Setting up

Firstly, a TIDAL account is required (30-day free trial available).

When you tap the TIDAL tab (shown in blue) for the first time, you will be asked to login.

Login

Use your TIDAL login details to access your account from within the LUMIN App.

If you haven't yet created a TIDAL account, you can select 'Sign Up' to jump to the TIDAL website in your browser.

To enter your TIDAL login details at any other time, you can open this login page again by going to Settings > LUMIN Options > TIDAL Setting.

Browse

Once logged in, you will see the 'What's New', TIDAL Rising, TIDAL Discovery, Playlists, Genres, Masters, and My Music links in the browse panel.

Masters is where you'll find High Resolution MQA-encoded music.

You can drill down through these to access TIDAL's recommendations and also your stored TIDAL playlists and 'Favorites'.

Search

The search box will search the entire TIDAL catalogue of music.

You can narrow your search by selecting whether you wish to view Artists, Albums, Playlists or Tracks containing your search term.

Navigation

At any point you can press the button in the top of the browse panel to see breadcrumb navigation. This list is scrollable and can take you right back to the TIDAL home screen or any step in between.

Add to the LUMIN Playlist

You can press and hold on any item in the browse window that contains just tracks to add all of its contents to the Playlist.

See App Browsing for full icon descriptions.

Add To Favorite From this menu, you can also store your slection as a TIDAL favorite, for later retrieval from the 'My Music' section.

You can also search your local servers (MinimServer in this example) or Qobuz for artists or songs of the same title. (You can also do the reverse and search TIDAL when browsing through your own server.)

Save Playlist to TIDAL

TIDAL tracks within a LUMIN Playlist can be saved to your TIDAL account.

Tap the Playlist button to open the Playlist menu, name your Playlist and then tap the TIDAL button to save it to the TIDAL account.

Your TIDAL Playlists can be retrieved from the 'My Music' section of TIDAL.

TIDAL Suggestions

TIDAL can make suggestions for similar content on their database.

Press and hold on any TIDAL track, album or artist to display a popup menu with a link to browse Suggested Tracks, Related Albums or Related Artists.

MQA & MAX icons

To help with selecting the highest quality versions of TIDAL music, MQA and MAX icons show next to any music that TIDAL have flagged as being high resolution.

Most of these high-resolution albums also have regular redbook versions on TIDAL servers, so you will often see duplicate albums when searching. Look for the MQA icon and MAX icon to distinguish between them.

These icons also appear in other parts of the LUMIN app - The Playlist (see below) and also the 'Now Playing' song title.

Note: Bit Rate and Sample Rate vary between MQA and MAX songs. The actual figures will be displayed in the 'Now Playing' area.

Playlist icons

As Playlists can contain music from a mixture of sources, there are icons to help you distinguish between them.

TIDAL music carries the TIDAL icon unless it is also MQA-encoded, in which case the MQA icon is used.

The example here shows a playlist constructed from a mixture of different sources.