7 Free Ways to Download Spotify to MP3 in 2020

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Although Spotify is perfect for music fans, it does not provide an option to extract the MP3 files from Spotify, thus, the subscribers can't download Spotify songs or play on MP3 player. 'I pay for Spotify premium and can download all my tracks for offline use. Before you can remove DRM from Spotify and add the music to a video, you need to download the tracks onto your computer firstly. It's easy if you are using the premium plan of Spotify. But for free users, you can only stream the music online, unless you use a 3rd-party Spotify music downloader, like TunesKit Spotify Music Converter. How to Add Songs to Spotify. To clarify what you're doing here, you're not actually uploading music in the sense that you're sending it to Spotify's servers. Instead, you're adding your local music to directories on a desktop machine to Spotify, at which point it will include that content when it displays your collection. How to Download Music From Spotify on Mobile. On mobile, you can download playlists, albums, or podcasts. Downloading Albums and Playlists on Spotify. The interface is slightly different on. In order to download Spotify songs, you'll need to create a playlist with the songs in it, though mobile users can also download an album. If you want to save Spotify's music as MP3 files on your computer, you can try ripping the songs from Spotify, but doing so is against Spotify's terms of service and constitutes piracy.

With more than 40 million songs, Spotify offers a massive music library that you can listen to online without taking your storage space. If you pay the premium subscription fee, you can also listen to music offline.

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The only problem is that you can’t transfer them anywhere or play them with other music players other than Spotify because the music files you downloaded with Spotify are DRM(Digital Rights Management) protected. In this article, I will show you 7 ways to download songs from Spotify as MP3 without recording even if you don’t have Spotify Premium. No matter what devices you use, you can find at least 2 methods that work for you.

Disclaimer

All these methods are for personal or educational use only.

You should not use any of these tools to pirate or distribute music.

Some of the methods may be illegal to use this in your country, so be informed.

Method 1: Download Spotify song or playlist with Siri Shortcuts

If you are using an iOS device, you probably have heard of the automation application Shortcuts, which is the updated version of Workflow. I have three shortcuts to help you download music from Spotify.

If you are not familiar with Shortcuts, you can free download it from AppStore and get a few pre-made shortcuts in the Shortcuts Gallery to see how it work. To get the shortcuts that I am about to show you, you just open the link in Safari to download it.

This Spotify playlist downloader can only download an entire Spotify playlist. You will have an option to select some of the tracks in the playlist to download if you don’t want to download them all.

Note: This only works for playlist. It won’t work if you input a Spotify track link. It is recommended to run it from Spotify share sheet.

You can simply copy the Spotify playlist link from Spotify app and run this shortcut. You can also tap the Share button to run this shortcut from the share sheet. Besides the playlist link, you can also input playlist ID Or playlist URI to download Spotify playlist to MP3.

When downloaded, you can open the Files app, and then select iCloud > Shortcuts > Music to check the downloaded MP3 file. If you are not familiar with iOS Shortcuts, be sure to watch this video below to see how it works.

For advanced users, you can also use Shortcuts to Move Spotify Playlist to Apple Music and vise versa. Though the authentication process is a little complicated when you want to transfer playlists to Spotify by using Spotify API.

Method 2: Download Spotify to MP3 Using Telegram Bot

If you use Telegram, you can simply use a Telegram bot to download free music whether you are on Android or iOS. It does not require any setup or your Spotify account login info. All you need is this @SpotifyMusicDownloaderBot. After you get this bot, type “/start” (without quotes) and then you can paste any Spotify track link to start downloading music for free. If you are using iOS, you may want to tap the Share button and save to Files after the music is downloaded.

If you do like using Telegram bots to download music, you probably also want to check this post to get more Telegram Bots for music.

Method 3: Download Spotify Playlist to FLAC or MP3

There is another open-source software called Deezloader, which is developed to download music from Deezer, can also be used to download a playlist from Spotify. The software actually converts the Spotify playlist to Deezer playlist and then download music from Deezer. You can set it to download Spotify Playlist as MP3 or FLAC. The lastest version Deezloader Remix 4.2.2 also allows you to download any single Spotify track and it much easier to set up.

Step 1. Download and install Deezer Remix. Log in with your Deezer account (free account also works).

Step 2. Go to this link: https://developer.spotify.com/dashboard/applications and log in with your Spotify account (free account works).

Step 3. Click on Create a Client ID and then compile the form as you like.

Step 4. Save the settings and then you will see the Client ID and Client Secret. Copy the Client ID and Client Secret to Deezloader Remix.

If you are using an older version of Deezloader Remix, the setup is a little bit complicated than this. You can refer to this video to see the configure process.

As you know, not all tracks on Spotify are also available on Deezer, so you will see some tracks are failed to download because Deezloader cannot find the matched songs. If you want a tool to download all tracks from Spotify playlist, keep reading to see the next tool.

Update: Since Deezloader is discontinued, you can only use this method to download 128kbps MP3. If you prefer high quality, jump to Method 5.

Method 4: Download Spotify to MP3 with AllToMP3

AllToMP3 is free open source software that allows you to download music from Spotify, YouTube, SoundCloud, and Deezer. It is available in Windows, macOS, and Linux. If you check the source code, it is easy to find out that it actually matches the Spotify music track with YouTube video and convert YouTube video to MP3, so the music quality is not as good the other methods. You can free download from its website or Github.

After installation, you can paste the Spotify song link or playlist link and press Enter to start downloading. The music, by default, will be saved in the Music folder. The downloaded music files include all the tags and cover art, but the quality is nowhere close to the next free tool.

Method 5: Download Spotify Music Using Allavsoft

Allavsoft is your ultimate media downloader software for Windows and Mac. It allows you to directly download Spotify playlist, album music to MP3, FLAC, WAV, M4A, WMA, etc with ID3 tags.

The latest version allows you to download Spotify music as FLAC (1441 kbps). Unlike Deezloader, you download all the songs that Deezloader cannot download, literally, unmatched songs with Allavsoft. For me, Allavsoft is the best Spotify Music Downloader.

Once you get it installed, you can copy the Spotify music link whether it is a song, album, or playlist and then launch Allavsoft. The program will automatically paste the URL and you just need to click Download to start downloading.

By default, it saves Spotify music to MP3 as 320 kbps with artwork and other metadata, so you don’t need to check the option “Automatically Convert to”. If you choose the Best Available quality, you may find some songs are downloaded as FLAC 1411 kbps, which is really cool. If you want to convert Spotify Music to FLAC, WAV, AIFF, AAC, WMA, DTS, etc, you can click the “Automatically Convert to” button to select the specific format from the drop-down menu.

Besides Spotify, Allavsoft allows you to download music from Deezer, SoundCloud, MixCloud, and download videos from Udemy, Lyda, YouTube, Facebook, etc. That is to say, Allavsoft is the only downloader software that you ever need.

Method 6: Convert Spotify music to MP3 with TuneMobie

There are many programs that claim to be able to convert Spotify, but deep down they are recording the audio, TuneMobie is one of them. I tried both free and paid versions. Let me tell you how it really works.

When you open this program TuneMobie, it asks you to launch the Spotify app or download it if you haven’t. Then you can see in the preference where you can select to save as mp3, m4a, WAV, and FLAC. These are all the supported audio formats and other settings that you customize.

When you try to convert a song, the Spotify app actually plays the song, but you hear no sound. Compared to other audio-recording kinds of competitors, Tunemobie Spotify Converter is 5 times faster. Usually, it takes less than 1 minute to convert a song.

You can also copy a playlist link to download Spotify playlist as MP3 or other formats. The trial version allows you to download (record) unlimited tracks for the first 3 munites in 30 days, which is much better than its competitors.

Method 7: Download Spotify with a Chrome extension

If you use Chrome web browser, you can install this free extension and then you can see a download button appears when you go to Spotify web player. You now can click on the download button to download almost all the songs from Spotify web player.
Why do I say almost? Because this extension certainly is not downloading music from Spotify directly. You just download music from its own server, so you will see some Spotify tracks are not available in their server for downloading. Some tracks downloaded using this extension may not be the same version as the Spotify version.

Bonus: Chimera — Multiple Source Music Downloader for Advanced Users Only

Chimera is a command-line based multiple source music downloader that allows you to download music from Spotify, Deezer, Tidal, Soundcloud, Napster, Qobuz, Google Play Music, etc.

It is open-source and completely free to use for educational and private use only. It is very powerful, but the setup process is more complicated than the other methods. You can choose Spotify source from Deezer, Tidal, or Qobuz.

As you know, Tidal and Qobuz provide Hi-res quality music. If you have paid subscription, you can use this tool to download Spotify music in very high quality in FLAC format.

You will need to grant your Spotify account through Spotify client ID and client secret. Based on your choice, you need to also set up Deezer, Tidal, or Qobuz account. For detailed steps, check this guide to see how to set it up.

Conclusion

That’s all the seven different methods for downloading Spotify music to MP3. If you care about music quality, then Allavsoft is the best choice. Personally, I like the Allavsoft method the most because it is convenient, high quality, and with cover art. More importantly, you don’t need any other video/music downloader software anymore once you have Allavsoft installed since it supports more than 1000 websites.

If you really love the iOS environment, then Shortcuts is a great way to download music on iPhone. Now, it is your turn. Which method are you going to try first? If you have other better method to download music from Spotify, please share it in the comments.

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The famous music streaming service Spotify gives you easy access to million of songs online, but there are also some limitations. For example, free users will be interrupted by ads and can't download Spotify music for offline listening. Premium users can only download Spotify music on 3 devices (at most 3,333 songs per device). Also the downloaded playlists are DRM protected and can only be played with Spotify app. You can't move them anywhere or play them with other music player or devices.

Well, the best solution to remove above limitations is to find a Spotify downloader tool to download Spotify music as mp3 with either free or premium account. Here are many tools claim that they can download Spotify playlists, but not all of them work as advertised.

We have tested most of the Spotify downloader tools on the internet and chosen 5 of them that we suggest you have a try.

Ondesoft Spotify Converter

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Ondesoft Spotify Downloader is the most professional Spotify music downloader for both Mac&Windows users to download Spotify songs, albums and playlists to mp3, m4a, wav and flac. Ondesoft Spotify Music Converter downloads Spotify music by recording the songs from spotify app and save them in mp3, m4a, wav or flac. It can preserve 100% original quality and all ID3 tags of the recorded songs. All you need to do is drag&drop the songs you want to download and then click 'Convert'. Batch conversion is supported and you can drag as many songs, albums and playlists you like to below interface and download them simultaneously. Ondesoft Spotify Converter also allows you to uncheck the songs you don't want to download from any playlist. Other Spotify playlist downloader only supports downloading the whole playlist.
Tutorial: How to download Spotify playlists with Ondesoft Spotify Converter?
Price : Lifetime license $39.95

Pros: Fast and easy-to-use.
Download as many songs&playlists as you like simultaneously.
Preserve original ID3 tags.
100% original quality, up to 320kbps.
Cons: Spotify will be used during downloading.

iMusic

iMusic from Aimersoft is an all-in-one streaming music downloader to discover, record and download music. It allows you to download songs from more than 3,000 music sites, including YouTube, Spotify, Pandora, last.fm, Vimeo, Dailymotion, Facebook, VEVO, and more on your Mac/PC. When you use it to download Spotify music, it searches the songs from YouTube and then downloads them. You need to be access to YouTube on your computer.
Price : Lifetime license $59.95

Pros: Easy to use.
ID3 tags preserved.
Cons: Doesn't support drag&drop.
Download Spotify music from online libraries. Can't download some albums and playlists.

AllToMP3

AllToMP3 is a desktop application to download and convert YouTube, SoundCloud, Spotify and Deezer in 256 kb/s MP3, with ID3 tags: cover, title, artist. Compared to the above two Spotify downloader, it is more user-friendly and effortless. Just copy&paste the link of the Spotify song, album or playlist to the top area, click Enter on your keyboard and the downloading begins. After downlading, flind the mp3 songs in the output folder. Same as iMusic, AllToMP3 downloads Spotify music from YouTube, so make sure you can access to YouTube on that computer. If the songs are not included in YouTube, it won't be downloaded.
Price : Free

Pros: free
Keep ID3 tags.
Cons : Download only the first 100 songs in a playlist.
Downloads songs from the YouTube.
May download wrong songs.

Apowersoft Audio Recorder

Apowersoft Audio Recorder allows you to record streaming music from music sites, video playforms, radio stations or capture sound from audio chats effortlessly. Is can be used as a Spotify downloader to download any Spotify songs, albums and playlists by recording them in MP3, WMA, AAC, M4A, WAV, M4R and AC3. It will recognize ID3 tags of the recorded Spotify music, but you can also edit the tags afterwards.
Price : Lifetime license $79.95

Pros: Can record audio segments.
Cons: Have to manually play and stop Spotify music.
Windows version can't recognize individual songs.
Can't customize output song quality.

Wondershare Streaming Audio Recorder

Wondershare Streaming Audio Recorder is a real-time digital audio recorder that records any audio source that’s automatically detected on your computer. You can use it to record Spotify songs in MP3 or M4A format. As it records sound from soundcard not Spotify app, make sure no other sound is played during the recording, or it will be recorded together.
Price : Lifetime license $19 for Windows and $29 for Mac

Pros: Remove ads.
Recognize ID3 tags automatically.
Cons: Have to manually play and stop Spotify music.
Output format only mp3 and m4a.
Only record at up to 256kbps.

Spotify downloader that we don't recommend

Below results often appear when you google Spotify playlist downloader, but we don't recommend them for below reasons.

1 GitHub - ritiek/spotify-downloader

• Spotify-Downloader downloads songs from YouTube in an MP3 format by using Spotify's HTTP link. It's not an app or a website with user-friendly interface. You need to be a technical professional and know how to code to use it.

2. Spotify Downloader for Android

There is an Android app called Spotify Downloader, which allows you to download Spotify songs on Android devices for free. You can download the apk from Aptoide or GetJar. You just need to enter your spotify user account name (or any account name), click on the playlist, then select the tracks and click on 'Start'. You don't need to use your password or authenticate. Seems pretty easy, hah? But the user ratings for this Spotify Downloader is only 3.21. Many users complain that it often says there is a problem with internet connection and couldn't download anything. Besides, it downloads songs from YouTube, not Spotify. Sometimes it doesn't download the entire song, sometimes only a minute and a half of it.

3. www.playlist-converter.net/

Actually it's not a Spotify playlist downloader at all. It only allows you to convert your Spotify playlists to free text, Deezer, SoundCloud, CSV and link.

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