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Tidal.com streams flac files, but it does not provide with file download, which is what I want. As you would expect from a big company such as Tidal, upon my inquiry, its support service in an utmost polite and friendly manner advised me to go funk myself.
Preferring not to, I learned that when flac track is streamed, several .bin files are being cached in my browser. I saved one of such .bin files - its size approximately corresponds to that of flac file, but I was not able to open it with neither 7Zip nor UltraISO nor by renaming it into zip or flac and opening it with VLC or PotPlayer.
So I guess my question is - can I decode such file or obtain flac from it by some other means? Thanks.
Both ".bin" and "octet-stream" can mean literally anything – there is no specific format, no specific structure, nothing that could be "decoded". (Basically, "application/octet-stream" is the fallback MIME type used when nothing else is known about the type.) So maybe someone can answer the specific "rip Tidal music" question, but it's completely impossible to answer the generic "decode .bin files" question. – user1686 – 2015-11-27T06:18:51.967
@grawity fair enough, but if a browser can decode it, for sure there must be a way? – user498283 – 2015-11-27T06:32:20.453