tidalamp 0.1.0

The first public release of tidalamp: a TIDAL client for the Linux terminal, with real
hi-res playback and a retro player interface.

Highlights

• Hi-res all the way to the DAC. It asks for HI_RES_LOSSLESS by default and plays
  FLAC up to 24 bit/192 kHz, with the stream's depth and rate on screen. The settings
  window detects and fixes the case where PipeWire resamples a 24/96 stream down to
  48 kHz while every indicator goes on telling the truth about the stream, and warns
  when the output is a Bluetooth sink.
• A complete TUI: seven-segment clock, scrolling title, 19-band analyzer, seek bar and
  volume and balance sliders.
• Playback through mpv over an IPC socket, restarted automatically if the process
  dies. No software attenuation and no filters: with the balance centred and the
  equalizer flat, the signal is untouched.
• Search, a paginated library, favourites and a queue that survives a restart.
• Synced lyrics, a ten-band equalizer, and cover art in kitty, sixel or half blocks.
• A real spectrum through cava, falling back to an RMS meter that says which of the two
  you are looking at.
• Full MPRIS2, TrackList included, so the desktop's media keys and its now-playing
  panel work.
• Four layouts and any palette, following an active Omarchy theme or one of the
  built-ins.
• A bilingual interface that follows the system locale.

Installation

Requires Python 3.11 or later and mpv installed on the system.

pipx install "tidalamp[art]"

cava is optional and is what turns the analyzer into a real FFT. Per-distribution
commands are in the README.

The full list of changes is in
CHANGELOG.md.