
With Spotify, you can access up to 50 million songs and over 700,000 podcasts. But when you share your favorite track, album, artist, or playlist with your friends, what will you do? You might be familiar with the method Spotify offers to share songs on those social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter with album artwork. Or copy the URL of the song and send the Spotify link to your friends for sharing.
However, Spotify has more options for users to share Spotify songs and favorites. That is to use a Spotify URI, which will direct you straight to the Spotify app for playing. In this post, I will introduce you what is a Spotify URI, how to get it, as well as, how to use it. And at the end, I will also show you how to download and convert Spotify URI to MP3.
What is A Spotify URI?
URI is short for Uniform Resource Identifier is a string of characters that identify a certain type of resource. Different from URL (Uniform Resource Locator) which is more commonly used to access a webpage, URI will direct you to the specific app or client on your device rather than an internet domain. And by clicking on a Spotify URI, you'll be directly taken to the Spotify client on your computer without going through the webpage in advance.
How to Get Spotify URI?
It's easy to find and get Spotify URI with the Spotify client. To find Spotify URI, just perform the following steps on your computer.
1. Open the Spotify app on your desktop, and turn to the specific song, album, artist, playlist, or podcast you want to share.
2. Move your mouse over to the title and then right-click on it.
3. Click Share and select Copy Spotify Link. Now you get the Spotify URI copied to your clipboard.
Can I get Spotify URI on the mobile app?
Unfortunately, there's no such an option on the Spotify mobile app. But you can go to spotifycodes.com and enter the Spotify URI. The website will generate a Spotify URI Code. Then you can use the Spotify mobile app to scan the code, and you will be taken to the page of the song.
How to Use Spotify URI?
A Spotify URI looks like spotify:track:1Qq7Tq8zZHuelGv9LQE2Yy. To use it, just paste the link to your internet browser's address box or into the Spotify search box.
On the Spotify app, you will be directed to the source by entering Spotify URI. However, when you enter the Spotify URI on the internet browser, a prompt will show up to ask you to open the Spotify app. Then simply click Open Spotify, then you'll be taken to the source.
Convert Spotify URI to MP3 with ViWizard
Have you ever imagined that Spotify URI can be used to download and convert music files? Originally, Spotify songs are in the format of Ogg Vorbis. This type of file is protected by DRM from Spotify and cannot be played without the support of the Spotify app or client. But there's a way to download and convert OGG Vorbis files to MP3 files using Spotify URI.
With ViWizard Spotify Music Converter, you can directly use Spotify URI to convert Spotify song to MP3. Just simply copy and paste the Spotify URI link into the search box of the ViWizard interface. Then all the tracks will be uploaded and ready to be converted by ViWizard software. Each song will take only seconds to finish converting.
ViWizard Spotify Music Converter is designed to convert and remove DRM from Spotify song files into 6 different formats like MP3, AAC, M4A, M4B, WAV and FLAC. All the original quality of the song will be kept after converting at 5X faster speed.
ViWizard Spotify Music Converter Key Features
- Convert and download Spotify songs to MP3 and other formats
- Download any Spotify contents at 5× faster speed
- Play Spotify songs offline anywhere without Premium
- Save Spotify with the original audio quality and ID3 tags
1Paste Spotify URI into the search bar
Open ViWizard software and the Spotify will be launched simultaneously. Then copy and paste the Spotify URI link into the ViWizard search bar. Press Enter on your keyboard or click the Plus button, then the songs will be loaded.
2 Set up the output parameters for Spotify
After adding music tracks from Spotify to ViWizard, you can choose the output audio format. There're six options including MP3, M4A, M4B, AAC, WAV and FLAC. And then you can adjust the audio quality by selecting the output channel, bit rate, and sample rate.
3 Start converting Spotify URI to MP3
Once all the setting is finished, click the "Convert" button to start loading Spotify music tracks. After the conversion, all the files will be saved to your specified folder. You could browse all the converted songs by clicking "Converted" and navigate to the output folder.
More Tips: Download Spotify URL to MP3
4HUB Spotify Downloader is an online Spotify to MP3 converter. You simply need to copy the URL and paste it into the bar of the website and then click on the Download option. Your download will start automatically. If you don't mind the audio quality of the output files, you could have a try.
Step 1. Go to launch the Spotify Web Player and log into your Spotify account.
Step 2. Find and browse any track, album, or playlist you want to download.
Step 3. Copy the URL of the playlist or song and paste it into the Spotify Downloader Box.
Step 4. Click the Download button displayed below the box and start downloading Spotify music to MP3.
Step 5. Find the Downloads folder of your web browser and check all the downloaded Spotify files.
Conclusion
Spotify URI not only provides link that directs you to the song on Spotify app, but also create a method to convert Spotify songs to MP3 with the cooperation of ViWizard Spotify Music Converter. All the converted songs can be play anywhere without the Spotify app, so that you can share them to your friend even they don't have Spotify installed.

Adam Gorden is an experienced writer of ViWizard who is obsessed about tech, movie and software.