How to Find and Clear Tidal Recently Played [Mobile/Desktop]

Part 1. How to Find Tidal Recently Played

Tidal stores your recently played playlists and song history in two separate places, which can be confusing. When you play songs from your playlists, the playlists will be displayed under the "Recently Played" section. The songs you played will be listed in the "Play Queue" section. If you want a detailed collection of your listening history, including dates and times, you can sync your Tidal account with Last.fm for in-depth stats analysis.

Place 1. At Homepage

The Tidal Recently Played section is on the Tidal home page. However, its exact position on the home page may differ from everyone's preference since all sections on the homepage are placed based on the categories you use the most now. If you frequently play music from the Recently Played section, it may be displayed at the top of your Tidal homepage. You can see it once you open Tidal. If you hardly ever click the section, you may need to scroll down the screen to find it.

Place 2. At Tidal Play Queue

In fact, the Tidal Play queue contains three parts: Tidal listening history, the songs you are playing, and recommendations for the next playing. But when you click into the Play queue, the listening history is hidden, and you need to scroll up to find the playing history. Follow the steps below to figure out what you have played before.

💻On Mac/Windows App:

Step 1. Launch the Tidal app on your computers and play any songs.

Step 2. Navigate the playing bar at the bottom, and you can see an icon with three horizontal lines on the right. This is the Playing queue icon; click it.

Step 3. Scroll up in the pop-up window to view your playing history, which will appear as grayed-out songs.

📱On Android/iOS App:

Step 1. Launch your Tidal app on your phone and play any songs you like.

Step 2. Click the playing song and enter the Now Playing screen.

Step 3. Tap the Play queue icon at the bottom left corner.

Step 4. Swipe up to load your recently played songs.

Notice: Listening history will be automatically refreshed once you play songs from a new playlist. So, if you want to find the song you are interested in when auto-playing Tidal music, you'd better not play any songs and click the Playing queue icon once you launch the Tidal app.

Place 3. At Last.fm

Last.fm is a global online music streaming service that analyzes music stats features. You can connect your Tidal account with the Last.fm account, and then the Last.fm will Scrobble your listening history, including titles, artists, and even the exact time you played a song.

View also: How to Connect Tidal to Last FM on Mobile/Desktop

Part 2. How to Clear Recently Played on Tidal

Once you find where is your Tidal listening history, it's easy to clear the history.

If you want to remove some recently played playlist from the homepage, you can only right-click and select Delete playlist or Unfollow. For those unfollowed or playlists created by others, you can follow or add them to your playlists at first.

Besides, you can remove single songs from your listening history on the Tidal Play queue by clicking the ❌ icon or clicking the Clear Play Queue icon at the bottom right to clear the whole play queue.

💻Clear Recently Played on Mac/Windows App

Step 1. Launch your Tidal app on computers.

Step 2. Navigate the recently played playlist.

Step 3. Right-click the playlist you want to remove and select Delete playlist or Unfollow.

📱Clear Recently Played on Android/iOS App

Step 1. Launch the Tidal app on your phone, locate and enter the recently played playlist.

Step 2. Tap the three vertical dots on the top right.

Step 3. Tap Delete.

Part 3. How to Fix Tidal Recently Played Not Updating

As an online streaming platform, Tidal sometimes causes connection or syncing issues. These days, many users complain that Tidal Recently Played not updating after playing new albums or auto-playing recommended songs. I've also encountered such an issue before. Typically, I can tackle the problem of not updating with the five methods below.

Way 1. Restart Your Phone

It takes time to upload your playing history, so you can wait some minutes to see whether it is updated. If you have waited long, you can relaunch your phone to refresh the system and software. Sometimes, your system may be stuck when uploading and syncing the recently played songs to the Tidal server.

Way 2. Uninstall and Reinstall the Tidal App

You can also uninstall and reinstall the Tidal app on your devices to clear Tidal cache and refresh Internet connections between your device and the Tidal systems.

However, I've found that this method can only work for a while. And I have to keep deleting and reinstalling the Tidal app on my phone, which is very annoying.

Way 3. Use Tidal App on Your Computer

After several trials, I found that the Tidal Desktop app has a more stable connection with the Tidal server. The listening history is updated quickly and can be synced with my Tidal on my phone. But the biggest problem is that the computer is not convenient to play on the road. So, I usually use this method when I'm at home.

Way 4. Change A Browser

Except for Tidal on mobile devices and desktop devices, I also tried the Tidal web player. However, it also fails to update my playing history sometimes. Don't worry; you can switch to another browser to try it.

Way 5. Contact Tidal Support and Wait for Updating

If all solutions are not working, you'd better give the Tidal Support team feedback. They will ask for details about your problem in updating Tidal's recently played songs. You can only contact and wait for the next app upgrade to fix related bugs.

Part 4. How to Download Tidal Music Without Subscription

You can explore many liked songs on Tidal. Still, after your subscription expires, you can only play 30 seconds to 1 minute of Tidal songs. Additionally, you cannot download songs from Tidal Music for offline playing. With the AudFree Tidal Music Downloader, you can now download all your liked songs without a subscription.

AudFree Tidal Music Downloader program is designed for Tidal users to keep songs permanently by converting DRM-protected Tidal music into plain formats like MP3, M4A, M4B, WAV, and FLAC. After converting, the DRM protection is removed, and the output format is compatible with USB, MP3 players, and more devices without the Internet or Tidal app. Don't worry about the quality. This professional tool lets you keep lossless music with customized Sample Rate and Bit Rate.

In this part, we will give a step-by-step guide to converting Tidal music with the aid of the AudFree Tidal Music Converter.

Step 1. Import Tidal songs to the AudFree Tidal Music Converter. You can drag the cover of a Tidal song into the converter's interface or paste the URL of Tidal tracks at the input box on the top and add the + button on the right.

Step 2. Customize output preferences. Click the Menu icon at the top right, select Preferences > Convert, and you can set your output format and quality in the pop-up window.

Step 3. Select the output folder to store converted songs. Now move your Pointer to the bottom left of the interface, click the blue three dots icon, and select a folder.

Step 4. Start the conversion. Click the blue Convert button at the bottom right to convert your songs quickly.

Part 5. In Conclusion

I hope you have found your listening history on Tidal and cleared all songs you don't want to show in playing history. If you encounter the Tidal Recently Played not Syncing and updating problems, you can try to fix them with the solutions provided. If the issue persists, consider using the AudFree Tidal Music Converter to play Tidal Music offline for better management of your songs.