How to Save Tidal Music to SD Card [Easy Guide]

"I'm a music lover listing to the Tidal music on my Android phone. Recently, my phone's internal storage was used up. So I'd like to transfer Tidal downloaded audio files to SD card. Unfortunately, I was failed because the Tidal app can't recognize my SD card. Could I ask that someone can move Tidal music to SD card successful? Thanks in advance."Question from a Tidal music user in forum.

Caching Tidal music to SD card is a convenient way to listen to them in anytime even without internet connection. But there are so many troubles you need to solve when syncing Tidal audios to SD card. To solve this issue and enjoy Tidal music more easily, here we will introduce the best two ways to download Tidal to SD card and move local Tidal songs to SD card effortlessly.

Part 1. How to Directly Cache Tidal Music to External SD Card

Have you tried to stream Tidal files to SD card ever on your phone? If you also met some obstacles, here you need to know the deep reason of this issue.

In order to save music into SD card, you Android phone's running system should be 5.0 or later version. Otherwise, you are allowed to download Tidal songs to phone internal storage only.

Check your SD card memory to insure it have a lot of space to save the Tidal files. If not, please change a large one.

After everything is already, now you can refer to the following tutorial to learn how to make Tidal songs playable in the SD card.

Step 1. Launch Tidal software on your Android or iPhone, and then move to the "settings" option.

Step 2. Navigate to the "Music Playback">"Download Destination" settings to open a new window.

Step 3. Now you will see two different choices, "Internal" and "Memory Card". Please select the 'Memory Card' option directly.

Step 4. Simply start to download Tidal music offline and all the songs will be saved on SD card automatically.

Part 2. Another Way to Save Tidal Downloads to SD Card

As we have mentioned above, Tidal music files are cached in your SD card. In this case, once you stopped Tidal subscription, all these songs will can’t play automatically. And you can't make use of the other players to read this kind of Tidal music in your SD card. In other words, it’s impossible to listen to Tidal music on other devices.

Whether is it an effect way to save music to SD card and make it playable on any devices freely? Fortunately, here you met AudFree Tidal Music Converter. It supports to convert Tidal music to MP3 with keeping the original audio quality. Besides, this professional software also can download Tidal music songs/albums/playlists to WAV, AAC, FLAC, and other plain formats so that you can save them to SD card and listen to your phone freely.

Now, let's see how to save Tidal Music to SD Card with AudFree Tidal Music Converter.

Step 1. Copy and Paste Tidal Songs to AudFree Tidal Converter

When you launch Tidal Music Downloader on your computer, you will see Tidal app will be opened at the same time. (This tool needs to work with Tidal app. So please install Tidal desktop app on your computer in advance). You can discover Tidal music that you'd like to save to SD card on Tidal app, and then click this item to choose 'three-dot' icon > 'Share' > 'Copy Tidal Track' to copy Tidal link and paste it to AudFree's search box. Just click the '+' button, it will take a second to load Tidal songs.

Step 2. Set Tidal Output Format for SD Card

SD card can support a wide variety of audio files except for DRM protected tracks. Just click the top menu icon on Windows computer or the 'AudFree Tidal Music Converter for Mac' on Mac computer and then choose 'Preferences' > 'Convert' option, the setting window will be opened automatically. Now, you can start to define output format as MP3, FLAC, WAV, and others, customize the sample rate as 48,000 Hz, bit rate as 320 kbps, etc. Besides, you can also change the destination folder by clicking the 'file' icon.

Step 3. Download Tidal Music for Saving to SD Card 

Once all settings have done, please click the 'Convert' button at the bottom-right corner of the Tidal Music Downloader to start the downloading and converting process. This great tool will download and convert protected Tidal music to common audio files that can be transferred to SD card without problem. All ID3 tags can be preserved in converted Tidal files.

Step 4. Transfer Downloaded Tidal Music to SD Card

You can locate all Tidal music and playlists by clicking the 'history' > 'search' icon or just clicking the 'file' icon on destination folder on your computer. And then please insert your SD card into your computer via card reader. Once connected, please drag and drop Tidal music files to SD card folder for saving. Now, you can insert SD card included Tidal music to any other devices that support SD card for listening to Tidal songs offline.