TIDAL and exclusive use of audio device

[B&WQuad]

I am struggling with the exclusivity option for the audio device in the Tidal app. I like it when a music app can claim exclusivity of the audio device on my MAC. I use Tidal app on MAC with MacOS High Sierra and OPPO USB DAC. In the case of JRiver, the JRiver app claims exclusivity  when playing something and if one stops the music, the exclusivity is given up and other apps can use the audio device / DAC (Youtube, Chrome, Spotify, etc.). In the case of the TIDAL App on MAC, the app gives up the exclusivity automatically when another app/browser uses the audio device when launching the app and the settings in Tidal is set back to not exclusive. I have to check this setting all the time, as this happens often. Moreover, if Tidal has exclusivity it only gives the exclusivity up with closing the app and not when stopping playing the music. That is annoying. Any help to have a "JRiver" like experience with Tidal in the field of exclusivity?

[Marcin_gps]

Check this article which explains how to enable exclusive mode in Tidal app (among other things): http://www.avhub.com.au/news/sound-image/how-to-play-tidals-high-res-masters-on-your-mac-446915

[left channel]

The Tidal app for Windows does that all the time too. It lets go of Exclusive Mode and my DAC, reverting to default system sound, every time I launch it before remembering to close Qobuz or JRiver or MusicBee or etc. It probably does that to me in other situations too, as in your examples.

The only solution I can think of is to run everything through one unified app, like Audirvana Plus. You get what you pay for, and free apps = more effort required. Since you already have JRiver, it's too bad they confirmed in January "No, we are not working on Tidal integration".

[left channel]

Come to think of it, the Qobuz app does that too. Again, you get what you pay for. Serious apps alert you when they find another app has control of the audio device.

[DarwinOSX]

On 10/15/2017 at 10:57 AM, left channel said:

The Tidal app for Windows does that all the time too. It lets go of Exclusive Mode and my DAC, reverting to default system sound, every time I launch it before remembering to close Qobuz or JRiver or MusicBee or etc. It probably does that to me in other situations too, as in your examples.

The only solution I can think of is to run everything through one unified app, like Audirvana Plus. You get what you pay for, and free apps = more effort required. Since you already have JRiver, it's too bad they confirmed in January "No, we are not working on Tidal integration".

That seems very short sighted of JRiver.