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By ChesterUpdated on March 07, 2023
"My Tidal subscription plan is about to expire, should I upgrade to Tidal HiFi Plus? Is there any big differences between them? Or is there any way that I can download Tidal Music without subscription?"
With more and more streaming music services are grown, it is becoming very hard to choose from all these services. Tidal is such a music streaming services that focus on artists and fans, Tidal offers lossless streaming for subscribers, this is what makes it different from other services. There are 2 tiers of Tidal subscription, Tidal HiFi and Tidal HiFi Plus, many people are very confused between these 2 subscription plans, some users even say that they can not recognize any differences in sound quality between Tidal HiFi and Tidal HiFi Plus. What Tidal subscription plan is best for you? In the following, we will be talking about Tidal HiFi vs Tidal HiFi Plus to see what are the differences between them.
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Is Tidal HiFi free? No. Tidal offers 2 paid tiers, including Tidal HiFi and Tidal HiFi Plus.
Tidal HiFi vs HiFi Plus: Can you hear the difference? First of all, let's take a look at the audio quality for Tidal HiFi and HiFi Plus.
| Tidal HiFi | Tidal HiFi Plus | |
|---|---|---|
| Standard | Yes | Yes |
| Sony 360 Reality Audio | No | Yes |
| Dolby Atmos | No | Yes |
| Dolby Atmos | No | Yes |
| Master Quality Authenticated | No | Yes |
| Hi-Res | No | Yes |
| HiFi (Lossless | Yes | Yes |
Tidal HiFi costs $9.99 per month, it's the basic subscription for Tidal, you can access all Tidal contents, also you can also listen to high fidelity quality Tidal Music offline. But you are not allow to listen to music in higher quality or immersive sound formats. Moreover, Tidal HiFi subscribers are not the first to get the latest updates in sound technology.
On the other hand, Tidal HiFi Plus costs $19.99 each month, you can get all the same features as Tidal HiFi, and you can also with the extra access to immersive sound quality (Sony 360 Reality Audio and Dolby Music) and MQA files. These two subscription plans offers 30-day free trial, you can cancel it anytime if you don't want it.
Tidal HiFi and Tidal HiFi Plus offer download option, users are able to download Tidal Music for offline listening within the Tidal app. But each of Tidal Music songs is DRM-protected, you do not really own the downloaded songs, they are just saved as cache files, you can only listen to the songs within the Tidal app, you are not allow to transfer the downloaded Tidal Music songs to other devices for offline listening. Once you cancel the subscription, your downloaded songs are not longer to be played.
So is there any way to keep Tidal Music forever? It's definitely yes. In this part, we are going to share a way to download Tidal Music for free even without HiFi account, here comes a professional tool, UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter, which help you download Tidal Music and keep them forever without subscribing to Tidal.
UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter supports downloading Tidal Music from Tidal Free, Tidal HiFi and Tidal HiFi Plus, which is an professional Tool to remove DRM from Tidal Music, and convert Tidal Music to MP3, M4A, AAC, WAV, FLAC, AIFF, in orders to save Tidal Music on your computer forever, you can either play the music offline on other media play or transfer them to other devices for playing offline. Most importantly, with the help of UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter, you can easily download and save Tidal HiFi music playlists, albums as lossless CD-quality FLAC files (HiFi quality), and all the ID3 tags and metadata info are kept after conversion.
Key Features of UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter
Before we start downloading Tidal Music to computer, You need to download the latest version of UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter first and install it to your 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. Set Output Format to MP3
You need to set up your output settings, click the 'gear' icon on the top right corner of the program interface for the output setting window, there are 6 types of audio formats you can choose from, Auto is default as M4A format, choose MP3 here.
There are many other parameters you can set up for your output file, when you set MP3 as output format, you can set the output quality to 320kbps. 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 from Tidal Music on the list.
Step 4. Start Converting Tidal Music to MP3
Once you have confirmed the songs in the converting list, click the "Convert" button to start converting the selected songs to MP3 on computer at 10x faster speed. All output music files will be kept its original audio quality and 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 also can directly play the converted Tidal Music with the built-in Tidal Music player offline.
You have known that the differences between Tidal HiFi and Tidal HiFi Plus, it gives you a better idea on how you choose from them. However, if you want to get rid of all the Tidal limitations, we strongly suggest using UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter, it helps you download Tidal Music to common audio files and keep them on your computer forever, you can play them on any device anywhere at anytime. So why not just download this powerful program instead of thinking about which subscription plan to choose, and start enjoy Tidal Music without restricts at all.
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