streamrip [Question] Tidal "Retrying with lower quality" clarification

Describe the bug

WARNING Failed to get manifest for (song). Retrying with lower quality. tidal.py:156

Does this mean that the highest quality option does not exist for this track at all on tidal, or in fact does exist and currently streamrip is unable to access it due to the api changes in the past year?

Command Used

rip url https://listen.tidal.com/album/id

Config File

...
[tidal]
# 0: 256kbps AAC, 1: 320kbps AAC, 2: 16/44.1 "HiFi" FLAC, 3: 24/44.1 "MQA" FLAC
quality = 3
...

Operating System

Linux

streamrip version

dev

Feb 17 '25 02:02 girlmaya

I have upgraded to the latest version 2.1.0, still has this problem with tidal

operating system windows 11

Mar 13 '25 02:03 wuhuarourou

I have also upgraded to version 2.1.0 and still have the same issue.

Mar 19 '25 04:03 kingezk

Getting the same issue. I'm running version 2.1.0 from the dev branch and downloading from Norway.

Mar 24 '25 14:03 hexahigh

Please create a new issue - this was just a question

Mar 26 '25 05:03 girlmaya

It could be both. You should just check on Tidal what is available.

Mar 26 '25 17:03 rexjohannes

or

Getting the same issue. Im running version 2.1.0, i tried different artist, different albums, and different browsers, but i still getting this message. Does someone has any idea how to fix this?

Mar 27 '25 14:03 DaveTheLol

I'm no Python expert by any means, but if someone could look at the code in streamrip/client/tidal.py I notice an error about not able to retrieve the manifest. Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the manifest embedded as base64 XML in a JSON? It looks like it's trying to read it as a JSON. I did try to remove the json.loads part and it did try to read the manifest but somewhere it's not reading the XML. I believe this is the whole reason HIRES isn't working.

Mar 27 '25 19:03 RyanThaDude

forget about it, im using 2.05, has never worked there either. i always use 16/44 setting, never had any problem. if you want higher bitrate and believe it sounds better you should use tidal downloader NG, it works flawless. set it to extract flac and hi res lossless in setting and you get 24/192 if the album says it or whatever quality it offers 24/48, 24/96....oh and the ui version is very handy to use for those higher albums.

Apr 01 '25 01:04 snopptobbe

forget about it, im using 2.05, has never worked there either. i always use 16/44 setting, never had any problem. if you want higher bitrate and believe it sounds better you should use tidal downloader NG, it works flawless. set it to extract flac and hi res lossless in setting and you get 24/192 if the album says it or whatever quality it offers 24/48, 24/96....oh and the ui version is very handy to use for those higher albums.

thank you very much!

Apr 01 '25 02:04 wuhuarourou