TIDAL Music MCP server

The TIDAL MCP server provides personalized music recommendations and playlist management for your TIDAL account. It allows you to make highly specific music requests that consider your listening history along with custom criteria you specify, helping you discover music that better matches your preferences.

Prerequisites

Before getting started, ensure you have:

• Python 3.10 or newer
• uv package manager installed
• An active TIDAL subscription

Installation

Setting Up the MCP Server

1. Clone the repository and navigate to the project directory:

   git clone https://github.com/yuhuacheng/tidal-mcp.git
   cd tidal-mcp
   

2. Create and activate a virtual environment:

   uv venv
   source .venv/bin/activate  # On Windows: .venv\Scripts\activate
   

3. Install the package with all required dependencies:

   uv pip install --editable .
   

Configuring with Claude Desktop

Adding the MCP Server to Claude

You'll need to update the MCP configuration file in Claude Desktop:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "TIDAL Integration": {
      "command": "/path/to/your/uv",
      "env": {
        "TIDAL_MCP_PORT": "5100"
      },
      "args": [
        "run",
        "--with",
        "requests",
        "--with",
        "mcp[cli]",
        "--with",
        "flask",
        "--with",
        "tidalapi",
        "mcp",
        "run",
        "/path/to/your/project/tidal-mcp/mcp_server/server.py"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Configuration Steps

1. Open Claude Desktop
2. Navigate to Settings > Developer
3. Click "Edit Config"
4. Paste your JSON configuration (modify paths as needed)
5. Save the configuration
6. Restart Claude Desktop

Using TIDAL MCP

Once configured, you can interact with your TIDAL account through Claude using natural language. Here are some example prompts:

• "Recommend songs like those in this playlist, but slower and more acoustic."
• "Create a playlist based on my top tracks, but focused on chill, late-night vibes."
• "Find songs like these in playlist XYZ but in languages other than English."

Usage Tips

• Request more tracks as seeds to broaden the recommendations
• Ask for more recommendations if you want a longer playlist
• You can delete playlists you no longer want

Available Tools

The TIDAL MCP integration provides these tools:

• tidal_login: Authenticate with TIDAL through browser login flow
• get_favorite_tracks: Retrieve your favorite tracks from TIDAL
• recommend_tracks: Get personalized music recommendations
• create_tidal_playlist: Create a new playlist in your TIDAL account
• get_user_playlists: List all your playlists on TIDAL
• get_playlist_tracks: Retrieve all tracks from a specific playlist
• delete_tidal_playlist: Delete a playlist from your TIDAL account

How to install this MCP server

For Claude Code

To add this MCP server to Claude Code, run this command in your terminal:

claude mcp add-json "TIDAL-Integration" '{"command":"/path/to/your/uv","env":{"TIDAL_MCP_PORT":"5100"},"args":["run","--with","requests","--with","mcp[cli]","--with","flask","--with","tidalapi","mcp","run","/path/to/your/project/tidal-mcp/mcp_server/server.py"]}'

See the official Claude Code MCP documentation for more details.

For Cursor

There are two ways to add an MCP server to Cursor. The most common way is to add the server globally in the ~/.cursor/mcp.json file so that it is available in all of your projects.

If you only need the server in a single project, you can add it to the project instead by creating or adding it to the .cursor/mcp.json file.

Adding an MCP server to Cursor globally

To add a global MCP server go to Cursor Settings > Tools & Integrations and click "New MCP Server".

When you click that button the ~/.cursor/mcp.json file will be opened and you can add your server like this:

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "TIDAL Integration": {
            "command": "/path/to/your/uv",
            "env": {
                "TIDAL_MCP_PORT": "5100"
            },
            "args": [
                "run",
                "--with",
                "requests",
                "--with",
                "mcp[cli]",
                "--with",
                "flask",
                "--with",
                "tidalapi",
                "mcp",
                "run",
                "/path/to/your/project/tidal-mcp/mcp_server/server.py"
            ]
        }
    }
}

Adding an MCP server to a project

To add an MCP server to a project you can create a new .cursor/mcp.json file or add it to the existing one. This will look exactly the same as the global MCP server example above.

How to use the MCP server

Once the server is installed, you might need to head back to Settings > MCP and click the refresh button.

The Cursor agent will then be able to see the available tools the added MCP server has available and will call them when it needs to.

You can also explicitly ask the agent to use the tool by mentioning the tool name and describing what the function does.

For Claude Desktop

To add this MCP server to Claude Desktop:

1. Find your configuration file:

• macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
• Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json
• Linux: ~/.config/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

2. Add this to your configuration file:

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "TIDAL Integration": {
            "command": "/path/to/your/uv",
            "env": {
                "TIDAL_MCP_PORT": "5100"
            },
            "args": [
                "run",
                "--with",
                "requests",
                "--with",
                "mcp[cli]",
                "--with",
                "flask",
                "--with",
                "tidalapi",
                "mcp",
                "run",
                "/path/to/your/project/tidal-mcp/mcp_server/server.py"
            ]
        }
    }
}

3. Restart Claude Desktop for the changes to take effect