Tidal is one of the most popular streaming music services behind Spotify or Apple Music. Today we will show you how to use Tidal in the car through different methods.
Listening to music in the car is a habit for many drivers every day on their journeys. In the car we can choose different options when it comes to listening to music such as the radio , listening to our music via bluetooth, if our radio allows it, or using streaming music services such as Tidal, either through the mobile phone connected to our car by Bluetooth or via Android Auto / Carplay.
Let’s remember that the main difference that Tidal has with respect to the rest is the sound quality it offers us, since unlike Spotify Premium that offers 320 kbps, Tidal offers us the sound in FLAC format, the same sound quality that we can find on a physical disk, but online.
If we have a modern car, it is possible that it is either compatible with Android Auto and Carplay or that it has its own navigation system through which we can access different multimedia services. Or if we have an older car to which we have changed the radio, we can connect our mobile via bluetooth or auxiliary connection.
Tidal via Android Auto / Carplay
To be able to enjoy Tidal in Android Auto, we will only have to start the app in the Android Auto framework, as we saw in the Android Auto guide.
- Once we have started the Android Auto app, we will click on the button which has a headset icon.
- Next, the interface will be shown differently, since three sections will appear: ” My music “, ” Explore “, ” My downloads “.
- Once we have chosen the section, we will select if we want to listen to songs, a playlist or, in the case of the “ Explore ” section, the genre in question we are looking for.
- Afterwards, all you have to do is choose the music before getting behind the wheel and enjoying the journey.
Tidal on Waze
Waze is one of the most popular navigation apps among drivers due to the reliability it possesses when it comes to notifying us of accidents, objects on the road, radars … for this reason, we believe that it may be useful to know how to enjoy Tidal within this app.
First of all, we must emphasize that both Tidal and Waze are apps compatible with Android Auto, although we do not always have to use it in the car, so we may want to know how to enjoy our Tidal playlist in Waze .
- When we choose Tidal, Waze will ask us for a series of permissions which we must grant in order to have a quick menu and see the song we are playing, go to the next one or choose playslits. The biggest shortcoming is that we cannot choose the song we want to play from said quick access.
- To begin, we must open the Waze app.
- At the top right, a music icon will appear. We will click on this icon and we will link, in this case, our Tidal account despite the fact that this platform is also compatible with Spotify.
- In fact, if we have both services, we can have both accounts linked.
- Finally, we will open the Tidal app to select what we want to listen to and return to Waze, which is where we can perform many controls such as pausing the song, moving to the next, changing the playlist …
Connect Tidal via Bluetooth
If our car has Bluetooth, we will only have to pair our car with our smartphone and then open the Tidal application. Sometimes when we start to play music, the audio does not usually come out through the car speakers for a few seconds, as it happens with the headphones.
It should be noted that, if we have controls on the steering wheel or on the radio itself , in general, these are usually compatible and we can go to the next song and pause or play the song again.
- We pair our mobile and the car via Bluetooth.
- We open the Tidal app and select what we want to listen to.
It is a very valid option for those who have their own playlist on Tidal and can thus enjoy music offline and thus listen to the music we like wherever we are.
Connect Tidal by 3.5mm jack / aux connection
It is the simplest method that exists to be able to reproduce Tidal in the car. To do this, we will only have to open Tidal on our mobile and plug the 3.5mm jack cable to our mobile.
If our mobile does not have a headphone jack, we will only have to put a USB type C adapter to a 3.5mm female jack and through it we can connect our music to our car. This adapter is usually included in the box of our mobile , although if we cannot find it for any reason we can get it for little money.
In this way, we can have the audio through the car speakers. The factors to take into account are that our radio has a 3.5mm jack and a 3.5 male – male jack cable which we can buy for little money.
Car navigator
It is possible that Tidal is available in an application store which has its own system, such as the Mercedes . In these cars we can have all our playlists on the dashboard of the car.
The process in this type of system is usually identical to the rest, since as the car has an Internet connection, we must enter our email and password in order to access all our playlists.
