Tidal Visualizer

Why visualize your Tidal music?

Tidal is built around audio quality — lossless, hi-res, Dolby Atmos, Sony 360 Reality Audio. If you're paying for that level of fidelity, you should be able to see the difference. Higher-quality audio contains more frequency detail, and vizz.fm's frequency analysis picks up every bit of it.

The result is visualizations that are more detailed and responsive than what you'd get from a compressed stream. Subtle instrument layers, cleaner high-end detail, and richer bass all show up in the visuals in ways you can actually see. It's the visual equivalent of the audio upgrade you're already paying for.

How to connect Tidal to vizz.fm

Browsers don't have access to what other apps are playing — each app's audio stays isolated. The fix is a virtual audio device: a small piece of software that routes your system audio into the browser. It's a one-time setup that takes a few minutes.

1. Play something on Tidal

   Open Tidal and start playing anything. The audio just needs to be running.

2. Set up a virtual audio device

   This is the one-time setup step. Follow our system audio capture guide for step-by-step instructions for macOS (BlackHole or Loopback) and Windows (VoiceMeeter or VB-Audio Virtual Cable).

3. Open vizz.fm and select Microphone

   In the audio source picker, choose Microphone. Your browser will ask which device to use — pick your virtual audio device. The visualizer will immediately start reacting to your Tidal audio.

Platform notes

Tidal has both a desktop app and a web player. Either works with the system audio capture approach. The desktop app supports higher-quality audio tiers (HiFi Plus, Dolby Atmos), so if audio quality matters to you, use the desktop app for the richest frequency data.

On mobile?

Virtual audio devices aren't available on phones, but the microphone works as a quick alternative. Play Tidal on a nearby speaker, open vizz.fm, and select Microphone. It won't be as clean as routing audio directly, but in a quiet room it works better than you'd expect.

What can you do with it?

Once Tidal is connected, you have full control over how your music looks. vizz.fm includes dozens of WebGL visualizers — particle systems, waveforms, shaders, 3D meshes — all reacting to your audio in real time. Every visualizer has its own set of controls for colors, speed, intensity, and geometry.

You can also layer on effects like kaleidoscope, bloom, and CRT scanlines. Save your favorite combinations as presets and switch between them mid-song. If you want to go deeper, you can tie any slider to a specific frequency range — bass drives particle size, treble drives rotation, whatever combination feels right.