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. Check for any omissions, and connect your mobile device to your PC, now you can transfer your songs and listen to Spotify offline without premium. In addition, it also allows you to download Spotify playlist to MP3 with simple steps. To download from Spotify free, you also can find Spotify downloader online. If you still want to purchase. There are abundant ways you can try on if you wish to download Spotify music to MP3 or other plain format on your computer. But most of third-party software are simply recording tool with limited output audio quality and 1:1 recording speed.
'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.
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.
Can You Download From Spotify
'Hi all, I've been searching the forums, but can’t find my answer. Am I able to download playlists from Spotify? How can I export Spotify playlists to my laptop? I have premium. Please help!'
How Do You Download Music From Spotify
A lot of people are confused about the offline-mode that Spotify offers to the Premium subscribers. It’s said that Spotify premium users are allowed to listen to Spotify songs offline. Does it mean that you are able to download playlists from Spotify to a local computer? If so, where can you find the Spotify downloads?
The truth may disappoint you. You are not able to download Spotify playlists as local files. As a result, there’s no way for you to find the Spotify downloads. Spotify is a streaming music service, which provides you with a vast music library to entertain yourself. It offers free and premium streaming plans. Compared to Spotify Free users, you are able to stream ad-free Spotify songs with highest audio quality for offline listening with premium subscription.
Nevertheless, the songs you listened to offline are not playable on your local computer. They are encrypted files stored in the Spotify cache location. C:UsersUser NameAppDateLocalSpotifyStorage is the default location. To export Spotify playlists to a local computer, you’ll have to turn to a third-party Spotify tool - Sidify Music Converter, for example, which is specially designed for transferring Spotify playlists to your PC/Mac. Here we are going to show you how to save Spotify playlists as local files with Sidify step by step.
Key Features of Sidify Music Converter
Sidify Music Converter
- Download playlists from Spotify to computer
- Keep ID3 tags and metadata after conversion
- 1-click to burn Spotify music to CD
- Upload Spotify songs to OneDrive/Google Drive
- Highly compatible with the latest operation system and Spotify
Tutorial: How to Export Spotify Playlists to Local Computer
Before we get started, please make sure you've had both Spotify and Sidify Music Converter installed successfully on your computer. Please do not open Spotify manually. Once you launch Sidify, Spotify would be opened automatically.
Equipment Preparation:
- A Computer running Windows OS or macOS
- The latest version of Spotify
- Sidify Music Converter
Step 1Add the URL of a Spotify Playlist to Sidify
Launch Sidify Music Converter. Drag and drop your target playlist from Spotify to Sidify and it will parse the URL automatically. Or you can click 'Add' button on the interface and copy & paste the URL from Spotify to the program. Then click 'OK' to upload all the songs in the playlist to Sidify.
Step 2Choose Output Settings and Customize Output Path
Click 'Settings' on the upper right, where you can choose output format, output quality, output folder, how you'd like the output files to be organized and so on. If you'd like to save the playlist from Spotify to computer as MP3 files, simply choose 'MP3' as the output format here.
Step 3Export the Spotify Playlist on Local Computer
Click 'Convert' button on the bottom right to start exporting your target Spotify playlist as local files. When the conversion is done, click 'Converted' tab on the left column and you can check the songs in the playlist that have been successfully downloaded.
Sidify Music Converter is a powerful music tool. It can not only download songs from Spotify to your local PC/Mac, but also convert your common audio files to MP3/M4A/FLAC/WAV/OGG, burn Spotify songs to CD, Upload & Share Spotify songs to OneDrive/Google Drive and edit tags. All these functions can be found by clicking 'Tools' on the left column of the interface.
Now that you’ve got the playlist saved from Spotify to your local computer, you can transfer them to a USB, get them in your mobile phone, set them as ringtone and etc. Just take the time and enjoy yourself!
Video Tutorial: How to Download and Convert Spotify Playlist to MP3
Note : The trial version of Sidify Music Converter enables us to convert 3-minute audio for sample testing, and you can unlock the time limitation by purchasing the full version.