Feb 23, 2018

How to Easily Download Spotify Music Offline with Premium and Free Accounts


By paying $9.99 a month for premium plan, Spotify lets you download and listen to high quality songs and playlists on multiple devices offline. Free users who don’t want to upgrade to Spotify Premium will have to stream the ads-supported songs online only. In this article, we are going to introduce you not only the complete guide on how to download Spotify music on iOS, Android, Mac and PC with premium subscription, but also the alternative for free users to download Spotify songs for offline listening. Here we go.

Part 1. How to Download Spotify Playlists on PC/Mac – For Premium Users Only


Step 1. Log into your Spotify Premium account and move to the playlists or library where the songs are collected. If you however haven’t added any track yet, simply browse the Spotify channel to find some songs you like and right-click on them to add the tracks to your playlist. Or you can press on the three dots button next to the song and add it to the library.

Step 2. Navigate to the playlist and you’ll see a toggle button as ‘Download‘. Switch the button to on, and your playlist will automatically download for offline listening. You’ll find the ‘Download‘ button turns to ‘Downloading‘, indicating the download is in progress. Once it’s completed, it will be replaced by a ‘Downloaded‘ status.

Step 3.
Once downloaded, navigate to File at the top left-hand side of the Spotify app and click on the ‘Offline Mode‘ option. In this way, you’ll be able to listen to those Spotify playlists and songs even when there’s no internet connection.

Note:
By using this method, you can’t download individual Spotify songs but have to either download an entire album or save the track to a playlist, which you can then download for offline listening. Besides, the option to download Spotify songs and playlists is currently not available for the web player yet.


Part 2. How to Download Spotify Songs on iOS/Android – For Premium Subscribers Only


If you prefer to listening to Spotify music on mobile devices, this method could be the best option for you to download Spotify songs offline.

Step 1. Log in your Spotify account via the music app on your mobile phone or tablet. Go to the desired playlist you would like to download. If there’s no playlist yet, simply create one.

Step 2.
Switch the ‘Download‘ button on to let it downloading the Spotify music for you automatically.

Step 3. Once you’ve downloaded the songs, you can enable Offline Mode by navigating to Settings > Playback from left-hand menu.

Part 3. How to Save Spotify Music as Offline MP3 – For both Premium and Free Users


This method could be the best and easiest one for both Spotify Premium and Free subscribers. In fact, Spotify songs are encoded in a protected format, due to which the tracks don’t actually save to your phone or PC. Therefore, you’ll find it’s impossible to share the offline Spotify tracks to other apps or players even if you downloaded the songs with Premium account. But don’t worry. To solve this trouble, TunesKit Spotify Music Converter will be of great help. It’s a smart Spotify music downloader that can download any music and playlist from Spotify as MP3 and other common formats even if you are using free subscription. Besides, it will remove the ads in the songs. You can follow the guide below to see how it works.

Step 1.
After launching TunesKit Spotify Converter, the Spotify desktop app will be launched automatically. Log into the account and find any track or playlist that you want to download. Then drag the songs from Spotify to TunesKit.

Step 2.
Go to top menu bar and select Preferences. In the popup window, you can choose the output format such as MP3, AAC, WAV, FLAC, etc. as you like. You can also set the audio parameters, quality, speed according to your requirements.

Step 3.
Click the ‘Convert’ button to begin downloading the Spotify songs as MP3 or other formats to your computer. Once downloaded, you can copy and transfer them to any device or player for offline listening.

Feb 5, 2018

[Reviews] Top 3 Best Spotify Downloader of 2018


If you use Spotify, you should know that only premium users are able to download the streaming music with high quality for offline listening. Free users can only listen to the songs online with random ads occurring during playback. Luckily, as the demand of downloading Spotify music grows rapidly among free users, many Spotify downloaders have been developed and released through the internet, including free and paid solutions. However, since not all of them work as advertised, in order to save your time and energy, we took your job and made a top list of the 3 best Spotify playlist downloaders of 2018 that are 100% working, in consideration of software security, ease of use, performance, quality and more.

No 1. TunesKit Spotify Music Downloader (Mac & Windows)


TunesKit Music Downloader for Spotify is one of the best music downloader and manager for Spotify. It’s able to help any Spotify user, both free and premium to download any track, album, artist and playlist from Spotify for offline playback. By saving the downloaded Spotify songs as MP3, AAC, WAV, FLAC and other popular formats with lossless quality, it enables you enjoy Spotify music on any MP3 player as you want. Only with one click, you can download any ads-free Spotify track or playlist with original ID3 tags preserved at 5X speed. You are also allowed to edit the output music quality by setting audio codec, bit rate, sample rate according to your own requirements.

Pros:
  • Exclusive lossless Spotify music downloader;
  • Directly download Spotify playlists in one click;
  • Save Spotify music in MP3, AAC, FLAV, WAV, M4A, M4B;
  • Keep ID3 tags;
  • No extra hardware required, very easy to use.

Cons:
  • Only English UI available.

See also:
How to Download Spotify Music as MP3 with TunesKit.

No 2. KeepVid Music


KeepVid Music, also known as iMusic, is a comprehensive streaming music downloader that works not only with Spotify, but also downloads playlists from over 3,000 music sites such as Pandora, Deezer, Tidal, Google Play Music, etc. It’s also serving as an all-in-one music manager, allowing you easily download, manage and share Spotify playlists in high quality. In addition to downloading Spotify music, it can also record any song play through your computer. If you have any need to transfer media between iDevices without iTunes, KeepVid Music will immediately get it done for you.

Pros:
  • Support direct downloading as well as recording;
  • Download Spotify and other 3000+ streaming music sources;
  • Transfer downloaded Spotify songs to iOS devices easily;
  • Fix ID3 tags.

Cons:
  • Support MP3 output only.

No 3. Spotiload (formerly called Spotify VK Downloader)


Formerly known as Spotify VK Downloader, Spotiload is actually a chrome extension which uses vk.com social network to download songs from any Spotify playlist and save them in MP3 format. It can be easily found in extension section on Chrome browser. Once installed, it will require you to log into a vk.com account. Then you can simply create an account and go to Spotify to browse the playlists you want to download offline. From the Spotiload toolbox, you can select the tracks and click the “Download” button to get the songs.

Pros:
  • Easy to install;
  • Free of charge.

Cons:

  • Using vk.com is illegal and not allowed in some countries;
  • Only download Spotify songs available on vk.com;
  • Unstable when downloading Spotify songs with multiple artists;
  • Output music quality is lossy.

Conclusion & Suggestion

To sum up, if you care much about the downloading speed and quality of Spotify songs, TunesKit Spotify Music Converter could be the best option with an affordable price. If you want to download not only Spotify music, but also other streaming tracks, KeepVid Music is the top priority. If you however considering a free solution, you can go for Spotiload. If you know any other efficient Spotify playlist downloader, please don’t be hesitate to leave you comments below.