How to Download and Convert Spotify Music to MP3 format

By Sarah ConnorUpdated on July 09, 2018

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Summary:

Looking for Spotify music downloader tool to download and convert Spotify songs/ music to MP3 for offline listening on MP3 players, iPod, iPhone and other mobile phone? This article teach you two ways to download and convert Spotify music to MP3 format easily.

Spotify is the world’s largest genuine streaming media music service platform, in October 2008 in Stockholm, the official launch of the Swedish capital. Spotify offers free and paid services. Spotify – three member services: Free, Unlimited (£4.99 per month), and Premium (£9.99 per month). And they each offer different capabilities and limits, depending upon which device you are using to access Spotify. Free users will be in the use of Spotify’s services will be inserted certain ads, paying users without ads, and have a better sound quality.

• Method 1: How to Free Download and Convert Spotify Music to MP3 Format
• Method 2: How to Record Spotify Music as MP3

People can’t listen the music of Spotify without the network connection, Spotify Free users are not allowed to stream the Spotify music and they not allowed download Spotify songs for offline listening. The premium users can download Spotify music but they are restricted to play Spotify music on the authorized devices. If you want to download Spotify music and playing freely on your MP3 player/car/iPod or other portable devices, you need to download Spotify music as MP3 or record Spotify music in MP3 format.

Spotify has received support from Warner Music, Sony, EMI and several other record companies around the world that offer genuine music, but Spotify provides online listening and can not download music. In addition to being able to use this software on your computer, you can also use it on your phone. Apple’s iTunes uses a paid download mode, compared to Spotify smooth operation, easier to use, can choose more than a lot of tracks, the most important is: Spotify is free to use. As a result, this kind of network music transmission without spending money and without legal and moral risks naturally welcome.

Spotify is a music streaming service like Apple Music, Google Play Music, Tidal, Pandora, SoundCloud and YouTube Red,Spotify not a music downloader. However, many users may ask how to download Spotify music as MP3 and offline listening on MP3 player, iPod, iPhone, Android mobile phone or other devices?

“Is there any way to download and convert Spotify music to MP3? Songs in Spotify are protected with DRM encryption,I want to download Spotify music as MP3 format and listening on my MP3 player,is there any Spotify music recording software to record Spotify music as MP3?” –Lula

“I want to play Spotify music on my Samsung Galaxy S8,the Samsung phone compatible with MP3 files,how to download MP3 music on Spotify?” — Chirstana

As a popular music streaming service, Spotify uses DRM to protect its over 30 million songs.If you are a long-awaited Spotify user who want to download and save Spotify music as MP3 like Lula,you need to us a Spotify Music Downloader and Speedy Converter to losslessly download and convert Spotify music as MP3,because Spotify Music uses Ogg Vorbis as their streaming format,all songs are protected without DRM encryption,you cannot listen to the songs offline. Even though you can download Spotify music for offline listening with a Premium account, the local songs you get are DRM protected and you can only play them within Spotify App.

How to Free Download and Convert Spotify Music to MP3 Format

If you want to download music from Spotify and save them as DRM-free MP3 format,you need to remove the DRM protection from Spotify music and convert them to MP3 format

Spotify Music Converter is designed to convert the songs, playlists, albums in Spotify to DRM-free MP3, M4A, WAV, FLAC, etc. and download them with Free or Premium subscription, so that you can use Spotify music more freedom and convenience. For Spotify free users, Spotify Music to MP3 Converter program can also completely remove Spotify ads after conversion.

-Easily remove DRM from Spotify Music and Spotify ads.
-Record Spotify music with 100% original quality.
-Convert Spotify songs and playlists to MP3, M4A, WAV, AAC and FLAC.
-Listen to Spotify Music offline for Free.
-Burn Spotify music to CD for you enjoy on your car.
-Customize output Spotify music quality.
-Preserve all original ID3 tags.
-100% lossless quality and 5X conversion speed.

Steps to Convert Spotify Music to MP3 and Download them

Here,we take converting Spotify Music to MP3 format on Macbook, Macbook Pro, iMac as example by Spotify Music Converter(Mac),you can also download the Spotify Music Converter for Windows to remove Spotify Music DRM protection.

Step 1.Run Spotify Music Converter on Mac

In order to get free Spotify music in MP3 format,you need to download, install and run the Spotify Music Converter on your Mac,then you will see it’s main interface as below.

Step 2.Add Spotify Music Links to the Program

Here,there are two methods for you import music from Spotify to the program:

1)If you have installed Spotify app and logged in your account, whether free or premium, you can drag songs, playlists or albums from Spotify app to the Spotify Music Converter interface directly.
2)If you are using the web player, copy&paste the link of the song, album or playlist. And then click “Add” the Spotify music links to the program,then it will load all the songs to the software quickly.

Step 3.Choose MP3 as Output Format

After adding the music from Spotify to the software successfully, you can click setting button to change the basic parameters (Including Output format, Output quality and Conversion speed, etc). If you need to convert Spotify music to MP3, please choose MP3 as output format.

The default output format is MP3,the software also supports convert Spotify music to M4A, AAC, WAV, FLAC. You can also change the output folder, bitrate and samplerate if you need.

Step 4.Start Spotify Music to MP3 Conversion

After setting the output format and converting speed,then click “Convert” button on the top of them main interface to start remove DRM and convert Spotify music to MP3 format.

Step 5.Find Out the Converted Spotify Music in MP3 Format

After conversion, you will easily find the downloaded Spotify music as MP3 file by clicking “History” button in the top right corner.

Now,please free download the Spotify Music Downloader & Converter to convert 3-minutes sample to evaluate the final outcome for each songs.

Except for Spotify Music Converter, you can also us a professional Spotify music recorder to record Spotify music as MP3 audio files, after getting the DRM free Spotify music in MP3 format, you can keep the recording Spotify music forever or transfer them to other devices for listening offline.

Method 2: How to Record Spotify Music as MP3

Screen Recorder is the best screen recording and audio recording software to capture any activity on Mac or Windows computer, you can use this screen recording tool to record any streaming music like Spotify Music, Apple Music, Youtube Music, Amazon Music Unlimited, etc. from system audio, so you can get exactly the original sound quality. What’s more, it is a good video game recorder, iTunes movies recorder software, Skype call capture, YouTube video recording tool, and more to capture computer screen, so you can easily record rental DRM-protected iTunes Video/Movies instead of removing drm from iTunes movies. Let’s shows you how to record Spotify music in MP3 format with 100% lossless quality.

Features of Screen Recorder:

Record Videos: Record videos, movies, TV shows, iTunes M4V files with full screen or customized size with high quality according to your needs.
Record Audios: Record streaming music on the computer and then save the recorded songs in MP3/WMA/AAC/M4A for easy playback or transfering.
Take Snapshots: Easily to take screenshot no matter one or more from tutorials, movies, TV shows and more.

Steps to Record Music from Spotify in MP3 Format

Step 1.Download, Install and Launch Screen Recorder on PC/Mac

Click the above “Download for Free” button to get the free trial of Screen Recorder for Windows or Screen Recorder for Mac, then install the recorder on your computer and launch it, you will see the there are three main features “Screen Recorder”, “Audio Recorer” and “Snapshot” in the simple interface.

To record music from Spotify, please click “Audio Recorder” function.

Step 2.Open System Audio and Close Microphone

To recording HD quality Spotify music, please open System Audio & close Microphone option to ensure you can capture the audio while playing music on Spotify.

Step 3.Select MP3 as Output Format

Click settings button and go to “General” > “Output” to select the recording output format, the program can hep you record Spotify music and other streaming music in MP3, WMA, M4A and ACC format.

Step 4.Set Hotkeys

Next to “General”, you can change the hotkeys to start/stop recording, pause/resume recording audio tracks in “Shortcuts”.

Step 5.Start to Record Spotify Music as MP3 Files

After setting the “output format”, “Location of Output Files” and “Hotkeys” above steps. You need to download Spotify in your computer. Install and launch it. Log in your account to play the music. If you only want to download free music from Spotify to computer, then you download the free version. If you want to download music from Spotify premium, then you need to pay for the fees and download the premium version and launch this app in your computer.

Then just click on “REC” button to start recording while playing music on Spotify app or Spotify web player.

Step 6.Preview and Save the Recorded Spotify Music

Click “Stop” button to preview and save the recorded Spotify music, you can preview the recording songs by click “Play” button. And if you are satisfied with the recording results, you can save the recorded music on your computer in MP3 files by clicking “ Save” button, if you don’t satisfied with the recording results, please click “Record again”.

Now, the recording Spotify songs saved onto the computer, you can find it on the recording library and rename the recorded songs you like.

Free download the Screen Recorder to rip/record/extract and download Spotify music as MP3s.

Both of the two methods would be convenient to download music from Spotify to computer with a free account. You can keep songs download from Spotify and Apple Music forever after canceling subscription.

If you want to record Spotify music and convert Spotify music to MP3/M4A/WAV/FLAC with fast conversion speed, we recommend you use the Spotify Music Converter & DRM Removal, which not only enables you remove Spotify DRM with Free or Premium subscription, but also record and convert Spotify music to DRM-free MP3 for offline playing.

Transfer Converted Spotify Music To Devices

After conversion, click below folder icon to quickly locate the Spotify song in DRM-free MP3 format. Then you keep Spotify music for free forever even cancel the premium member services,now you can use a Mobile Phone Manager to transfer the converted Spotify music to iPhone, iPod, iPad, Android phone for playing offline, or burn Spotify music to CD, transfer to MP3 players and play it anywhere.

Related Article

• How to Remove DRM from Spotify Music
• How to Download Music from Spotify without Premium
• How to Remove DRM from Apple Music
• How to Convert Apple Music to MP3
• How to Convert iTunes Music to MP3

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   Eric

   Posted in：2019-04-08 03:13

      

   With Spotify Music Converter, I can download and convert Spotify to MP3, WAV, WMA, M4A, AAC, FLAC etc so that I can play Spotify music anywhere and on any device.

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  Sarah Connor

  Posted in：2019-04-08 05:35

     

  Thank you for your approval. Our Spotify Music Converter software is still being upgraded.

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