How to Download Tidal MQA Lists for Listening Forever
Partnered with MQA, Tidal Masters mode offers ‘an authenticated and unbroken version’ of online MQA songs. The bitrate rate can reach 24 bit and the sample rate can up to 96000 Hz.
However, the Tidal MQA tracks are not available to purchase or download as local files for forever collection. This is a pity for many MQA music lovers. Are you one of them?
If you are, in today’s article, I would like to share my exclusive trick to fulfill your wish. This method is able to download Tidal MQA list and listen to them for forever free.
Download Tidal MQA Albums: Tool You Need
Adopting the same rule of protecting music resources, Tidal also prevents MQA tracks from downloading as true local files, even if you have paid a $19.99 USD fee for HIFI subscription per month. Such cost pressures, and the fact that you will lose all your own playlists once the subscription expires. Nothing left unless you keep subscribing to the service.
I am still wondering whether the subscription rule is reasonable for online streaming music. Luckily, it is possible to avoid this trouble by using a small tip. Now let’s check the list of what you need:
2. Tidal free trial or subscription
3. A Windows or Mac computer
The key tool is the first one, which is capable of getting rid of the protection from Tidal songs and download Tidal MQA albums as local playlists. The quality of the MQA downloads sounds no different from the original one. And the raw metadata is left intact, including artists, titles, albums, track numbers, album art, etc.
Download Tidal MQA List: Step by Step
Step 1. Load Tidal MQA music to AudFree
Download and register the correct version of AudFree on your computer. Launch it and the Tidal app. Copy and paste the link of the MQA track to the search bar in AudFree. Next, click the “+” icon to add the track to AudFree.
Step 2. Modify output parameters for Tidal MQA
Open the “menu” icon from the top taskbar on the AudFree. Select “Preferences” > “Convert” option. To keep the original the MQA quality, just choose format to FLAC, bitrate to 24 bit, and sample rate to 96000 Hz.
Step 3. Download Tidal MQA music onto the local computer
Tap the “Convert” button to start the program. The downloading process lasts depending on how many songs you have loaded to AudFree. When all the projects are finished, you can access the target local folder to see if all Tidal MQA tracks are downloaded successfully.
Now you have downloaded the Tidal MQA playlist as local music files. And you are enabled to enjoy these MQA songs for free forever even the subscription expires.
