[Feature request] Play non-Tidal locally stored music

[GrainySnapshot]

Your app is great; Tidal is great but it is not as good as your app. Tidal is missing too much music. For example, it has Sufjan Stevens' "Illinoise" but not "The Avalanche", which is outtakes etc from the same sessions. As a matter of the technology, there seems to be no reason why your app could not play music from the WP music library. It should be possible to "shuffle all" across both the Tidal music and the local music library. Maybe it could create playlists combining both but I note there might be an issue with Tidal's design expecting such playlists to be synchronized with the user's web account. If you have concern about whether such a feature might violate Tidal's developer license I would be happy to review those terms and give you my view. I do not have a Tidal developer account so I cannot access the developer license. I have reviewed the standard license terms. Those terms explicitly mention third party applications and user content. There is no restriction on a third party application playing user content.

[simonferquel]

For now this feature is a bit out of scope (it involves much coding: handling all the possible file types that you have in your library, + indexing / keeping in sync the content + having 2 formats of playlists - pure Tidal and hybrid). I keep it in the issue tracker but I don't promise that I would work on it anytime soon.

[GrainySnapshot]

Cool. Thanks. I think you could reasonably limit the feature to flac files only. That would be consistent with the Tidal lossless philosophy. It might mean that you can re-use the player engine. For a bare bones implementation maybe you would also limit playback of local files to adding them to the "now playing" queue. I expect that involves managing a different kind of playlist in a sense but then you might not have to worry about storing it anywhere.

[spbuda]

Unfortunately, this is probably the most important feature for a music player to have, and the reason that I'm not going to be using this service. I have been looking for a replacement to Amazon music since it works so poorly. Tidal will not be it.