How to Rip Music from Tidal in 5 Working Ways [Tidal Rip]

Part 1. How to Rip Master Music from Tidal with Effective Software

There are lots of Tidal music rippers that allow music lovers to rip music from Tidal. But here, we put AudFree Tidal Music Converter in the first place. The reason why we choose it is that this tool is not only an audio ripper but also a Tidal downloader and converter.

It is specially designed for Tidal users to make Tidal music entertainment easier and better. It has the ability to download HiFi and Master music from Tidal Free, Tidal HiFi, and Tidal HiFi Plus accounts. It can adjust the sample rate as 192000 Hz, and bit depth as 24 bit to keep the better quality. What's more, by adopting the innovative technology, it can rip Tidal tracks, playlists, albums to local drive of your computer.

Besides, as a Tidal converter, it is able to rip Tidal to FLAC, MP3, WAV, AAC, M4A, and more at 5X faster speed. Then you can transfer Tidal music rippings to any other devices or media players for offline listening anywhere without the Tidal app.

AudFree Tidal Music Converter

• Rip Tidal Master audio and HiFi music for offline listening anywhere
• Run at 5X faster conversion speed while ripping Tidal songs in batch
• Keep original ID3 tags and 100% lossless audio quality of ripped Tidal files
• Rip and convert Tidal music to MP3, FLAC, WAV, AAC, M4B losslessly

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How to Rip Tidal Master Audio on Mac and PC

The following tutorial will guide you through how to rip Tidal playlists and albums in MQA quality by doing a few clicks. This excellent tool is available for Mac and Windows operating systems. Please download the right free-trial version to your computer OS.

Step 1Add Tidal music and songs for ripping

This Tidal Music Converter for Mac and PC offers an easy way to add Tidal songs and playlists to AudFree Tidable for ripping. Open this software, Tidal app will launch automatically. You can discover the favorite Tidal music and copy & paste the Tidal link to the search box of AudFree Tidable. It will start to analyze and load Tidal music files for a while after you click the '+' button.

Step 2Adjust Tidal output format for ripping

There are six output audio formats for you to choose from. Please find the Menu button from the upper-right corner to select 'Preferences' > 'Convert'. Mac users need to tap 'AudFree Tidal Music Converter for Mac' from the Apple menu bar to find it. Then the setting window will pop up, where you can customize output settings. You can adjust Tidal music output format and customize other audio parameters, like bit rate, and sample rate for ripping.

To make the ripped Tidal music compatible with almost all devices, you are suggested to define MP3 as the target one. Because MP3 is the most common audio format. But you can also rip Lossless FLAC from Tidal to preserve the best quality of Tidal audios.

Step 3Download and rip MQA music from Tidal

When all things are set, you can click the 'Convert' button at the bottom-right corner. And then added Tidal songs will be downloaded and ripped to plain audio files with best quality kept. You can click the 'Converted' icon to locate ripped Tidal music downloads on your computer. You can transfer and play them on your portable devices without a subscription.

Part 2. How to Rip Tidal Music with Best Tidal Ripper

If you prefer using a traditional ripping way to rip songs from Tidal, you can get help from AudFree Audio Capture. It's an intelligent Tidal music ripper by adopting the built-in leading-edge ripping technology to rip Tidal music in high quality (96000 Hz and 24 bit).

Different from common audio recorders, AudFree Audio Capture supports grabbing multiple Tidal songs at the same time. It can also divide Tidal recordings into independent tracks automatically or cut unwanted Tidal audio clips manually. Apart from Tidal ripping, it can rip any sound from other popular streaming music services, like Spotify, Deezer, and so on.

AudFree Audio Capture

• Losslessly rip songs from Tidal and other streaming music
• Capture Tidal audio on both Mac and Windows computers
• Customize ID3 tags of Tidal music and playlists manually
• Perform multiple Tidal rippings and divide them into independent tracks

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How to Rip Tidal Songs on Mac and Windows Computers

Download and install the AudFree Audio Capture for Tidal on your computer. And then you can refer to the following guide on how to get offline Tidal music rippings. You can save Tidal music as local files for free offline playback. Here, we used Mac version for a demonstration purpose.

Step 1Set up AudFree Audio Capture for Tidal

When you launch this all-in-one Tidal ripper, you will see its main interface as above. There is a list of the installed applications on your computer, like Chrome, Spotify, and more. Check out whether the Tidal app or the web browser you use to access to Tidal web player are displayed here. Here, we suggest you rip songs and playlists from the Tidal app to get the best quality of your Tidal ripping.

Step 2Define Tidal output parameters for ripping

This tool also enables users to personalize output settings of ripping Tidal tracks. You can click the 'audio' icon to open the setting window. You can define output format, adjust other audio parameters for ripping Tidal according to your needs. When all settings are done, please don't forget to hit 'OK' to save all settings.

Step 3Play and record Tidal music

Now, you will come back to the main interface again. Please tap on the Tidal app, and the Tidal app and the recording window will launch automatically. When you play Tidal music, it will rip them simultaneously. If you didn't install the Tidal app, please open the web browser to play Tidal songs. It will rip and download music from the Tidal web player. For ripping audios from Tidal videos, please play the Tidal video you want to rip.

Step 4Edit and save Tidal music ripping

AudFree Audio Capture features a built-in editing function. It allows you to edit, trim, cut, or merge each ripped Tidal music into small segments you want. Besides, you can tap on the 'Tag' section to customize ID3 tags, like a year, album cover, artist. After that, please click the 'Save' button to export all Tidal downloads into your computer.

Part 3. How to Rip Music from Tidal via Third-party Tool

AudKeep Tidal Music Converter is also an extraordinary program that gives you the option to stream and rip FLAC, MP3, and other plain audio tracks from Tidal desktop app. It supports ripping more than 80 million songs from Tidal in Normal, High, HiFi, and Master quality. Regardless of whether you are a free or premium Tidal member, you can use this brilliant Tidal audio ripper to download and save Tidal playlists to local computer.

How to Rip Music Off Tidal at 5X Speed

Step 1. Open this easy-to-use software from your computer desktop by hitting on the software icon. The Tidal desktop app will be launched simultaneously. Therefore, please don't forget to install the Tidal app on your computer in advance.

Step 2. In the opening Tidal app, you can start to search and find favorite songs and playlists that you'd like to rip to MP3, FLAC. Once found, you can directly drag and drop them to the main interface of AudKeep Tidal Music Converter.

Step 3. Press the menu bar to choose the 'Preferences' > 'Convert' option to adjust output ripping settings of Tidal songs. After that, please close the window and click the big 'Convert' button at the bottom-right corner of this tool. This Tidal playlist ripper will automatically rip high-quality music off Tidal at a 5X faster speed.

Part 4. How to Rip Songs from Tidal for Free

Tidal-Media-Downloader is an open-source and free application released on Github, which is proficient in ripping songs from Tidal at no cost. Besides, it also gives the option to rip video from Tidal. While using it to rip Tidal songs, you can add metadata to downloaded files. And while downloading videos from Tidal, you can select wanted video resolution.

Tidal-Media-Downloader has two versions, respectively Tidal-dl and Tidal-gui. No matter which version you choose to use, they both require a Tidal HiFi subscription to rip music from Tidal for free. The output quality depends on your subscription grade. Besides, it will be noted that you shouldn't distribute ripped Tidal songs and videos for any purpose. Here, we will take Tidal-gui as an example to show the user guide.

How to Rip Songs Off Tidal for Free

Step 1. Navigate to Tidal-Media-Downloader on Github on your web browser and install and launch this app. It will require you to log into your Tidal account and authorize your device to access your Tidal account.

Step 2. Go back to Tidal-gui app and search songs and albums that you want to rip by typing name of music in the Search bar. Or you can copy and paste Tidal album, playlist, track or video URL to this free Tidal ripper to load Tidal content.

Step 3. Check the mark before each Tidal music to select favorite songs to rip. Besides, you can modify the output quality from Normal to Master as you like. After that, please press the 'Download' button to launch the ripping process.

Part 5. How to Let Tidal Rip Music Online for Free

What if you don't have a Tidal HiFi or HiFi Plus subscription and have no money to buy a full license of third-party Tidal music ripper? Will you give up ripping music off Tidal for free? If you don't care much about the audio quality, a free online Tidal ripper could be a nice helper. This method is also popular for people who don't want to install extra apps on their computer.

Apowersoft Free Audio Recorder Online is one of the full-featured online freeware to ripping digital from Tidal as local files. Just download a small launcher, and then it will empower you to record and rip Tidal songs, playlists, etc. from your compute sound card to MP3. After that, you can listen to Tidal desktop offline even using a free Tidal plan. It's worth mentioning that limited output formats and low audio quality are its disadvantages.

How to Let Tidal Rip Audio Online

Step 1. Open the Apowersoft official website and there is a big 'Start Recording' button on this home page. You can simply press it to select the audio source as computer system sound.

Step 2. Now, you should hit on the 'Start Recording' button again to choose 'Entire Screen' or 'Chrome Tab' and 'Share system audio' options to configure the ripping mode. And then, please click the 'Share' button to start ripping music and videos from Tidal.

Step 3. Now, please open the Tidal desktop app or Tidal Web Player to stream Tidal music and playlists, this online tool will start to record Tidal without any restriction. Besides, you can hit on the 'Pause' and 'Stop' options to control music ripping process. Finally, you can locate them by clicking the 'Show in Folder' button.

Part 6. Comparison: Best Ways of Ripping from Tidal

There are 5 ways to rip audio from Tidal without effort. But which one to choose? If you still can't make the final decision, you can have a quick glance at the complete comparison. Check out the key performances of the five ways presented in the chart below.

From the recommended points and supported powerful features of these music rippers, it's easy to get the conclusion that the best way could be AudFree Tidal Music Converter. It supports 5X faster-ripping speed and six output formats and keeps Master output Tidal quality.

Part 7. In Conclusion

The first three programs have the ability to rip music from Tidal without touching or losing the original audio quality. AudFree Tidal Music Converter and AudKeep Tidal Converter works at 5 conversion speeds. It is faster than AudFree Audio Capture, Tidal-Media-Downloader, and Apowersoft Free Audio Recorder Online, which rip Tidal music at 1:1 real-time. But in another aspect, AudFree Audio Capture and Apowersoft software can extract audio from other sources, while Tidal-Media-Downloader can rip Tidal videos.

Anyway, you can weigh the pros and cons of all Tidal music rippers and make the final right decision to get Tidal music rippings. Let me know your final choice in the comment area.