I'm a user of both TIDAL HiFi and Amazon Echo. Normally I enjoy playing streaming music on my smart speakers. But how do I play my Tidal playlist on an Echo device? Please help.

Amazon Echo is an Alexa-enabled smart speaker that energizes your daily life. You may have made this Echo device a helpful home addition, and control your smart home, get information, news, and weather through the powerful virtual assistant - Alexa. More than this, Alexa is adept at assisting you to enjoy music, including playing songs from various streaming music platforms on your Amazon Echo device, such as Spotify, Tidal, and others. Of course, Tidal combined with Echo will be a great way for audiophiles to enjoy an unparalleled music catalog with the highest quality audio available. Read on, and we'll explain how to stream Tidal music on Amazon Echo in two ways.

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Method 1. Connect Tidal to Alexa for Playing on Echo Device

Check out this official way to play Tidal songs or playlist on Echo device by linking TIDAL app to Alexa. After the connection, just give out the voice command, and you're free to have your preferred playlist played on the Amazon Echo speakers.

Step 1: Download and open the Amazon Alexa App on your phone.

Step 2: Tap "More" on the bottom panel, then "Settings > Music & Podcasts."

Step 3: Click "Link New Service", choose TIDAL and follow the prompts that link your TIDAL account.

Step 4: Back to "Music & Podcasts," tap "Default Service" to select TIDAL as the default music service.

Step 5: Once Alexa and Tidal have connected, you can use voice commands to play your favourite Tidal songs and playlists. Simple call out "Alexa, play xx song/album/podcast (on Tidal)."

Note: Please bear in mind that only Tidal Premium accounts - Tidal HiFi & HiFi Plus are available to play Tidal songs on Amazon Echo. Plus, Tidal doesn't support playing music offline on Amazon Echo speakers. To listen to Tidal tracks offline on Echo, even through the Tidal Free plan, let's go to the second method below.

Method 2. Download Tidal Music for Streaming On Amazon Echo

Tool Required: Tidal Music to Amazon Echo Recorder

Connecting to Alexa is not the only way out. To put Tidal music on Amazon Echo for offline streaming, you can adopt another workable solution - Stream downloaded Tidal on Amazon Echo through Bluetooth. But before this, you need a reliable Tidal music downloader to save Tidal audio to offline audio. AudiCable Tidal Music Recorder is just the tool for that.

AudiCable Audio Recorder is a powerful all-in-one Tidal Music Recorder and Tidal Music to MP3 Converter, available for Tidal Free and Tidal Premium. With AudiCable, you can easily download and convert songs, albums, and playlists from Tidal to your local computer. The tool is well designed to save Tidal music to MP3, AAC, WAV, FLAC, AIFF, and ALAC formats with keeping original audio quality and ID3 tags. AudiCable can do a lot more than this. It can do the same trick to convert and download songs from Tidal, Spotify, Apple Music, etc. Meanwhile, with no need to install any extra app, including the Tidal app. See the detailed features below.

📂 Step-by-step Guide

Step 1 Download and Install AudiCable Tidal Music Recorder

Take first to download and run AudiCable for Windows or Mac. Most popular music streaming platforms are displayed on the main interface of AudiCable. Navigate to "Tidal" and click.

Note: Using the "Add other sources" button, you can also add other music services that you want. Just copy the official website, customize it with a new name, and then implement a new music platform.

Step 2 Choose the Player and Sign in

Please choose the way you want to download Tidal music. After that, sign in with your Tidal account. Tidal Free, Tidal Hi-Fi, Tidal Hi-Fi Plus accounts are available.

Note: The first option will bring up AudiCable's built-in web player window, and the second will pop up from your Chrome.

Step 3 Adjust the Output Parameters for Tidal Music

On the top-right corner of AudiCable, click on a "gear icon". From the pop-up setting window, you need to choose "MP3" as the output format for your Tidal music. When done with the settings, you can directly close the window to apply all changes.

Note: Apart from the output format, you can also freely customize the output quality, output folder, output files name, output organized and output path as you like. Among them, the audio quality varies from 128kbps to 320kbps.

Step 4 Start Downloading Tidal Music to MP3 Format

Choose your preferred Tidal songs, playlist, or albums to play. As soon as you play the song, AudiCable will start recording simultaneously. All recorded Tidal songs are saved in the format you set before.

Note: Please make sure that your network is stable during recording. If you want to mute the sound and just download Tidal music in the background, you can go to the upper right, and tap the "sound" icon to switch to mute.

Step 5 Get Downloaded Tidal MP3 Audios on Your Computer Folder

Click the "Recorded" tap, and the "Folder icon" behind a song, then you can quickly locate Tidal downloads. Now you are not limited to playing these songs through the Tidal Music app.

Step 6 Stream Downloaded Tidal Music Offline On Amazon Echo

Once the Tidal tracks are downloaded locally, connect the computer with Alexa over Bluetooth. Then you stream downloaded music from Tidal on your Echo speaker.

If you want to listen to Tidal on Alexa controlled by mobile, please transfer the downloaded audio files to your phone via USB. Then, follow the steps below to cast Tidal music on Amazon Echo device.

1) Turn on Bluetooth on your mobile device.

2) Start the Alexa app, tap Devices > Echo & Alexa > Add Device, and select an Echo device you want to play Tidal music.

3) Go to Bluetooth Connections section on your mobile device, find the Echo device in the available list, and tap to pair.

Note: If you ever find that your phone hasn’t connected to your Echo device, you can say "Alexa, connect to my phone", and it should search for and connect to the phone automatically.

★ Disclaimer

1. All these methods are for personal or educational use only.
2. You should not use this tool to distribute music or for business.

Conclusion

With the two methods depicted above, We hope you'll know how to stream Tidal music on Amazon Echo. Whether you're a Tidal Free or Tidal Premium user, you can take on the second method to download Tidal as offline lossless tracks. After that, you can keep downloaded Tidal songs playable on your Echo device forever.

Note: The free trial version of AudiCable enables you to record a maximum of 10 Tidal songs. To get the full conversion, please become a registered member by buying a license from AudiCable.