#1. AudFree Spotify Playlist Downloader (Mac, Windows)
If you are seeking a professional Spotify downloader, AudFree Spotify Playlist Downloader could be the best option for you. It's a combination of Spotify playlist downloader and converter. It is able to download and convert Spotify music to MP3 and other formats with no quality loss.
Spotify Deezer Music Downloader (Free Chrome Extension) Spotify Deezer Music Downloader is one of the popular extensions of Google Chrome which is specially designed to download the audio tracks from Spotify as well as to Deezer web player. This extension will allow you to convert the playlist and songs from Spotify to MP3. Spotify is one of our favorite podcast apps, and it's a convenient way to keep your music and podcasts all in one place. For offline use, you can either download one-off episodes you'd like to. Spotify offers a massive music library and enables all kinds of subscribers to listen to up-to-date music online anywhere anytime and it doesn’t take up space on your hard drive. But the downside of it, like other streaming music services, is that we are unable to download music from Spotify as local file because of its protection. Although Spotify is available for all kinds of mobile devices like android, iOS and Windows phones, there are still many restrictions. Now, you get the digital audio format Spotify music, thus you can enjoy Spotify music like common music files freely even without installing Spotify app and network connection.
Besides, it operates at up to 5X faster speed due to the innovative DRM decrypting core. Better still, it can keep the original ID3 tags such as track title, number, artist, album, cover, and so on. You can also edit output music quality by adjusting bit rate, channel, sample rate, and so forth.
For both free and premium users, you can use it to enjoy all Spotify music offline without ads. It could be a charming experience to play Spotify on any popular player and device.
How to Download Spotify Playlist
Step 1. Open AudFree Spotify Playlist Downloader. Drag and drop songs or playlists to the main interface of this tool.
Step 2. If necessary, you can customize output format and others in the setting window.
Step 3. Click the 'Convert' button. And then all Spotify playlists will be downloaded at 5X speed.
Pros:
* Download Spotify songs, playlists for both free and premium users
* Convert Spotify playlist to MP3, WAV, FLAC, and others
* Keep lossless quality while downloading the songs
* It works well with Windows Store version of Spotify app
Cons:
* Not free
Download Spotify playlists into mp3 files using YouTube and a simple command-line program written in Go.
I listen to a lot of Spotify and make a lot of playlists. I’d like to listen to them offline, for personal use only - so I could put them on my old-fashioned mp3 player. I decided to try out a couple of “Spotify downloaders” but in the end I decided to make my own.
Disclaimer: Downloading copyright songs may be illegal in your country. This tool is for educational purposes only and was created only to show how Spotify’s API can be used to download music from YouTube. Please support the artists by buying their music.
A search for “Spotify Download” gives about 250 results, some which are quiet popular. I tried the two most popular - one written in Python and one written in Node. Both of them resulted in errors despite my system being new and despite having all of my dependencies up-to-date. Maybe it’s a Windows thing?
First I tried a Spotify downloader written in Python, spotdl
(run using Python 3.7.1 on Windows 10). It resulted in over 300 lines of errors. Something about Could not find JS function 'encodeURIComponent'
. It turned out to be a youtube-dl
problem, which I then upgraded to the new current version. I tried it again and immediately had problems with correct detection of songs. For instance a search for Ian William Craig - Arrive Arrive resolted in a video parodying Hitler.
But eventually I would also get a 403
error and then another NameError: name 'time' is not defined
error. Turns out this was a bug fix to another bug fix that wasn’t pushed to PyPI yet. Ugh Python ecosystems.
Then, I tried a different Spotify downloader written in Node, spotify-playlist-downloader
(run using Node 10.14.1 on Windows 10) which also resulted in an error immediately, something about Cannot read property 'csrftoken' of undefined
.
Writing my own: spotifydownload
In the end, I simply wrote another. I decided to write it in Go, because there would be no dependenecies and anyone could run it without installing an ecosystem (e.g. Python and Node).
There are basically two components to this program: a module for getting songs (getsong) and a command-line utility for downloading the playlists (spotifydownload).
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Getting the songs of YouTube is an important and tricky part. As I saw above, trying to get the song Arrive, Arrive by Ian William Craig resulted in downloading an audio clip from a Hitler parody. The song finding has to have a very high positive rate and a low false positive rate.
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To get the songs then, first I have to make sure that the title of the song and the name of the artist are spelled right. Spelling is important, because YouTube will try to change the spelling if they think it is spelled wrong. For example, when searching for the song Eva by Haerts, the name of the band Haerts seems to be mispelled even though it it isn’t. A search for this song shows YouTube automatically corrects it:
In this situation, you would actually need to load the page from the “Search instead for eva haerts'. Following this link gives the correct results as you would have expected.
Once possible videos are found, then you have to find the best one which best matches the song, as to avoid Hitler parodies or other random videos. A good way I found to do this was to look for auto-generated videos where have the keywords “auto-generated” or “Provided to YouTube”. This avoids getting songs that are simply “live” versions of other songs.
Another important aspect is to skip getting songs that are unable to find the right video. The right video is defined strictly - it is a video that must have the name of the artist in it somewhere, and it must have the title of the song somewhere.
The end result of this is github.com/schollz/getsong. There is a command-line version of this you can run with
You can use this to download individual songs. For instance, if you want to download Arrive, Arrive it will easily find the right YouTube video to download instead of a Hitler parody.
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Getting playlists (schollz/spotifydownload)
The next part is to get the playlists from Spotify and then download all of the songs in the playlist. This is actually very easy as Spotify provides a link to the playlist. Simply go to a playlist and right-click and you’ll see a dropdown menu that lists “Share Playlist link” as an option. Parsing this web link will give you a list of songs and artists that can then be downloaded one at a time using getsong.
I tried doing this other ways, like using a Bearer key, but that would only be useful for private playlists.
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