tidalrpc

Discord Rich Presence for Tidal — displays your current Tidal track (title, artist, album, album art, progress bar) in your Discord status. Standalone EXE for Windows, no runtime dependencies. Runs without a console window as an icon in the system tray.

How it works

• Reading the track — via the Windows System Media Transport Controls (C++/WinRT). The session whose app ID contains tidal is selected.
• Discord — local IPC named pipe (discord-ipc-0), SET_ACTIVITY with type: 2 ("Listening to …").
• Cover art — Tidal Search API → resources.tidal.com image URL. If the Tidal token fails, the iTunes Search API is used as a fallback.

Building

Requirements: Visual Studio 2022 with C++ workload + Windows SDK.

build.bat

Output: tidalrpc.exe in the project folder.

Alternatively with CMake:

cmake -B build -A x64
cmake --build build --config Release

Usage

1. Start the Discord desktop app (not in the browser — browser Discord has no IPC pipe, Rich Presence does not work there).
2. Start Tidal and play something.
3. Run tidalrpc.exe — an icon appears in the system tray.

• Right-click the tray icon → current track + Exit.
• Hover over the icon → tooltip with status.
• The Play on Tidal button in Discord opens the browser by default — Discord only allows http(s) links in buttons, not tidal://. The optional redirect page (see below) makes the click launch the desktop app instead.

Button click → Tidal desktop app (optional)

Spotify's "Listen on Spotify" is a built-in Discord integration and cannot be replicated for third-party apps. To make the button click open the desktop app anyway, the included redirect.html serves as a bridge (https://… → tidal://track/<id>):

1. Create a public GitHub repo and upload redirect.html.
2. Go to Settings → Pages → branch main, folder /root → Save.
3. Note the resulting URL, e.g. https://YOURNAME.github.io/tidalrpc/redirect.html.
4. Enter this URL in src/main.cpp at REDIRECT_BASE.
5. Rebuild (build.bat).

Click the button → redirect page → browser prompts "Open Tidal?" → desktop app launches. If the app is not installed, the page falls back to the web player.

• Discord and Tidal can be restarted at any time — the connection is restored automatically.
• Only one instance runs at a time.

Configuration

The Discord application ID is set in src/main.cpp (APP_ID). The displayed name in "… listening to " is the name of the Discord app in the Developer Portal.