They can’t download/save songs to local computer or play it on their music player, not to mention saving Spotify music to an SD card. With Spotify Premium, although Spotify allows you to sync songs to a recognized SD card, for some reasons it downloads to the Internal Storage instead of external SD card. NoteBurner Spotify Music Converter is arguably the most well-known Spotify playlist transferring tool. It is specially designed for Spotify users to easily download and convert any Spotify track, album and playlist to DRM-free MP3, AAC, FLAC or WAV format, so that you can move unlimited Spotify songs to your external hard drive or other devices without any restriction.

If you have Premium, you can download your favorite songs, albums, playlists, and podcasts, so you can listen to them without an internet connection.

You can download up to 10,000 songs on a maximum of 5 different devices.

Note: If you use the free service you can download podcasts on mobile and tablet.

Note: An internet connection is initially required for downloading. You need to go online at least once every 30 days to keep your music and podcasts downloaded.

Select your device below for more information:

Download music

Note: It’s not possible to download albums or podcasts in the desktop app.

1. Go to the playlist you want to download.
2. Switch Download on .

A green arrow indicates the download was successful.

Set the app to Offline Mode

Note: In Offline Mode, you can only play music you’ve downloaded.

1. Open Spotify.
2. For Mac: In the Apple menu at the top of the screen, click Spotify.
   For Windows: Click File in the Windows menu at the top of the screen.
3. Select Offline Mode.

Download music and podcasts

1. Go to the playlist, album, or podcast you want to download.
2. Tap to download.
   Note: On Android, tap Download on to download an album or playlist.

A green arrow indicates the download was successful.

Note: Podcasts you download are automatically saved to Your Library .

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Set the app to Offline Mode

Note: In Offline Mode, you can only play music and podcasts you’ve downloaded.

1. Tap Home .
2. Tap Settings .
3. Tap Playback.
4. Switch Offline on.

Download with mobile data

By default, downloading with mobile data is disabled. To enable it:

1. Tap Home .
2. Tap Settings .
3. Tap Music Quality.
4. Under Download, switch on Download using cellular.

Tip: We recommend downloading over WiFi to avoid mobile data charges.

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This guide will show you how to change the location where Spotify stores any files that you flag to download in order to be able to play them when you’re offline. This can be particularly helpful if you have a large library and want to store it on an external drive.

ps. If you’re an Android user, you may want to check out this guide for instructions on how save Spotify files on an SD card instead of the internal storage.

Note: this screenshots/images used in this guide are from macOS. If you use the Windows version of Spotify, the steps are nearly identical.

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1. Open the Spotify Preferences by selecting Spotify from your Menu Bar, and then Preferences from the pull-down list. Windows users: select Edit and then Preferences…
2. Scroll to the bottom of the Spotify Preferences and click the SHOW ADVANCED SETTINGS
   button.
3. Scroll down until you find the section titled Offline Songs Storage. Click the CHANGE LOCATION button.
4. Now select the folder where you want Spotify to save files for offline listening etc. It’s worth mentioning that Spotify creates a bit of a ‘mess’ when it stores files – it utilizes a lot of coded folder and file names. You will almost certainly want to create a specific folder to store all of the other folders that Spotify will create.

   When you’ve selected the new location, restart Spotify.

5. When you re-start Spotify it’ll move all of the files to the new location. As illustrated in the screenshot below, it does create a rather confusing series of folders with just as “strangely” named files inside them. It’s OK – you’re not meant to really be sorting through them, it’s just the way Spotify stores things.