Spotify is the biggest name in the music streaming service. There are millions of tracks and episodes on Spotify. With Spotify, it's easy to find the right music or podcast for every moment on your phone, your computer, your tablet and more. Whether you're at home or working out, the right music or podcast is always at your fingertips.
What should you prepare before you can start downloading songs, albums, playlists, or podcasts from Spotify? You should prepare three things, that is, a Spotify Premium subscription to toggle the download button, a connection between internet and Spotify rather than cellular data, and a networked device like computer, mobile or tablet computer to store music.
Once the condition is all set up, let's get started. We'll show you precisely how to download music from Spotify to your networked device or take some temporary time off in this guide.
Get Music on Spotify for Listening Offline
For Premium subscribers, download your favorite songs, albums, playlists, and podcasts so you can listen to them without an internet connection. It's also worth keeping in mind that you're only allowed to download songs on three devices at a time and no more than 3,333 per device.
Desktop
Step 1. When finding a song or viewing a playlist you'd like to listen to, you could click the button marked "Save to Your Library", which is located below the option "More", to save them to your library for downloading. Then you can choose an album or playlist to download which you have saved in advance.
Step 2. Toggle the slider marked "Download" in the upper-right corner of any playlist. Once switching the icon on, the playlist will be started to download. A green arrow indicates the download was successful. It will take some time to download all songs of the whole playlist and just wait for a moment.
Step 3. Once all tracks have saved, the playlist will be accessible from within the pane marked "Playlists" on the left. If you prepare to listen to these downloaded tracks when without the internet connection, you should set your desktop to "Offline Mode" in advance. In Offline Mode, you can only play music you've downloaded.
Note: you are only allowed to download Spotify playlist on your desktop unlike on mobile currently.
Mobile & Tablet
To download a playlist or album
Step 1. Just like the desktop, you should save an album or playlist to your library on Spotify in advance. Go to the album or playlist you want to download.
Step 2. Toggle the slider marked "Download" in the upper-right corner of an album or playlist, directly above the playlist.
Step 3. Then tap Home > Settings > Playback and switch "Offline" on, so you can listen to Spotify music without an internet connection.
To download a podcast
Step 1. When viewing best podcasts on Spotify, tap the three horizontal dots in the upper-right corner of the podcast episode.
Step 2. Tap the "Download" button, and then the podcast you download will be automatically saved to Your Library. Wait for a moment till that the downloading is completed.
Step 3. After completing the downloading, you need to tap Your Library > Settings > Playback and set your Spotify as "Offline Mode". Now you can listen to the podcast episode within Spotify if you don't have an internet connection.
Note: You must go online at least once every 30 days and maintain a Premium subscription to keep your music and podcasts downloaded.
Store Spotify Music to Your Personal Computer Limitlessly
Even though you have become a Premium subscriber on Spotify, there also exist the limitation of downloading music from Spotify. When you find you are unable to download additional songs, it could be because you've hit the 3,333-songs-per-limit limit. However, the coming of ViWizard Spotify Music Converter could help you to break through the limitation of quantity span.
With the support of ViWizard Spotify Music Converter, you can save all songs, playlists, albums, and artists from Spotify as MP3 file or other plain formats like AAC, WAV, FLAC, M4A, and M4B losslessly on your computer and strip all DRM protection from Spotify. The converter can also function as an editor which enables you to configure the audio parameter.
Here is the detailed guidance on how to download music from Spotify limitlessly.
Step 1Drag a playlist or album to ViWizard Spotify Music Converter
Open ViWizard Spotify Music Converter and then Spotify will be automatically launched. Find an album or playlist or pick a readymade album or playlist to download. Upload the album or playlist to ViWizard Spotify Music Converter by dragging them to the main screen or pasting their embedded link on the search box.
Step 2Configure the audio format and music parameter on the tool
After adding the album or playlist to ViWizard Spotify Music Converter, you can tweak all sorts of different settings on the software. These setting like audio format, bit rate, sample rate, and channel can be changed depending on your need and device. For example, your SanDisk MP3 Player has the demand to the audio in the format of mp3, so you need to download Spotify songs to MP3 compatible with SanDisk MP3 Player.
Step 3Click the convert button to start downloading music from Spotify
After you have configured all parameters, you can tap on the button marked "Convert" to download and convert the album or playlist to the local folder on your personal computer. It will take some time to save all songs depending on the quantity of the album and playlist. After downloading, you can locate the local folder to transfer all Spotify music to other devices for listening.
Note: no matter you are a Premium subscriber or Free subscriber, you can download Spotify music free, listen to Spotify offline, and even store Spotify music limitlessly with the support of ViWizard Spotify Music Converter.
Adam Gorden is an experienced writer of ViWizard who is obsessed about tech, movie and software.
