OxiTide

OxiTide is a high-resolution TIDAL player for Linux, macOS and Windows, written in Rust — a GTK4 front-end on Linux, a native SwiftUI front-end on macOS, a native WinUI 3 one on Windows, all on the same playback engine.

It is the native successor to hiresTI — same bit-perfect playback engine, same USB Rawlink direct-to-DAC output, rebuilt from the ground up with a native Rust UI: faster startup, lower memory, no Python runtime.

• Bit-perfect playback — untouched PCM straight to your DAC
• USB Rawlink (Linux) — direct USB audio transport, bypassing the OS mixer entirely
• CoreAudio Exclusive mode (macOS) — hog mode plus integer mode, the DAC's native rate and format
• WASAPI Exclusive mode (Windows) — the system mixer out of the path, the device at the track's own rate and bit depth
• Hi-Res / FLAC streaming with gapless playback
• Native performance — a single self-contained binary, instant startup
• Spectrum visualizer, level meter, synced lyrics, MPRIS integration

Browsing and playback are the same on all three platforms; a few extras are still Linux-only. The feature matrix and roadmap tracks what each build has today and what is coming next.

Linux — GTK4 / libadwaita. The window is decorated by your desktop, so the title bar matches the rest of KDE or GNOME.

GNOME

KDE Plasma

macOS — SwiftUI

Windows — WinUI 3

OxiTide is free to use. Packages for every supported distribution, the macOS app and the Windows build are on the Releases page.

macOS 14 or later; Apple silicon and Intel in one bundle.

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/yelanxin/OxiTide/main/install.sh | bash

Downloads the newest build, verifies its checksum, puts OxiTide.app in Applications and clears it to open. Re-run it to update.

By hand instead: unzip OxiTide-<ver>-macos-universal.zip from Releases into Applications. The build is not notarized yet, so the first launch needs System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway.

The project does not have an Apple Developer membership yet, which is what signing and notarizing require. Sponsorship is very welcome and goes towards it: with the membership in place the macOS build will be signed, and it will open without any warning.

For bit-perfect playback turn on Exclusive access in Settings → Audio: OxiTide takes the device in CoreAudio hog mode and runs it at the track's own rate and bit depth. Settings and login live in ~/Library/Application Support/OxiTide, logs in ~/Library/Logs/OxiTide/oxitide.log.

A few of the Linux build's extras are not ported yet — the feature matrix tracks what each build has.

Windows 10 (1809 or later) or Windows 11, 64-bit. Two downloads on the Releases page, neither needing a runtime installed first:

The builds are not code-signed yet, so the first launch shows "Windows protected your PC": choose More info → Run anyway.

The project does not have a code-signing certificate yet. Sponsorship is very welcome and goes towards one: a signed build no longer trips SmartScreen.

Output goes through WASAPI, shared with other apps on a first run. For bit-perfect playback turn on exclusive mode in Settings → Output: the system mixer is out of the path and the device runs at the track's own rate and bit depth. Settings and the session token live in %APPDATA%\OxiTide, the engine's engine.log beside the executable.

The Now Playing page, the visualizer, the DSP chain, scrobbling, media keys and the tray icon are not ported yet — the feature matrix tracks what each build has.

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/yelanxin/OxiTide/main/install.sh | bash

Detects your distribution, downloads the matching package from the newest release that has one, and installs it with your native package manager (x86_64: Arch, Debian 13+, Ubuntu 24.04+, Fedora 43+, openSUSE Tumbleweed — and their derivatives). The same script installs the macOS build on a Mac.

Available on any distribution with snapd:

sudo snap install oxitide

If audio output or your USB DAC is not detected, connect the audio interfaces once (not needed after the store enables auto-connection):

sudo snap connect oxitide:alsa
sudo snap connect oxitide:raw-usb

Available on any distribution from the official OxiTide Flatpak repository (flatpak.oxitide.com):

flatpak install --user https://flatpak.oxitide.com/oxitide.flatpakref

Launch it from the app menu, or with flatpak run io.github.yelanxin.OxiTide. The GNOME runtime is fetched from Flathub automatically. For bit-perfect USB Rawlink output the app asks you to install a one-line udev rule on first use (the Flatpak sandbox cannot install it itself).

Distribution	Install
Arch Linux / Manjaro / CachyOS	yay -S oxitide-bin (AUR: oxitide-bin) — or sudo pacman -U oxitide-<ver>-1-x86_64_archlinux.pkg.tar.zst
Debian 13+	sudo apt install ./oxitide_<ver>_amd64_debian13.deb
Ubuntu 24.04 / 26.04	sudo apt install ./oxitide_<ver>_amd64_ubuntu2404.deb (or _ubuntu2604.deb)
Fedora 43 / 44	sudo dnf install ./oxitide-<ver>-1.fedora.x86_64_fedora44.rpm (or _fedora43.rpm)
openSUSE Tumbleweed	sudo zypper install ./oxitide-<ver>-1.opensuse.x86_64_opensuse_tumbleweed.rpm

Requirements: a TIDAL subscription and GTK 4.14+ (Debian 12 is not supported). For bit-perfect USB Rawlink output the package installs a udev rule and a polkit action so the app can claim your DAC — the first use asks for authorization.

Settings and login live in ~/.config/oxitide, so OxiTide installs cleanly alongside hiresTI.

Re-run the quick-install command above (it always picks the latest release and upgrades in place), or download the new package and install it the same way. AUR: yay -Syu. Flatpak: flatpak update. Snap updates automatically. The app also checks for new releases itself (Check for Updates in the menu).

OxiTide is proprietary freeware — free to download and use, not open source. Redistribution of modified binaries is not permitted. Third-party open-source components are acknowledged in the THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES file shipped with each release.

Looking for the open-source edition? The Python/GTK version lives on at hiresTI (GPL-3.0).

Bug reports and feature requests are welcome in the Issues of this repository.

OxiTide is an independent project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by TIDAL.