How to Play Tidal Music on Garmin Watch

By ChesterUpdated on December 16, 2022

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"I am a fan of Tidal, I want to listen to Tidal music on my Garmin Watch while exercising, but I find that the Garmin Watch does not work with Tidal music. Can I use Tidal Music on Garmin Watch? Is there a way to listen to Tidal Music on my Garmin Watch?"

"How can I get Tidal music work on Garmin Watch? I can find the Tidal app for my Garmin Watch, is there any solution to play Tidal music on Garmin Watch? Thanks for help."

Garmin Watch is one of the world's top sport watch, it is such a great choice whether you are a swimmer, runner, hiker, cyclist, or someone just starts to look after their fitness. Garmin Watch has GPS and health analytic features that help you track your runs and understand your body's performance.

Garmin Watch supports a lot of functions such as music playback, smart notification, GPS navigation and more. When it comes to streaming music, there are totally of four streaming music services are compatible with Garmin Watches, Spotify, Amazon Music, Deezer and iHeartRadio. If you are a Tidal user, unfortunately, Garmin Watch does not support Tidal, which means you can not play Tidal music on Garmin Watch directly. Do worry, since Garmin Watch allow users to upload local music files for offline playback, we will introduce you a tool to convert Tidal music to local files, then you can transfer them to Garmin Watch for playing offline.

CONTENTS

Part 1. Best Tool to Get Tidal Garmin Watch Work

For some reason Tidal is not integrated with Garmin Watch yet, so Tidal is not available on Garmin Wathc yet. But as we know that Garmin Watch supports importing local music files form computer, so you can actually upload Tidal music to your Garmin Watch. Well, Tidal is a streaming music service, even you are subscribed to Tidal, you can download any contents from Tidal, but the music files you download from Tidal are DRM protected, you are not able to copy or transfer these files to other unauthorized devices without the Tidal app for offline playback. So to get Tidal music on Garmin Watch, you need to convert Tidal music to the common music files that is compatible with Garmin Watch, such as MP3, M4A, AAC and WAV.

To convert Tidal music to common audio format for Garmin Watch, you need help of UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter. It is a professional and ease-to-use program which is able to decrypt Tidal music, in order to download and convert Tidal music to MP3, AAC, M4A, WAV, FLAC and AIFF. So that you can easily transfer the downloaded Tidal music files to Garmin Watch for offline playback without limitations, you can also play Tidal music on other devices like Sony Walkman, SanDisk MP3 player, iPod, Astell & Kern, etc.

In addition, UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter supports converting music to MP3 and other formats without any quality lost, you can even set the output quality higher if you are an audiophile. With the batch converting feature and 10X faster conversion speed, you can convert a big Tidal playlist in short time. Most importantly, UkeySoft comes with a built-in Tidal web player, you can search, browse, download and play music before and after conversion in one-stop, there is no need to install the official Tidal music app.

Key Features of UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter:

• Download Tidal Music tracks, playlists to computer for free.
• Convert Tidal Music to MP3, M4A, FLAC, AAC, WAV and AIFF.
• Keep 100% lossless audio quality and retain ID3 Tags after conversion.
• Support Batch converting with 10X faster conversion speed.
• The built-in Tidal we player allows you to search, browse, download and play music in one-stop.
• Available on Windows and MacOS.
• Free update and technical support.

Part 2. How to Convert Tidal Music for Garmin Watch

Before starting the tutorial, you need to download the latest version of UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter first, and install it to your Windows or Mac computer, then follow the steps below.

Step 1. Launch the Program and Log in Tidal Account
Launch UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter on your computer, log in your Tidal account by clicking the "Log In" button on the top right corner.

Tips: You can log in Tidal with your Tidal Free, Tidal HiFi and Tidal Hifi Plus account.

Step 2. Select Output Format to MP3
To select the output format to MP3. please move the mouse to the 'gear' icon on the top right corner of the program interface and click to get to the output setting window, you will see there are 6 types of formats you can choose from, Auto is default as M4A format, MP3 is universal format and it is compatible for Garmin Watch and most devices, so let's select MP3 here.

There are many other parameters you can set up for your output file, if you set MP3 as output format, the output quality is set at 256 Kbps automatically, you can set it to 320kbps if you have high requirement of sound, but please note that the higher quality you set, the bigger size of output music file you get. You can also set the output file path, output file name in Title, output organized in Artist, Album, Artist/Album, Album/Artist.

Step 3. Add Songs, Albums or Playlists
Choose the songs, albums or playlists that you want to download from Tidal Music. Click the red '+' add button on the right side to add the songs to the converting list.

All songs in the converting list are selected by default. You can deselect the songs that you do not want to download on the list.

Step 4. Start Converting Tidal Music to MP3
Once you have added all the wanted songs in the converting list, click the "Convert" button to start converting the selected songs to MP3 on computer at 10x faster speed. You will have the output music files that are retained the original ID3 tags.

Step 5. Get the Local Files
After the conversion is done, click "History" to view all the downloaded contents from Tidal Music, you can locate your output MP3 files by clicking the blue folder icon at the back of the song list.

Step 6. Offline Play Tidal Music
You can directly play the converted Tidal Music with the built-in Tidal Music player offline.

Part 3. How to Add Tidal Music to Garmin Watch

Now you have got your Tidal music in MP3 on your computer as local files, you can start importing Tidal music to your Garmin Watch. There are 2 ways to transfer Tidal music to Garmin Watch, let's check them out.

Import Tidal music to Garmin Watch by Garmin Express app

Step 1. Download and install the Garmin Express app on your computer.

Step 2. Once installed, select 'Get Started' and choose 'Add a Device'.

Step 3. Connect your Garmin Watch to your computer with a USB cable.

Step 4. Choose 'Add Device' and login your Garmin account.

Step 5. On Garmin Express app, select 'Music', then click on the folder icon to find the Tidal music that you want to import to your Garmin Watch.

Step 6. Select the Tidal music files and click "Send to Device" to transfer Tidal music to your Garmin Watch. Once it’s done, then you can enjoy Tidal music on your Garmin Watch.

Import Tidal Music to Garmin Watch via Android File Transfer

Step 1. Download the Android File Transfer app on your Mac computer.

Step 2. Use a USB cable to connect the Garmin Watch to your Mac computer.

Step 3. Double-click the Android File Transfer app to start it.

Step 4. Find and copy & paste the converted Tidal music file to your Garmin Watch from your Mac computer.

Part 4. FAQs about Tidal Garmin Watch

Q1. Is Tidal available on Garmin Watch?
A. Not yet, Tidal is not integrated with Garmin, there is no Tidal app for Gaimin Watch, but you can use the Tidal music converter above to download Tidal music as local files, then import the local Tidal music files to Garmin Watch for offline playing.

Q2. What streaming music services are available with Garmin Watch?
A. There are 4 streaming music services are available, Spotify, Amazon Music, Deezer and iHeartRadio.

Q3. Do I Need to Carry My Phone to Listen to Tidal Music on Garmin Watch?
A. No. You can stream Tidal music on your Garmin Watch offline without carrying your phone with UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter.

Q4. Can You Tell Me about Garmin Express App?
A. Garmin Express app which is specially designed to manage and control your Garmin devices, with this app, you can update your map, software, registration of your device, syncing fitness data and much more.

Conclusion

Since Tidal app is not yet available on Garmin Watch, you have known how to listen to Tidal music on your Garmin Watch with UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter from this post. It helps you download and convert Tidal music to common audio formats that are compatible with Garmin Watch, so that you can transfer the converted music files to your Garmin Watch for offline listening without any limits. Do not hesitate to download the UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter to you Windows or Mac computer, and start enjoying Tidal music on your Garmin Watch freely.

Chester

Justin Sabrina has over 10 years of content writing experience. She specializes in product reviews, how-to guides, tips and tricks, top lists, etc. on data encryption, multi-media conversion, screen recording and iOS unlocking. At UkeySoft, she performs in-depth research SEO copywriting and collaborates with our R & D team to offer effective software solution, most of her articles on software are helpful and easy to read, helping our reader easily solve problems through using software or apps.

Chester

Li Zhang is a sophisticated editor for UkeySoft in tech blog writing, as well as a SEO and content marketing expert. She has been writing related article about multimedia conversion, streaming music and streaming video since 2018. Also, she's starting to write article about data security, including articles about file lock, USB encryption, DVD encryption, etc. Each helpful tutorial and solution is based on her practical tests, she is aways energetic and trustworthy in this field.

Chester

Chester is an experienced editor for UkeySoft focused on tech article writing, software & hardware produce review and tutorial. He specializes in composing posts about music conversion, video downloading, video conversion, screen recording and other tech knowledge tips. He always understands user needs and pain points and familiar with all kinds of multimedia conversion software and streaming music downloader on the market. So far, he has published 400+ helpful tech articles of software reviews, how-to guides to help reader in need.

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