1. Start the Tidal web player via a web browser from your computer and log in to your Tidal account.
Step 2. Play a track you like to download the cover image. Then tap the cover art in the Now Playing bar at the bottom of the screen.
Step 3. Next, click the large art image, right-click the cover art, and choose 'Save image as' to download Tidal cover art to your computer. The original cover image is 1280x high quality in general.
Part 4. In Conclusion
Though there is no official and direct way to change Tidal song or album cover art, you can use third-party tools to customize it. Also, for Tidal playlist created by yourself, you can directly change it within the Tidal platform. By the way, if you like the cover art from Tidal, you can download it as an image in high quality from the Tidal web player.

Miley Swift
Staff Editor