Before you start

Choral is a floating remote control for macOS, not a streaming service. TIDAL continues playing in Chrome under your own account. Choral Connector sends the current track and supported controls to the Choral app through a local connection on your Mac.

You need macOS 15 or later, Google Chrome, the Choral app, and the free Choral Connector extension. The extension does not receive access to TIDAL until you explicitly enable that website.

1. Install Choral Connector

  1. Install Choral on your Mac. Download it directly or install it from the Mac App Store, then open the app.
  2. Add Choral Connector to Chrome. Open the Chrome Web Store listing and choose Add to Chrome.
  3. Keep the extension available. Open Chrome's Extensions menu and pin Choral Connector if you want its icon to stay visible in the toolbar.
The browser extension cannot be used by itself. The Choral app must be running on the same Mac for the floating player to receive track information and send controls.

2. Enable TIDAL in Chrome

  1. Open the music website. Visit https://tidal.com/ and sign in.
  2. Open Choral Connector. Click its toolbar icon while the TIDAL tab is active.
  3. Enable this site. Click Enable Choral on this site, then approve Chrome's permission prompt. Choral requests access only to the music website you are enabling.
  4. Start a song. Play a normal track on the website. The popup should change to a Ready message after Choral recognizes the player.

3. Control TIDAL from Choral

Choral reads TIDAL's current track, high-resolution artwork, duration, playback position, and queue state. Select TIDAL as the active source to route both the floating player and global shortcuts to the browser tab.

Open Choral's music-source menu and select TIDAL. This selection determines which source receives play, pause, and shortcut commands when several music apps or browser players are open at the same time.

  • Play and pause
  • Previous and next track
  • Seek within a track
  • Favorite and unfavorite
  • Shuffle
  • Repeat

You can also configure global shortcuts in Choral Settings. They work while you are using another app, so common actions do not require bringing Chrome or Choral to the front.

4. Like or favorite the current song

Click Choral's heart to use TIDAL's favorite control for the current track. The action is saved to the TIDAL account signed in within Chrome, and the heart follows the favorite state reported by the website.

If the heart is gray and cannot be clicked, the current player context has not exposed a reliable like or favorite action. Choral deliberately disables unavailable actions instead of hiding controls or guessing where to click.

What Full Support means

TIDAL is Fully Supported in Choral. Playback, previous and next, seeking, favorites, shuffle, and TIDAL's repeat modes can be controlled from the floating player.

Music websites can change their player interfaces and internal behavior. Choral's support label describes the current integration, but a future website update can temporarily affect one or more controls.

Troubleshooting

TIDAL is open but no source appears

Start a full track on tidal.com, then reopen Choral Connector. If you previously used listen.tidal.com, follow its redirect and enable the current tidal.com page.

Artwork or duration is missing

Wait until TIDAL's footer player has loaded the full track, then start playback once. Previews and advertisements may expose less metadata.

Repeat does not show the expected mode

TIDAL cycles repeat off, repeat all, and repeat one. Click once at a time and wait for the website to report its new state.

Choral Connector says the app is not connected

Open the Choral app and leave it running. The extension connects only to a local address on your Mac. If the status does not recover, quit and reopen Choral, then reopen the extension popup.

Ready to control TIDAL?

Install Choral and Choral Connector, enable the website, and start a track. Your browser keeps playing; Choral becomes the remote.

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