Save Music From Spotify To Mac

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'How can I save Spotify songs to computer?'


Have you puzzled about saving Spotify Music to computer? Even when you have subscribed as a Spotify Premium Membership, you just got the cache files but not the Spotify Music files? That is because Spotify is a streaming music app and the music file you have downloaded are DRM-protected files. Knowing your need to save Spotify songs to computer, we will show you the best way to get Spotify fully saved to your local computer, whether you are a free user or a premium user. Now, let's have a brief look at the traditional way to save Spotify music to your desktop.


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Part 1. Traditional Way to Save Spotify Songs on Desktop

In a general manner, having subscribed to Premium, you can easily save Spotify songs to your desktop. Unfortunately, you can listen to the saved Spotify songs within the Spotify app and cannot enjoy Spotify songs individually. If you don't want to save Spotify songs to desktop in this way, you can move onto the second part.


Step 1. Open the Spotify app and then you can see all the Spotify music playlists on your Spotify music library. Pick up one playlist or song that you want to save to your local computer.


Step 2. On the main interface of your playlists, here is Download switch. Press the 'Download' button, you can easily save all the Spotify songs of the selected playlists. When the whole downloading process finished, you can find these Spotify songs in your computer folder.

Now you can enjoy Spotify songs playing on your computer without the Internet. But as we have mentioned before, you can just enjoy Spotify music merely on the Spotify app. So, how can you save Spotify songs to your computer and play it without Spotify app? That is what I want to share an effective way to save Spotify songs to computer with you all on the following part. Keep reading.


Part 2. Effective Way to Save Spotify Songs to Computer (100% Working)

To save Spotify songs, playlists, albums to computer, it is better to get the Spotify downloaded as the DRM-free music. Due to the difficulty of breaking DRM from Spotify, here we highly recommend saving Spotify songs to computer with the effective tool, TuneFab Spotify Music Converter Lite.


TuneFab Spotify Music Converter Lite is specially designed for downloading songs, playlists, albums from Spotify even without the premium subscription so that it is easy for Spotify free and Spotify Premium save Spotify music to computer. Various DRM-free formats such as MP3, M4A, WAV, and FLAC are available for setting as output file formats. Besides, all the converted music will be kept as the original music quality. What's more, it has the highlight feature for Windows users, and that is converting the Spotify Music in the 5x conversion speed.

Now, let's take a look at the detailed tutorial on saving Spotify songs to the computer.


Warming up:

#1 Please click to the 'Try It Free' button to get TuneFab Spotify Music Converter Lite fully downloaded on your desktop. When the whole downloading progress is finished, you can click to the note-shaped icon to install the TuneFab Spotify Music Converter Lite. When the installation is over, then you can move on to the first step.

#2 For Spotify windows users, please download Spotify app from the Spotify Official website (not Windows app store) first before the whole conversion. It will make the whole conversion perfectly functioning.

Step 1. 2 Ways to Add Spotify Songs/Playlists/Albums to Converter

Instead of providing the complex operation, TuneFab Spotify Music Converter Lite offers you the easy way to add Spotify music to the converter so as to save the music to the computer.

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Method One: On the Spotify app, you can select the Spotify playlists or songs and then just drag the Spotify music/song/playlists/albums to the main interface of TuneFab Spotify Music Converter Lite.


Method Two: On the Spotify app, you can click to the Spotify music playlist and copy the Spotify Music playlists link, and then you can paste it on to the search bar on the center of Spotify Music Converter Lite.

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When the whole adding Spotify songs progress is finished, please don't forget to click to 'Add Files' again to confirm all the music has successfully added to the Spotify Music Converter.


Step 2. Customize Output Settings

To customize output settings, you can click to the Down-arrow button to choose the music format from the drop-down list. There are MP3, M4A, WAV(Windows Only), FLAC for Spotify Free, and Spotify Premium users. For the playable convenience, we recommend converting Spotify Music to MP3, the commonly-used format.


Step 3. Convert Spotify Songs/ Playlists/Albums to MP3 for Saving

Click 'Convert All' to start converting the song. Once the conversion is finished, hit the Finished button on the center of the main interface for viewing the output files. See, it is easy for you now to listen to the song whenever you like.


Tips: If you want to save Spotify songs to your iPhone, you can keep reading the following post and make it by yourself.

Ultimate Guidance: Get the Best Way to Download and Save Music from Spotify to iPhone


With these 3 steps above, you can easy to save whatever Spotify songs to your computer and enjoy Spotify music without the connection to the Internet. If you think it also helpful for your friends, just go ahead and share it with them. Feel free to contact us, if you have any problem with enjoying Spotify music.


Many music enthusiasts are finding solutions on saving Spotify music to hard drive. Congratulations, this is the perfect guide for you no matter for what purpose you want your songs stored in external hard drive and play them in MP3 format. Read on to see why.


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Part 1. Why Saving Spotify Music to Hard Drive

Purpose 1: Back Up Songs on Hard Drive

In this digital era, a backup on hard drive is very crucial because it can cause least damage when one of your device is broken. If unfortunately, your music folder on Android phone is deleted accidentally, you can copy the folder from external hard drive to your phone without heart-breaking.


Purpose 2: A Portable Access to Play Music on Different Devices As You Wish

I understand you very much because I am also obsessed with music. I listen to music a lot every day:

* When reading books

* When doing housework

* When taking a bath

* When self-driving on expressway

...


Part 2. Play Spotify Music in Car Offline with External Hard Drive

Sometimes I play Spotify music on Android, iPad and my working computer. however, when I try to play music in my car, there's a little trouble:

Most tutorials for playing Spotify music in car is either using USB cable, bluetooth or internet connection. All these methods will either consume battery of our phone or use phone data a lot. None of them are the best choice when we are going for a long way self-drive.


Thus, transferring Spotify music to hard drive is, without doubt, the most perfect and practical option to play music offline in car.


Part 3. How to Download Spotify Music to Hard Drive

First thing first, we need to remove DRM restriction of the Spotify music. DRM, short for Digital Rights Management, is a layer added to protect artists' song from being illegally used. Therefore, songs on Spotify and other music streaming services can't be copied or played on some devices unless DRM restriction is removed.


To remove DRM restriction of Spotify songs and convert it into MP3, you need to prepare: A computer, A USB hard drive and a powerful software - TuneFab Spotify Music Converter.


TuneFab Spotify Music Converter is a almighty music converter that meets all your requirements on song format converting. It enables you to:

1. Download Spotify Music Freely;

2. Simply Drag and Drop Songs into Converter;

3. Convert Spotify songs to MP3, WAV, M4A, FLAC;

4. Customize Audio Parameters including Bit Rate and Sample Rate.

Now, let's head to the simple but powerful troubleshooting part.

Step 1. Download and Launch TuneFab Spotify Music Converter

First of all, download and install the Spotify music converter as instructed step-by-step. Then, when finishing the installation, launch the program, and you will see the interface as below.


Step 2. Add Spotify Songs

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If you are a premium Spotify users and have downloaded some songs, you can hit on 'Add Files' in the top-left corner of the interface or drag songs, albums, playlists or tracks from Spotify. If you don't use a paid Spotify plan, you can't download Spotify songs. Searching the songs you want to convert and copy and paste the link into the search bar is also available. Then, click 'Add'.

Note: If you are considering whether to purchase Spotify Premium, you can check this post: Spotify Free vs. Premium: Should I Pay for It before you make a decision.


Step 3. Select Songs to Convert

Now, as listed in the program, you are allowed to tick to select the songs you want to convert, after choosing all you want, click 'Add' again.


Step 4. Set MP3 as Output Format

Click on the 'Options' button next to 'Add Files'. On the pop-up window you will see two choices, 'General' and 'Advanced', hit on 'Advanced' and choose 'MP3' in the drop-down menu next to Format. You can also choose SampleRate and BitRate before conversion.


Step 5. Set up Output Path

By clicking 'Options' > 'General', you can change the default output folder to any folder that you want to store your Spotify songs.


Step 6. Start Converting Spotify Songs

Now, everything's ready, just hit on the 'Convert' option and you can start the conversion.


Step 7. Copy MP3 Songs to External Hard Drive

Plug in your external hard drive to the USB port of your PC, and wait till the driver is automatically installed on your computer. Locate the output path you just set-up in Step 5. Now you can copy and paste the MP3 files into your hard drive as needed.

Save Music From Spotify To Computer


That's it. With these simple steps, you can remove DRM restriction of Spotify music and convert MP3 songs into your hard drive. Playing Spoyify music offline in car becomes a piece of cake.

Save Music From Spotify To Mac Computer