The Spotify app has access to your local network. Check in your iPhone/iPad settings under Spotify. On desktop, import your local files (with the 'Desktop' steps). Add the files to a new playlist. Log in on your mobile or tablet using the same WiFi as your desktop. Download the playlist with your local files. It means that you can easily import music from Shazam into Spotify. After you sync the two apps, try using Shazam to identify a song. You’ll see an arrow sign next to the play button. Choose Spotify in the drop down menu to play it in the app. The feature is available for both iPhone and Android. Listen To Non-Spotify Music On Spotify.

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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

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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My Playlist On Spotify

Here, we cover hot to get Alexa to play Spotify playlists. You can ask an Amazon smart speaker to play any public playlist on Spotify, as well as playlists that you’ve created in your own Spotify account. Further, you must link that account to your Amazon account via the Alexa app. Once that’s done, you may ask to hear your Spotify playlists in your Spotify account by issuing voice commands to your Echo, Echo Dot, Tap, or Show devices. Or you can do it in the Spotify app itself. We describe both methods below.

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Please see our Spotify Setup Instructions on Amazon Echo Alexa Devices post for detailed instructions on how to connect your Amazon smart speakers to your Spotify account. Do this prior to following the procedures below.

How to Get Alexa to Play Spotify Playlists

Method One: Asking the Alexa Speaker to Play a Spotify Playlist

With your smart speaker turned on and connected to your Amazon and Spotify accounts, ask Alexa to play a Spotify playlist as follows. We asked for one we created named Tom’s Christmas as follows:

• Alexa, play the Tom’s Christmas playlist on Spotify.
• Alexa shuffle the Tom’s Christmas playlist on Spotify.

Your speaker then says something like “[Playing / shuffling] Tom’s Christmas playlist from Spotify.” The shuffle playlist feature does not work as of this writing, as the playlist still plays in the order that songs were added to it when created, though the shuffle command is accepted. To shuffle play the playlist, use method two, described next.

How to Get Alexa to Play Spotify Playlists via the Spotify App

1. Find the Spotify App on your Tablet or Phone

In this demo, we’re running it on an iPad Air, as shown in the next screenshot.

2. Run the Spotify App

Spotify then displays a home screen that looks something like that shown next.

3. Tap the Your Music Link

It’s the one pointed at by the blue arrow in the previous screenshot. Spotify then displays the Your Music screen as shown next.

4. Tap the Playlists Choice to Continue with How to Get Alexa to Play Spotify Playlists

Find the Playlists option at the far left edge of the Your Music screen, which the blue arrow points at in the previous screenshot. The system then displays a list of all the playlists currently saved in the current Spotify account. We currently have four playlists saved in ours, as shown in the next screenshot. In this demo, we’ll be playing the Tom’s Christmas playlist.

5. Tap the Playlist you’d Like to Hear on your Alexa Speaker

As mentioned, we’re going to play the Tom’s Christmas playlist in this demo. So, we tapped that one, pointed at by the blue arrow in the previous screenshot. This brings up a sort of playlist editor screen named after the chosen playlist, as shown in the next screenshot, which lists the songs in that playlist.

6. Start your Selected Playlist Playing

You can have Spotify play the list sequentially from beginning to end by tapping the first song in the list as pointed at by the leftmost blue arrow in the previous screenshot, or you can tap the green Shuffle Play button, which plays the listed songs in random order. In either case, the listed songs begin playing on the current speaker (usually the mobile device on which you’re running the Spotify app), and the playlist editor screen changes to show the Devices Available link, as shown in the next screenshot.

7. Tap the Devices Available Link to Continue with How to Get Alexa to Play Spotify Playlists

This takes you from the playlist editor screen to the Playing From Playlist screen, as shown next. This is a more graphical representation of the previous playlist editor screen, showing a picture of the album from which the current song is taken. This screen also provides controls for pausing playback, skipping ahead to the next song, and skipping back to the previous song in the current playlist. There’s also a progress slider that shows the current position in the song currently playing, and you can also select the speaker or speaker group that Spotify will play through.

8. Again, tap the Devices Available Link

The Devices Available option is pointed at by the blue arrow in the previous screenshot. This brings up a menu style list of available speaker devices and groups that have been set up in the current Spotify account (ours in this demo). This menu is called Devices.

9. Tap the Alexa Based Speaker you Wish to Play the Playlist Through

Select this speaker from a list like the one shown above. You may have to scroll the list to find it if you have lots of devices configured in your Spotify account. In our case here, we want the playlist to play on our Office speaker. Thus, we tapped that entry.

The Devices menu then disappears, taking you back to the Playing from Playlist screen as shown next. Play then stops on the currently playing speaker and moves to the speaker or speaker group just picked.

Also, note that the Devices Available link is replaced by the name of the speaker now playing. You should now be hearing your Spotify playlist on the Amazon Alexa speaker you selected in step 8 above. Enjoy!

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Revision History

• 2020-07-17: Tweaked the targeting.
• 2019-02-21: Added tags.
• 2019-01-25: Added key phrase targeting.
• 2017-12-27: Originally published.