{"id":129532,"date":"2021-04-24T07:07:51","date_gmt":"2021-04-24T06:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=129532"},"modified":"2021-04-24T07:07:51","modified_gmt":"2021-04-24T06:07:51","slug":"tidal-stopped-working-on-astell-kern-players-due-to-change-of-authentication-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/technology\/tidal-stopped-working-on-astell-kern-players-due-to-change-of-authentication-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Tidal stopped working on Astell &#038; Kern players due to change of authentication system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent change to Tidal&#8217;s input authentication has made\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hifi.blog\/astell-kern-problems-with-tidal-app-on-many-dap-models\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">it nearly impossible<\/a>\u00a0to access this streaming service on many Astell &amp; Kern portable Hi-Res audio players\u00a0.<\/p>\n<p>These players run Android, although the owners may not be aware of this.\u00a0The system is tailored for music playback &#8211; a special user interface has been created for this.\u00a0At the same time, it is impossible to install third-party applications on this Android &#8211; it can only be software controlled by the Astell &amp; Kern Open APP service.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Tidal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-129534\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Tidal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Tidal.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Tidal-711x474.jpg 711w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Tidal-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Tidal-770x513.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Tidal-337x224.jpg 337w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Tidal-737x491.jpg 737w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Tidal-260x173.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The restrictions are justified: a high-definition portable player should only have programs compatible with it.\u00a0But alas, iRiver Ltd., which owns the Astell &amp; Kern sub-brand, announced that its built-in Tidal app no \u200b\u200blonger supports the new authentication method.<\/p>\n<p>To solve this problem, the company is going to release updates for the\u00a0SP2000\u00a0,\u00a0SP1000\u00a0, SP1000M, SE200,\u00a0SE100\u00a0, SR25 and KANN ALPHA models.\u00a0This will happen in May.\u00a0These models will be\u00a0followed by the\u00a0KANN CUBE\u00a0, SA700,\u00a0SR15\u00a0, CT15 and CT10 players.<\/p>\n<p>Owners of older Astell &amp; Kern models are much less fortunate, as Tidal will stop supporting older versions of Android.\u00a0These restrictions will apply to Astell &amp; Kern AK380, AK320, AK300,\u00a0AK70 MKII\u00a0, AK70, AK240, AK120II and AK100II players.\u00a0From now on, Tidal will not work on them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent change to Tidal&#8217;s input authentication has made\u00a0it nearly impossible\u00a0to access this streaming service on many Astell &amp; Kern portable Hi-Res audio players\u00a0. These players run Android, although the owners may not be aware of this.\u00a0The system is tailored for music playback &#8211; a special user interface has been created for this.\u00a0At the same [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/technology\/tidal-stopped-working-on-astell-kern-players-due-to-change-of-authentication-system\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":129533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[805],"tags":[779],"class_list":{"0":"post-129532","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-news"},"acf":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}