How to Keep Spotify Music Library Offline Forever without Premium

Spotify is one of the best music streaming services on the market, which allows you to stream music online or offline depending on the subscription plan you have. If you have Premium subscription, you have the downloading feature to download any music tracks you want on your device. However, you may know these downloads are stored on your device as cached files that're only available when you're offline. And once you lose your subscription, you access to them will disappear until you regain it.

If you wish to keep your Spotify music library forever, you'll need to find an alternative way on your desktop, mobile experiences or both. In this post, we'd like to introduce the best way to keep Spotify music forever even without Premium subscription required on your computer, mobile devices or other storage devices and even cloud storage services.

Part 1. FAQs about keeping Spotify Music Forever

#1. Can I download Spotify music and keep it forever?

Officially you cannot download Spotify music and keep it forever because the music available on Spotify is protected by digital rigts management (DRM), which restricts the usage of the downloaded files.

#2. Do I need to pay a monthly subscription fee to keep Spotify Music forever?

Officially you need to continue paying the monthly subscription fee to keep access to your Spotify music downloads, unless you download Spotify music directly to your storage devices as unprotected audio files using third-party tool such as ViWizard Spotify Music Converter. Even without Premium subscription, ViWizard Spotify Music Converter can help download any music tracks for you.

#3. Is there any way to keep Spotify music forever?

Yes, there are a few ways to keep Spotify music forever, One way is to use a third-party tool that can remove the DRM protection from the downloaded Spotify music files, such as ViWizard Spotify Music Converter. Another way is to purchase the music from other sources such as iTunes or Amazon Music - Spotify doesn't have a digital music store. However, the latter way is not good for saving money.

#4. Will my Spotify playlist disappear if I cancel my subscription?

No, your Spotify playlist won't disappear even you choose to cancel your subscription. You can still access your playlist if you switch to Spotify's free tier. However, your downloaded Spotify playlist will disappear if you lose your subscription, since the downloading feature of music is only available on Premium. If you want to keep your downloaded Spotify music forever, you're highly recommended to download them to audio files using third-party tool.

#5. Can I transfer my Spotify playlist to another music streaming service?

Yes, you can transfer your Spotify playlist to another music streaming service that has files upload feature such as Amazon Music, Apple Music (iTunes), Deezer, YouTube Music and more using third-party tools such as TuneMyMusic or SongShift.

However, these third-party tools only transfer the data of your selection. If you want to keep your Spotify playlists in these music services, storage devices, or cloud storage services, you may need to download your Spotify playlists to MP3 using a Spotify music downloader.

Part 2. How to Keep Spotify Music Forever without Premium

If you try to find the downloaded Spotify music files on your computer, you'll find out that all of them are stored as cached files that are only available to be played offline on the Spotify platform. If you try to put them to your storage device, unfortunately they are even unrecognizable in any media player expect for Spotify because of the DRM protection. If you want to keep your favorite Spotify music forever on any devices, you have to use a third-party tool features a Spotify music downloader such as ViWizard Spotify Music Converter by downloading the desired Spotify music and converting to several audio files that are supported on your storage device or service.

Best Spotify Music Downloader for Windows & Mac - ViWizard Spotify Music Converter

Added with the DRM removal function, ViWizard Spotify Music Converter is designed for both Premium and Free users to download any music tracks from Spotify to common audio files, including MP3, M4A, M4B, WAV, AAC and FLAC. Additionally, ViWizard will preserve the lossless audio quality and full ID3 tags, so the audio content can be read and displayed in any media player, ensuring your positive listening experience. If you wish to organize your downloaded Spotify music well on your computer, you can even archive the output tracks by Artist, Album, Artist/Album, and ViWizard will sort the output folder and files well.

ViWizard Spotify Music Converter is available on both Windows PC and Mac, just ensure to download the correct version of ViWizard and the Spotify desktop client and you're ready to go.

Step 1Add Spotify Music to Download

Launch the ViWizard Spotify Music Converter on your PC or Mac, and choose to launch or relaunch the Spotify desktop app. While you're logged in to Spotify with your Premium or free account, select any music tracks you want to download from Spotify, and drag/drop them to ViWizard.

Step 2Set Output Preferences

Then in the ViWizard Spotify Music Converter, click the menu icon at the top right of the screen and select the Preferences option. Go to the Convert and choose MP3, M4A, M4B, WAV, AAC, or FLAC for the output format.

Step 3Download and Convert Spotify Music

Now click the Convert button at the bottom left of the screen to start the conversion, and the conversion will be at a very faster speed. ViWizard should works as expected to download the music tracks to your hard disk to keep forever.

Part 3. How to Keep Spotify Music Forever for Free on Spotify App

If you still want to keep and play your downloaded music on the Spotify app, you can take advantage of the Local Files feature, which allows you to upload your local files from your computer to the Spotify desktop app, even you don't have Premium subscription. As long as the audio files are remained on your computer, the uploaded files are kept on the Spotify desktop app forever.

How to upload downloaded Spotify music to Spotify desktop app:

Step 1. On your Windows or Mac, open the Spotify desktop app.

Step 2. Chick the Profile icon in the upper-right corner > Settings.

Step 3. Scroll to Local Files, then toggle Show Local Files to enable the Local Files feature. And the Add a source button will show up under Show songs from.

Step 4. Click on Add a source.

Step 5. Browse for the folder that contains the compatible Spotify music files with the Local Files features.

Step 6. Click OK to confirm your choice of music folder.

Step 7. Now the downloaded Spotify music files you want to keep on the Spotify desktop app will show up in Local Files playlist in Your Library. You can play them using the Spotify media player offline even without Premium subscription.

Part 4. How to Keep Spotify Music Forever on USB Storage

If you run out of the storage, you can put the downloaded Spotify music to a USB flash drive from your computer.

How to transfer downloaded Spotify music to USB storage:

Step 1. Plug your USB flash drive into a USB port on your PC or Mac.

Step 2. On your PC, open the File Explorer by searching for "This PC" from the Search bar.

Step 3. In the pop-up window, locate the section called "Devices And Drives" and find your USB flash drive under it.

Step 4. Now press Ctrl+N to open a new File Explorer window and go to where the downloaded Spotify music files are stored on your PC.

Step 5. Now copy/paste folders or files to your USB flash drive.

Part 5. How to Keep Spotify Music Forever on Cloud Storage

If you want to keep your Spotify Music songs forever with a cloud storage, Google Drive is one of your choices besides iCloud. For starters you should make sure the downloaded Spotify music files are supported by Google Drive in a compatible format such as MP2, MPEG, WAV, .ogg, .opus and follow these steps to upload them to your Drive.

How to upload downloaded Spotify music to Google Drive:

Step 1. Go to the Google Drive site to sign in.

Step 2. Once signed in, click the New button > File/Folder upload.

Step 3. Find and locate the Apple Music songs in the Finder or Files Explorer and add a selection of files to your Drive.

Step 4. Once uploaded, you can now access these audio files under Files.

Summary

Your Spotify music library with the downloaded songs will become unavailable after you lose your subscription. If you wish to keep Spotify music forever, you'll want to use the ViWizard Spotify Music Converter to download it to a compatible format with your devices. If you want to learn more about ViWizard Spotify Music Converter, click the download button to start a free trial.

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