Did Tidal encrypted their videos?

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  1. leolokm

    leolokm Well-Known Member

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    Hi there!

    I was trying to download a 1080p video from Tidal with IDM as usual and now it seems they decided to divide their videos in sections now. I tried using Tidal GUI but all I get is the 360p version of the video...

    Is this because of the new Tidal webpage layout?

    How do you download 1080p videos now?

    thank you so much in advance.
     
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  3. medicine

    medicine Well-Known Member Uploader V . I . P.

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    I can try to get it for you. can you please post the link?
     
  4. nickiexclusive

    nickiexclusive for Nicki Minaj, Ariana Grande and Blackpink Uploader V . I . P.

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    still working for me
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    but they did some changing for sure. better grab all fast before its too late.
     
  5. leolokm

    leolokm Well-Known Member

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    I'm actually trying to get these videos from a group called Hooverphonic:

    https://tidal.com/browse/video/164567110
    https://tidal.com/browse/video/145419056
    https://tidal.com/browse/video/108921242
    https://tidal.com/browse/video/117045021
    https://tidal.com/browse/video/94945076
    https://tidal.com/browse/video/59933970
    https://tidal.com/browse/video/57945161
    https://tidal.com/browse/video/54054810
    https://tidal.com/browse/video/23607942
    https://tidal.com/browse/video/25634770
    https://tidal.com/browse/video/29423824

    I really hope you can help me, I've been trying all day to bypass the issue with no luck.

    Thank you so much in advance!

    @nickiexclusive which download method did you use?
     
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  6. nickiexclusive

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  7. medicine

    medicine Well-Known Member Uploader V . I . P.

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    Some of these videos are not available on Tidal, and "Mad about you" is only available on 480p

    Here is the link:
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  8. leolokm

    leolokm Well-Known Member

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    I can't
    thank you so so much for taking the time of downloading and uploading the videos!

    @medicine sorry to bother you, but did you try this version of Mas About You (2020)?

    https://tidal.com/browse/video/164567110

    The other one is the original 90's video.
     
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  9. fabriccio

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    One thing I will clarify is that tidal is not encrypting the video files, what is happening is that tidal made some changes to the way segmented .ts files are requested and then Tidal downloader encodes it to mp4 and the problem It is in that now tidal by default when playing a video it will be at 480p and after a few seconds it will be adjusted to 1080p or it will also be changed manually
    and when this happens tidal downloader even if it requests 1080p or 720p the server will respond with 480p because it gets the first 0.ts file of 480p and it thinks it is 1080p but in reality it is not.
    this is due to the new design of tidal
     
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    I'm not able to download video from Tidal with IDM, as well.
     
  11. Samuel

    Samuel Well-Known Member Uploader Ripper

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    Usually, I grab the m3u8 stream file from the stream and throw it in YouTube-DL. Works like a charm.
     
  12. medicine

    medicine Well-Known Member Uploader V . I . P.

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    That last link says the content it's no longer available :/
     
  13. leolokm

    leolokm Well-Known Member

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    Really? It must be because our different territories. Thank you so much for your help again!
     
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    fabriccio Active Member

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    there is a way to download videos from tidal and it works and i still use it, if you want me to help you contact me by PM
     
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    Ya no puedo descargar videos de tidal. Podrías ayudarme, te lo agradecería mucho ;) @fabriccio
     
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    Samuel Well-Known Member Uploader Ripper

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    You guys have a TIDAL account? I wanna login and see what's wrong with the stream.
     
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    Samuel Well-Known Member Uploader Ripper

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    @Djodjara @amscity @leolokm
    It's not encrypted. It's probably the stream link format change, that's why IDM couldn't recognize it.

    There's the master manifest file.

    Manual grab it for now. lol.
     
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    markitomg Well-Known Member Uploader

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    Hi @Samuel how can I do these downloads in the manual way?
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  19. fabriccio

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    use N_m3u8DL-CLI
     
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    markitomg Well-Known Member Uploader

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    Can you explain me how to use it?
     
  21. Samuel

    Samuel Well-Known Member Uploader Ripper

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