'Can I download music to my MP3 player? - I just began using Spotify. Can I download music to my MP3 player directly or do I have to get it to Window Media Player? If I need to get music to WMP, how do I do that? Thanks.' Asked by dugchevy on Spotify Communities.
“Premium and downloading as mp3 - So I have a few questions about a premium account: 1. Can i download songs i like as mp3 and play them anywhere? (Without the actual spotify software, for example in my car). 2. Is there DRM or anything like that? Will they work on my car radio (usb stick)? 3. What's the limit on this downloading?” by Robin from Spotify Communities.
Many Spotify users, especially those newbies, have the same requirements as the above ones. They want to download Spotify songs onto MP3 player so that they can listen to Spotify songs on portable MP3 player on the go. However, this isn’t feasible even you upgrade to the Premium version, which allows you to set Spotify songs for offline listening on different devices, but MP3 players are not included. Is there any way to transfer music from Spotify to MP3 player? Of course yes. Today, we would like to show you effective solutions on how to download music from Spotify to MP3 player. Just check the content below and learn how to put music on MP3 player from Spotify.
Part 1: Why Can't We Transfer Spotify Songs to MP3 Player Directly
Some people might wonder if the Premium plan of Spotify allows them to transfer music from Spotify to MP3 player as the Premium plan enables 'Offline Mode' for Premium users to set Spotify songs for offline listening on portable devices. Actually, this is a misunderstanding. Let's get further into Spotify here.
It can convert Spotify songs to DRM-free formats including MP3, AAC, FLAC and WAV with 100% audio quality and ID tags kept. With NoteBurner Spotify Music Converter, you can simply play Spotify songs anywhere on any devices in any time. Now let’s start our journey to play Spotify songs on Windows Media Player. Spotify is not designed to download Music in MP3 or WMP Format. What you can do is activate the 'Offline Mode'. This will download the songs in a proprietary format which you can play back with your Smartphone, PC/Mac or iPod Touch using the Spotify Application. You can however not extract songs into other formats. Download music from Spotify to use for Windows Media Player is easy to operate. Now I will take the converter for the Windows PC version as an example to download music to Windows Media Player. And then show you how to download and convert Spotify music for Windows Media Player step by step. Step 1 Load Spotify playlists for adding to WMP.
According to Spotify website, Spotify is a digital music, podcast, and video streaming service that gives you access to millions of songs and other content from artists all over the world. You could listen to over 35 million songs on Spotify. It has both Free and Premium versions, for free and $9.99 per month respectively. The Premium plan enables you to listen to Spotify songs without ads, and set Spotify songs as “Offline Mode” to let you listen to Spotify songs offline on up to 3 devices of platforms like iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, etc.
Does the “Offline Mode” mean downloading Spotify songs? Actually it doesn’t. When you set Spotify songs as “Offline Mode”, it will download the songs in a proprietary format which you can play back with your Smartphone, PC/Mac or iPod Touch using the Spotify Application. You can however not extract songs into other formats like MP3 for other players.
Spotify relies on a 'closed system' in order to ensure artists are fairly paid for track plays. This means that a Spotify Premium subscription only gives you access to Spotify's massive catalogue, and the ability to download and play tracks offline inside the Spotify applications, not the ability to download tracks as mp3's.
This does mean, that you can only listen to Spotify content on devices which have a supported Spotify application, such as iOS, android, BlackBerry, Windows Phone 7/8 and Symbian (also on the desktop). If you wish to download tracks as mp3 files to transfer to windows media player or to a generic mp3 player, you need to turn to some 3rd-party Spotify song downloader tools, which are described below in detail.
Part 2: How to Download Spotify Songs to MP3 Player with Leawo Prof. DRM
As mentioned above, to put Spotify music on MP3 player, you need to download Spotify songs to MP3 audio files and then transfer the downloaded Spotify songs to MP3 player for on-the-move offline listening. And you need to make use of 3rd-party Spotify song downloader tools. Leawo Prof. DRM is the best Spotify song downloader you could get in the market.
As a professional DRM removal and Spotify music downloader software program, Leawo Prof. DRM could help you remove the DRM protection upon Spotify songs, albums and playlist, and then download and convert Spotify music to MP3, AAC, M4A, etc. for your MP3 players in batch. This Spotify music converter also enables you to adjust audio channel, bit rate, and sample rate for a better music quality output and offline Spotify music listening on your mobile devices.
Note: You have to download and install Spotify desktop software on your computer before you use this Spotify song downloader if you want to download and convert Spotify songs to MP3 players on your computer. If you want to download Spotify songs for MP3 player on Mac, download and install the Leawo Prof. DRM for Mac.
Step 1: Add Spotify music to Prof. DRM
Launch Leawo Prof. DRM, and it will automatically launch Spotify desktop software. Directly drag and drop songs from Spotify to this Spotify song downloader for downloading.
If you want to download Spotify songs for MP3 player from web Spotify player, copy the playlist URL of your Spotify playlist, open the “Converted” tab on Leawo Prof. DRM to click the Spotify icon, then paste the URL into the browser bar to download Spotify playlist.
Step 2: Set output format and audio quality
Click the pencil icon on each loaded Spotify song, and then set output format and audio parameters. Choose MP3 as output format, and change the Channel, Sample rate, and Bit rate. Check the “Apply to All” or “Apply to current” button to save and exit. “Apply to All” is recommended for time saving.
Step 3: Set output directory
Then, move mouse to the bottom of this Spotify music downloader. Set output directory in the “Output” box at the bottom.
Step 4: Start to download and convert Spotify songs
Finally, click the blue “Convert” button to start to download Spotify songs and convert Spotify songs for MP3 players.
You could view the whole Spotify song downloading and converting process on the converting panel. Moreover, you could view the downloaded Spotify songs on the “Converted” tab.
With Leawo Prof. DRM, you could download and convert Spotify music to AAC, MP3, FLAC, M4A, etc. in batch. What’s more, you could use Leawo Prof. DRM could as iTunes M4V video converter to remove DRM protection from iTunes videos and convert iTunes DRM M4V to DRM-free MP4 video, Audible audiobook converter to convert iTunes audiobooks, iTunes DRM M4P music converter to convert iTunes DRM M4P music to DRM-free MP3, and eBook converter for Kindle, Kobo and ADE to convert DRM eBooks from Kindle, Kobo and Adobe Digital Edition.
Part 3: How to Download Spotify Songs for MP3 Player with Leawo Music Recorder
Besides Leawo Prof. DRM, you could also make use of Leawo Music Recorder to record and download Spotify songs for MP3 players. As an easy-to-use audio recorder, Leawo Music Recorder could record any computer and built-in audio and then save into MP3 or WAV files. When acting as Spotify song downloader, Music Recorder helps you record and download Spotify songs to MP3 or WAV files, with music tags like artist, album, cover, etc. automatically added to downloaded Spotify songs.
Download and install Leawo Music Recorder on your. Check the below steps to learn how to download Spotify songs for MP3 players with music tags added.
Step 1: Set audio source
Click on the tiny microphone icon. Under the 'Audio Source' tab, choose 'Record Computer Audio' option.
Step 2: Set output directory
Go to the 'General' tab to set output directory in the “Output” box. Make sure the target drive has enough space. You could also set UI language here.
Step 3: Set output format
Thirdly, open the 'Format' tab to choose output format from MP3 audio and WAV audio according to your MP3 player. Adjust the audio bit rate and sample rate of output recording file if need be.
Step 4: Start to record and download Spotify songs
Then, on the main interface, click the red 'Start' button before you play Spotify songs on your computer. This music recorder software would start to record and download Spotify songs immediately, with music tags automatically downloaded. You could view the recording process.
Note: It’s important to press the red recording button before you play back Spotify songs. This guarantees completeness of downloaded Spotify songs.
Leawo Music Recorder would automatically help you add and complete the music tags like artist, album, genre, cover, etc. However, the internal music tag editor enables you to edit these music tags manually. You could right click target recordings and then choosing “Edit Music Tags” option to do these.
When the recording and downloading process finishes, you could then move the downloaded Spotify songs to your MP3 players for unlimited offline listening.
Leawo Music Recorder could perform as an excellent online audio recorder to help you record and download online songs with ease, as well as built-in audio recorder to record any sound out of your computer.
Part 4: How to Transfer Downloaded Spotify Songs to MP3 Player
With desired Spotify songs downloaded to local drive in DRM-free audio files, you could now freely transfer downloaded Spotify songs to MP3 players. It is quite easy to do these:
1. Connect your MP3 player to computer.
2. Go to the folder that saves downloaded Spotify songs.
3. Copy and paste the downloaded Spotify songs to MP3 player.
4. Disconnect your MP3 player from computer.
Now, you could listen to the downloaded Spotify songs on your MP3 player on the go.
Both Leawo Prof. DRM and Music Recorder help you remove DRM protection from Spotify songs and download Spotify songs to MP3 player files in local drive. We can see that obviously Leawo Prof. DRM performs better job in downloading Spotify songs for MP3 player, which could download Spotify songs, albums and even playlists in batch in short period. Leawo Music Recorder would cost your much more time since it has to record the original Spotify songs for downloading, but it adds music tags for downloaded Spotify songs. Meanwhile, no matter you are Free or Premium user of Spotify, Leawo Prof. DRM downloads Spotify songs without ads, but you have to skip those ads when you are recording Spotify songs with Leawo Music Recorder if you are a Free plan user.
Leawo Video Converter is the best video and audio converter that you could use to convert downloaded Spotify file to MP3 or other audio formats like WAV, AAC, AIFF, etc. Being a professional video converter tool, Leawo Video Converter enables you to convert video and audio files between hundreds of video and audio formats, including MKV to MP4, MKV to AVI, MP4 to MOV, MP4 to MP3, MKV to MP3, etc. You could even make use of the internal audio editor to remove noise and trim audio length.
7 Free Ways to Download Spotify to MP3 in 2020
With more than 40 million songs, Spotify offers a massive music library that you can listen to online without taking your storage space. If you pay the premium subscription fee, you can also listen to music offline.
The only problem is that you can’t transfer them anywhere or play them with other music players other than Spotify because the music files you downloaded with Spotify are DRM(Digital Rights Management) protected. In this article, I will show you 7 ways to download songs from Spotify as MP3 without recording even if you don’t have Spotify Premium. No matter what devices you use, you can find at least 2 methods that work for you.
Disclaimer
All these methods are for personal or educational use only.
You should not use any of these tools to pirate or distribute music.
Some of the methods may be illegal to use this in your country, so be informed.
Method 1: Download Spotify song or playlist with Siri Shortcuts
If you are using an iOS device, you probably have heard of the automation application Shortcuts, which is the updated version of Workflow. I have three shortcuts to help you download music from Spotify.
If you are not familiar with Shortcuts, you can free download it from AppStore and get a few pre-made shortcuts in the Shortcuts Gallery to see how it work. To get the shortcuts that I am about to show you, you just open the link in Safari to download it.
This Spotify playlist downloader can only download an entire Spotify playlist. You will have an option to select some of the tracks in the playlist to download if you don’t want to download them all.
Note: This only works for playlist. It won’t work if you input a Spotify track link. It is recommended to run it from Spotify share sheet.
You can simply copy the Spotify playlist link from Spotify app and run this shortcut. You can also tap the Share button to run this shortcut from the share sheet. Besides the playlist link, you can also input playlist ID Or playlist URI to download Spotify playlist to MP3.
When downloaded, you can open the Files app, and then select iCloud > Shortcuts > Music to check the downloaded MP3 file. If you are not familiar with iOS Shortcuts, be sure to watch this video below to see how it works.
For advanced users, you can also use Shortcuts to Move Spotify Playlist to Apple Music and vise versa. Though the authentication process is a little complicated when you want to transfer playlists to Spotify by using Spotify API.
Method 2: Download Spotify to MP3 Using Telegram Bot
If you use Telegram, you can simply use a Telegram bot to download free music whether you are on Android or iOS. It does not require any setup or your Spotify account login info. All you need is this @SpotifyMusicDownloaderBot. After you get this bot, type “/start” (without quotes) and then you can paste any Spotify track link to start downloading music for free. If you are using iOS, you may want to tap the Share button and save to Files after the music is downloaded.
If you do like using Telegram bots to download music, you probably also want to check this post to get more Telegram Bots for music.
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Method 3: Download Spotify Playlist to FLAC or MP3
There is another open-source software called Deezloader, which is developed to download music from Deezer, can also be used to download a playlist from Spotify. The software actually converts the Spotify playlist to Deezer playlist and then download music from Deezer. You can set it to download Spotify Playlist as MP3 or FLAC. The lastest version Deezloader Remix 4.2.2 also allows you to download any single Spotify track and it much easier to set up.
Step 1. Download and install Deezer Remix. Log in with your Deezer account (free account also works).
Step 2. Go to this link: https://developer.spotify.com/dashboard/applications and log in with your Spotify account (free account works).
Step 3. Click on Create a Client ID and then compile the form as you like.
Step 4. Save the settings and then you will see the Client ID and Client Secret. Copy the Client ID and Client Secret to Deezloader Remix.
If you are using an older version of Deezloader Remix, the setup is a little bit complicated than this. You can refer to this video to see the configure process.
As you know, not all tracks on Spotify are also available on Deezer, so you will see some tracks are failed to download because Deezloader cannot find the matched songs. If you want a tool to download all tracks from Spotify playlist, keep reading to see the next tool.
Update: Since Deezloader is discontinued, you can only use this method to download 128kbps MP3. If you prefer high quality, jump to Method 5.
Method 4: Download Spotify to MP3 with AllToMP3
AllToMP3 is free open source software that allows you to download music from Spotify, YouTube, SoundCloud, and Deezer. It is available in Windows, macOS, and Linux. If you check the source code, it is easy to find out that it actually matches the Spotify music track with YouTube video and convert YouTube video to MP3, so the music quality is not as good the other methods. You can free download from its website or Github.
After installation, you can paste the Spotify song link or playlist link and press Enter to start downloading. The music, by default, will be saved in the Music folder. The downloaded music files include all the tags and cover art, but the quality is nowhere close to the next free tool.
Method 5: Download Spotify Music Using Allavsoft
Allavsoft is your ultimate media downloader software for Windows and Mac. It allows you to directly download Spotify playlist, album music to MP3, FLAC, WAV, M4A, WMA, etc with ID3 tags.
The latest version allows you to download Spotify music as FLAC (1441 kbps). Unlike Deezloader, you download all the songs that Deezloader cannot download, literally, unmatched songs with Allavsoft. For me, Allavsoft is the best Spotify Music Downloader.
Once you get it installed, you can copy the Spotify music link whether it is a song, album, or playlist and then launch Allavsoft. The program will automatically paste the URL and you just need to click Download to start downloading.
By default, it saves Spotify music to MP3 as 320 kbps with artwork and other metadata, so you don’t need to check the option “Automatically Convert to”. If you choose the Best Available quality, you may find some songs are downloaded as FLAC 1411 kbps, which is really cool. If you want to convert Spotify Music to FLAC, WAV, AIFF, AAC, WMA, DTS, etc, you can click the “Automatically Convert to” button to select the specific format from the drop-down menu.
Besides Spotify, Allavsoft allows you to download music from Deezer, SoundCloud, MixCloud, and download videos from Udemy, Lyda, YouTube, Facebook, etc. That is to say, Allavsoft is the only downloader software that you ever need.
Method 6: Convert Spotify music to MP3 with TuneMobie
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There are many programs that claim to be able to convert Spotify, but deep down they are recording the audio, TuneMobie is one of them. I tried both free and paid versions. Let me tell you how it really works.
When you open this program TuneMobie, it asks you to launch the Spotify app or download it if you haven’t. Then you can see in the preference where you can select to save as mp3, m4a, WAV, and FLAC. These are all the supported audio formats and other settings that you customize.
When you try to convert a song, the Spotify app actually plays the song, but you hear no sound. Compared to other audio-recording kinds of competitors, Tunemobie Spotify Converter is 5 times faster. Usually, it takes less than 1 minute to convert a song.
You can also copy a playlist link to download Spotify playlist as MP3 or other formats. The trial version allows you to download (record) unlimited tracks for the first 3 munites in 30 days, which is much better than its competitors.
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Method 7: Download Spotify with a Chrome extension
If you use Chrome web browser, you can install this free extension and then you can see a download button appears when you go to Spotify web player. You now can click on the download button to download almost all the songs from Spotify web player.
Why do I say almost? Because this extension certainly is not downloading music from Spotify directly. You just download music from its own server, so you will see some Spotify tracks are not available in their server for downloading. Some tracks downloaded using this extension may not be the same version as the Spotify version.
Bonus: Chimera — Multiple Source Music Downloader for Advanced Users Only
Chimera is a command-line based multiple source music downloader that allows you to download music from Spotify, Deezer, Tidal, Soundcloud, Napster, Qobuz, Google Play Music, etc.
It is open-source and completely free to use for educational and private use only. It is very powerful, but the setup process is more complicated than the other methods. You can choose Spotify source from Deezer, Tidal, or Qobuz.
As you know, Tidal and Qobuz provide Hi-res quality music. If you have paid subscription, you can use this tool to download Spotify music in very high quality in FLAC format.
You will need to grant your Spotify account through Spotify client ID and client secret. Based on your choice, you need to also set up Deezer, Tidal, or Qobuz account. For detailed steps, check this guide to see how to set it up.
Conclusion
That’s all the seven different methods for downloading Spotify music to MP3. If you care about music quality, then Allavsoft is the best choice. Personally, I like the Allavsoft method the most because it is convenient, high quality, and with cover art. More importantly, you don’t need any other video/music downloader software anymore once you have Allavsoft installed since it supports more than 1000 websites.
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If you really love the iOS environment, then Shortcuts is a great way to download music on iPhone. Now, it is your turn. Which method are you going to try first? If you have other better method to download music from Spotify, please share it in the comments.