Tidal, searching for and displaying content within Plex Clients - How?

Confused user here.

Having added tidal (currently trial) to my plex pass I’m finding the interface somewhat limited - actually useless to be fair! Maybe it’s me and my expectations but the same thing happens on the Web client, an android client and on the web tv’s (2 versions of Samsung OS).

Essentially none of them offer a way to search Tidal for content. All I get when I go into the Tidal section is:
Recommendations, My Tidal and My tidal lists.
There is no search.
Only recommendations has content and there’s nothing on the other two screens to allow me to add content or search.

Even if there is another place within the client i/f that I can search Tidal (and I haven’t found it yet) I would have expected the facility to be there at minimum.

There’s not too much about it in the forums and the 5 help documents I’ve found don’t seem to cover this.

Any pointers gratefully accepted.


Also a quick comment on Tidal access. I found that it only works on my subscription ID once I got into the trial - but hey that’s the point of a trial.
I had hoped that all the family would be able to use the subscription like most other media streaming sources we have but it appears not as it’s tied to the plex pass subscription ID user.
In fact for me it’s worse because this isn’t a normal user on my system, I only use this one for admin, we all use other IDs for viewing so in normal use even I wouldn’t be able to use it.

From searching forums and comments I gather this is designed behaviour and I get that it’s probably related to DRM and per user subs on Tidal, but it’s fairly useless for my purposes and seems to fly in the face of what I understand Plex to be about.

Tidal integration in Plex is best at augmenting your existing music library.
The following screenshot is taken from the artist page of “Adele” in my own music library. As you can see, I get fitting recommendations of TIDAL content:

This integration is even more powerful in Plexamp, where you can have an automatically generated play queue of related music, which includes TIDAL content.

It doesn’t make much sense to use Plex for music, if the only music you have is what you get from tidal. In this case you are better off with TIDAL’s own app.

Each Plex app has a search feature, which gives you search hits from all your libraries and all “online media sources”, which includes Plex’s on-demand video offerings and TIDAL as well. (Unless you have disabled these in your account settings. TIDAL is confusingly called “music” there, so be aware.) https://app.plex.tv/desktop/#!/settings/online-media-sources

After linking the TIDAL account to Plex, you might want to restart your own Plex server and refresh the metadata of your music library.
If your own music library is still stuck on the legacy metadata agents, the integration with tidal is not as useful.

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