
Neptune mod is no longer accessible for Tidal. How pity! It enhances Tidal's desktop client experience with custom plugins and features. If you have installed Neptune before, or you also want to install some plugins to modify your Tidal streaming experience, you can try another powerful and useful mod: Tidaluna.
So, in this post, we will share you how Tidaluna works and how to install it step-by-step. Are you ready for it? Let's move on.
Part 1. What Is Tidaluna?
Tidaluna is an open-source github to help Tidal users enhance and modify the using experience on Tidal desktop client. Tialuna is successor to Neptune mod and same to attribute for improving Tidal users' streaming feeling. In my opinion, Tidaluna is advanced Tidal application: it can edit the Theme of Tidal, change the lyrics colors, and give you beniefit to obtain tidal functions like Tidal Connect and Exclusive mode.
How Tidaluna works:
- Enhance Tidal Desktop Client: Tidaluna provides new features and improves the standard Tidal desktop app.
- Built-in Plugin Store: Once Tidal users install Tidaluna, they can install various plugins from Plugin Store to extend Tidal desktop client's functionality.
- Customize Playlists: Tidaluna supports users to custom playlists' covers, providing more personalized using experience.
- Multiple OS Supported: Tidaluna supports Tidal desktops app on Windows, MacOS and the Tidal-Hifi app on Linux
Part 2. How to Get Tidaluna
Before getting Tidaluna from Github, you need to make sure that you have installed Tidal desktop app on your device. Additionally, The Microsoft Store's Tidal version is unsupported by Tidaluna, you'd better uninstall and reinstall Tidal desktop app from Tidal website. One more thing, you need to end up Tidal working process in your computer to make sure Tidaluna successfully installation.
You can try two ways to install Tidaluna: Using installer or manual adding.
Via Tidaluna Installer
- Go to Tidaluna installer Github repository.
- Scroll down to Downloads section, click Releases page to choose the latest file that is compatible with your running system. Source code also need to download.
- After files downloading, you can click twice to open Tidaluna Insatller.
- Under Release Channel, click down option to choose the Tidaluna version you want to download.
- Keep the Adavaced options and tap Install button.
- Tidaluna installer will keep your choice and start downloading Tidaluna.
- Wait for seconds, and it will show you the finishing window.
- Then you can go to Tidal and enjoy Tidaluna beta now.


Via Manual Install
- Go to Tidaluna Github releases page
- Choose the latest version of Tidaluna files to install, and save luna.zip to your local.
- Navigate to Tidal installer resources folder:
- Rename app.asar to original.asar.
- Exacuate luna.zip into a folder named app in the resources directly alongside original.asar
- The install of Tidaluna is done.

Windows: %localappdata%\TIDAL\app-x.xx.x\resources
MacOS: /Applications/TIDAL.app/Contents/Resources
Linux: /opt/tidal-hifi/resources
Quick Fix to Tidaluna Install Issues
Remenber to download the source code of Tidaluna (luna.zip) and Tidaluna Install.
If your Tidaluna Installer say lost connect or prevented by web stock, you can delete the files and re-download to solve it.
Check the downloading path, especially if you choose manual installation.
Choose the latest version of Tidaluna.
Part 3. How to Mangae Tidaluna
How to Remove Tidaluna
If you want to remove or manage Tidaluna, you can follow the steps below:
- Go to Tidal installation directory to find the Tidal resources.
- Rename original.asar to app.asar.
- Delete app folder.
- Open Tidal client on your computer and you can enjoy Tidal official version.

How to Install Plugins
- Open Tidal app on your device.
- Click More option next to your Profile.
- Choose Luna Settings and you will enter the detailed page.
- Hit PLUGIN STORE tab, and you can select the desired plugins you want to install.

Recommendations of Plugins
🎖️DesktopConnect: Allow you to remote control the Tidal Desktop client via Tidal Connect.
🎖️RealMAX: Playback the real Max audio quality when you play Tidal in Hi-Res version.
🎖️NoBuffer: Protect you from Tidal's suddenly stutter or stall.
🎖️Song Downloader: Help you to save Tidal tracks in FLAC files.
Bonus Tip: Alternative Way to Download Tidal as FLAC Format
Although there is plugin on Tidaluna can help you to transfer Tidal tracks in FLAC, remember, the github is unstable. It may be unusable for the unconscious project destroy. So, we recommend you a more stable and convenient way: ViWizard Tidal Music Converter.
ViWizard is a reliable and professional Tidal music converter. It provides many downloading audio formats: MP3, FLAC, M4A, M4B, WAV, and AIFF. Despite the audio format, ViWizard also provides you to personalize the sample rate, bitrate and bit depth of the Tidal downloads, which up to 19.2 kHz, 24 bit and 768 kbps. ViWizard also support you to edit the original ID3 tags of Tidal tracks, you can personalize the cover of playlists, albums, or single track.
Download music from Tidal to MP3, FLAC, M4A, M4B, WAV, or AIFF. Works for all users. Listen offline anytime.
Step 1 Choose FLAC as Output Format
Open ViWizard on your computer, log in with your Tidal account. Then click the three lines icon to choose Preferences. You can scroll down to conversion section to tap FLAC as the downloading format. You can also adjust the sample rate and bit depth according to you require. After selection, tap on OK button to save the change.

Step 2 Select Tidal Playlist
Head back to the built-in Tidal web player on ViWizard, you can choose the song from Tidal's home page or you collection. And you can hit the Add to List icon to add song or playlist to the conversion list. Or you can directly paste the URL of the desired Tidal content in Tidal search bar, ViWizard will recognize and display the tracks in screen.

Step 3 Download Tidal Tracks to Local
Once checking the convert list, you can click the convert button to start the downloading process. Wait for minutes, ViWizard will inform you the process is done with instant message. And then you can check the downloads in History window or your designated folder.

Conclusion
With Tidaluna, Tidal's desktop client seems more powerful and multifunction. If you want to get advanced Tidal experiences or dissatisfied with functions Tidal official provides, follow the ultimate Tidaluna installation tutorial! We're glad you can have a better user experience on streaming Tidal.

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