RedSea

Music downloader and tagger for Tidal. For educational use only, and will break in the future.

Current state

This fork will only get bug/hotfixes by me (Dniel97). Currently, Tidal changes/removes old tokens which supported single .flac/.m4a files and the newer tokens only receives MPEG-DASH which would require a lot of rewrite! For now is deprecated in favor of a newer OrpheusDL module: Orpheus Tidal module.

Telegram

Join the telegram group RedSea Community if you have questions, want to get help, submit bugs or want to talk to the developer.

Introduction

RedSea is a music downloader and tagger for the Tidal music streaming service. It is designed partially as a Tidal API example. This repository also hosts a wildly incomplete Python Tidal API implementation - it is contained in redsea/tidal_api.py and only requires requests to be installed.

Choosing login types and client IDs

• To get the E-AC-3 codec version of Dolby Atmos Music, the TV sign in must be used with the client ID and secret of one of the supported Android TVs (full list below) (now included)
• To get the AC-4 codec version of Dolby Atmos Music, the Mobile sign in must be used with the client ID of one of the supported phones (default mobile works)
• To get MQA, use literally anything that is not the browser, nearly all client IDs work. (In this case change the client ID of the desktop login) (bring your own anything (TV, mobile, desktop))
• To get ALAC without conversion, use the client ID of an iOS device, or the optional desktop token included from macOS (comment out the default FLAC supporting one, and uncomment the ALAC one) (secondary desktop works, or bring your own mobile)
• To get 360, use the client ID of a supported Android or iOS device (nearly all support it anyway, so that's easy) (default mobile works)

Client IDs provided by default:

• TV: FireTV with E-AC-3 (Dolby Atmos) and MQA support
• Mobile: Default has AC-4 support (which also supports MQA by extension). There is also another one which only supports MQA without AC-4 optionally (commented out)
• Desktop: Neither of the included ones support MQA! You must replace it with your own if you want MQA support! Default token can get FLACs only, whereas the optional one can get ALACs only (both are also able to get AAC)
• Browser: Is completely unsupported for now, though why would you want it anyway?

Further Reading has moved to the wiki: https://github.com/Dniel97/RedSea/wiki/Technical-info

Requirements

• Python (3.6 or higher)
• requests (2.22.0 or higher)
• mutagen (1.37 or higher)
• pycryptodomex
• ffmpeg-python (0.2.0 or higher)
• prettytable (1.0.0 or higher)
• tqdm (4.56.0 or higher)
• deezerapi (already included from deemix)

Installation

The new more detailed Installation Guide has been moved to the wiki: https://github.com/Dniel97/RedSea/wiki/Installation-Guide

How to add accounts/sessions

usage:  redsea.py auth list
        redsea.py auth add
        redsea.py auth remove
        redsea.py auth default
        redsea.py auth reauth

positional arguments:

list                Lists stored sessions if any exist

add                 Prompts for a TV, Mobile or Desktop session. The TV option
                    displays a 6 digit key which should be entered inside 
                    link.tidal.com where the user can login. The Mobile/Desktop
                    option prompts for a Tidal username and password. Both options
                    authorize a session which then gets stored in
                    the sessions file

remove              Removes a stored session from the sessions file
                    by name

default             Set a default account for redsea to use when the
                    -a flag has not been passed

reauth              Reauthenticates with server to get new sessionId

Further reading on which session to choose and which prompts to choose in the wiki: https://github.com/Dniel97/RedSea/wiki/Adding-a-session

How to use

usage: redsea.py [-h] [-p PRESET] [-a ACCOUNT] [-s] [--file FILE] urls [urls ...]

A music downloader for Tidal.

positional arguments:
urls                    The URLs to download. You may need to wrap the URLs in
                        double quotes if you have issues downloading.

optional arguments:
-h, --help              show this help message and exit
-p PRESET, --preset PRESET
                        Select a download preset. Defaults to Lossless only.
                        See /config/settings.py for presets
-a ACCOUNT, --account ACCOUNT
                        Select a session/account to use. Defaults to
                        the "default" session. If it does not exist, you
                        will be prompted to create one
-s, --skip              Pass this flag to skip track and continue when a track
                        does not meet the requested quality
-f, --file              The URLs to download inside a .txt file with a single 
                        track/album/artist each line.

Searching

Searching for tracks, albums and videos is now supported.

Usage: python redsea.py search [track/album/video] [name of song/video, spaces are allowed]

Example: python redsea.py search video Darkside Alan Walker

ID downloading

Download an album/track/artist/video/playlist with just the ID instead of an URL

Usage: python redsea.py id [album/track/artist/video/playlist ID]

Example: python redsea.py id id 92265335

Exploring

Exploring new Dolby Atmos or 360 Reality Audio releases is now supported

Usage: python redsea.py explore (atmos|360) (albums|tracks)

Example: python redsea.py explore atmos tracks

Example: python redsea.py explore 360 albums

Lyrics Support

Redsea supports retrieving synchronized lyrics from the services LyricFind via Deezer, and Musixmatch, automatically falling back if one doesn't have lyrics, depending on the configuration

Tidal issues

• Sometimes, tracks will be tagged with a useless version (for instance, "(album version)"), or have the same version twice "(album version)(album version)". This is because tracks in Tidal are not consistent in terms of metadata - sometimes a version may be included in the track title, included in the version field, or both.

• Tracks may be tagged with an inaccurate release year; this may be because of Tidal only having the "rerelease" or "remastered" version but showing it as the original.

To do/Whishlist

• ID based downloading (check if ID is a track, album, video, ...)
• Complete mediadownloader.py rewrite
• Move lyrics support to tagger.py
• Support for being used as a python module (maybe pip?)
• Maybe Spotify playlist support
• Artist album/video download (which downloads all albums/videos from a given artist)

Config reference

BRUTEFORCEREGION: When True, redsea will iterate through every available account and attempt to download when the default or specified session fails to download the release

Stock Presets

default: FLAC 44.1k / 16bit only

best_available: Download the highest available quality (MQA > FLAC > 320 > 96)

mqa_flac: Accept both MQA 24bit and FLAC 16bit

MQA: Only allow FLAC 44.1k / 24bit (includes 'folded' 96k content)

FLAC: FLAC 44.1k / 16bit only

320: AAC ~320 VBR only

96: AAC ~96 VBR only

Preset Configuration Variables

keep_cover_jpg: Whether to keep the cover.jpg file in the album directory

embed_album_art: Whether to embed album art or not into the file.

save_album_json: save the album metadata as a json file

tries: How many times to attempt to get a valid stream URL.

path: Base download directory

convert_to_alac: Converts a .flac file to an ALAC .m4a file (requires ffmpeg)

save_credits_txt: Saves a {track_format}.txt file with the file containing all the credits of a specific song

embed_credits: Embeds all the credits tags inside a FLAC/MP4 file

save_lyrics_lrc: Saves synced lyrics as .lrc using the Deezer API (from deemix) or musiXmatch

embed_lyrics: Embed the unsynced lyrics inside a FLAC/MP4 file

lyrics_provider_order: Defines the order (from left to right) you want to get the lyrics from

genre_language: Select the language of the genres from Deezer to en-US, de, fr, ...

artwork_size: Downloads (artwork_size)x(artwork_size) album covers from iTunes, set it to 0 to disable iTunes cover

resolution: Which resolution you want to download the videos

Album/track format

Format variables are {title}, {artist}, {album}, {tracknumber}, {discnumber}, {date}, {quality}, {explicit}.

• {quality} has a whitespace in front, so it will look like this " [Dolby Atmos]", " [360]" or " [M]" according to the downloaded quality

• {explicit} has a whitespace in front, so it will look like this " [E]"

track_format: How tracks are formatted. The relevant extension is appended to the end.

album_format: Base album directory - tracks and cover art are stored here. May have slashes in it, for instance {artist}/{album}.

playlist_format: How playlist tracks are formatted, same as track_format just with {playlistnumber} added

Video format

Format variables are {title}, {artist}, {tracknumber}, {discnumber}, {date}, {quality}, {explicit}.

• {quality} has a whitespace in front, so it will look like this " [1080P]" according to the highest available resolution returned by the API

• {explicit} has a whitespace in front, so it will look like this " [E]"

video_file_format: How video filenames are formatted. The '.mp4' extension is appended to the end.

video_folder_format: The video directory - tmp files and cover art are stored here. May have slashes in it, for instance {artist}/{title}.