How to Download Music from Spotify without Premium

By Sarah ConnorUpdated on December 04, 2020

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Summary:

This article helps Spotify users to download music or playlist from Spotify to MP3, M4A, WAV and FLAC for free without premium, so that they can offline listen to Spotify music on any devices.

How can I download Spotify songs for offline playback without premium?

It is well known that Spotify is one of the most widely used music-streaming applications, which not only allows you listen to music, but also gives you the ability to create your own music and create your own personalized playlists.

• Method 1: Download Spotify Music and Convert to DRM-free MP3
• Method 2: Record Spotify Music as MP3

There are two kinds of membership of Spotify, including Free and Premium plans. With a Premium subscription, songs and playlists can be downloaded easily. So you could take your favorite playlists everywhere you go. But the premise is that you need to create an account and signed up for Spotify’s premium $9.99 membership service. What’s worse, the downloaded Spotify Premium files are DRM encrypted and can only be played using the Spotify application. If you want to download DRM-free Spotify songs, then subscribing to Spotify Premium is useless. Although the Premium subscribers can download Spotify playlist for offline playback on 3 devices, the downloaded Spotify songs is in OGG Vorbis format which added with DRM-protected(Digital Right Management) and stop any illegal piracy activity. Some people may ask how to download songs from Spotify without premium? How to free download Spotify music as MP3s? The best way for keeping Spotify music forever is to removing the DRM protection or recording Spotify music in MP3 format first.

Method 1: Download Spotify Music and Convert to DRM-free MP3

To break up the DRM protection from Spotify music, you will need UkeySoft Spotify Music Converter to remove Spotify with Free or Premium subscription. It works perfectly on converting DRM-protected Spotify music to DRM-free formats, like MP3, AAC, WAV, FLAC. Moreover, MP3 is widely supported audio format, after converting, you can enjoy the songs, albums and playlists anywhere you want or burn the downloaded Spotify songs to CD, play them on MP3 player, etc. With the help of Spotify Music Converter, you can directly download any Spotify music, including songs, albums, artists, and playlists to computer with lossless quality and super fast speed.

Tutorial: How to Download Spotify Music without Premium

Step 1.Download the Spotify Music Converter

Currently this software only supports Mac version. Download the UkeySoft Spotify Music Converter on your Mac/Windows computer, install and launch it to start.

Step 2.Import Music from Spotify

Whether free or premium, you can drag and drop any music file or playlist from Spotify to the interface directly.

Step 3.Choose Output Format

The default output format is MP3. Here you also can choose other format as AAC, FLAC or WAV and adjust output quality up to 320 kbps. You are able to change output format or output folder if you need by clicking “Option” button.

Note: The program allows you change bitrate, samplerate according to your needs.

Step 3.Download Music from Spotify without Premium

After all settings done, tap the “Convert” button to start removing DRM and downloading Spotify music to plain format with ID3 tags kept after conversion.

After conversion, you can enjoy your downloaded Spotify music anywhere anytime without any limits.

Above is guide to remove DRM from Spotify music and convert to MP3 by using a professional Spotify music converter. Aside from using the Spotify music converter tool, you can use Spotify music Recorder to rip MP3 audio from Spotify.

Method 2: Record Spotify Music as MP3

Screen Recorder also is a Spotify music recorder tool, you can record Spotify music as MP3 audio files easily. The auido recorder function enables you to record Spotify tracks instead of downloading them, after recording and downloading Spotify songs to MP3/WMA/AAC/M4A, you can listen to all your Spotify music offline on any device without ads. What’ s more, screen recording tool not only enables you record online music, streaming music, system sound and microphone voice, but also helps users record YouTube videos, capture webcam calls, make teaching tutorials, save video gameplay on Windows and Mac. Let’s shows you the detail guide to record Spotify songs to MP3 while playing music on Spotify web player or Spotify App.

Steps to Rip Spotify Music as MP3

Step 1.Launch Screen Recorder on the Computer

We provide Screen Recorder for Windows and Screen Recorder for Mac, please download, install and run the screen recording software on your computer, you will get a simple interface.

Click “Audio Recorder” function to record songs.

Step 2.Turn on “System Audio”

If you want to record music from Spotify while playing, please turn on “System Audio” and turn off the “Microphone” option.

Step 3.Choose Recording Output Format – MP3

Then go to setting option and select MP3 as output format, the recording tool also helps you record Spotify music as other format, such as WMA, M4A and ACC.

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 Ripping Spotify Music as MP3

Now, ready to play song on Spotify web player or Spotify app, then just click on “REC” button to start to ripping.

Note: You will need to play Spotify music during the whole recording and you won’t be able to use your PC unless the recording is finished.

Step 6.Listening and Save the Recording Songs

Click “Stop” button while the entire playback process is complete, before saveing the recording songs, you can listen to them. And if you are satisfied with the recording results, you can save the recorded Spotify music by clicking “ Save” button, if you don’t satisfied with the recording results, please click “Record again”.

Free download the Screen Recorder to rip Spotify music as MP3s.

Method 2 teachs you how to record Spotify songs as MP3, but this method has some shortcomings. For example, you will need to play songs on Spotify app or Spotify web player during the whole recording and you won’t be able to use your computer unless the recording is finished. What’s worse, the screen recorder won’t help you split songs automatically and it cannot save the ID3 tags of the Spotify music. So, we recommend you using the Spotify Music Converter if you want to get DRM-free music from Spotify.

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   brosongd

   Posted in：2019-04-02 10:03

      

   I have a free Spotify account and this Spotify downloader helps me download and convert the Spotify music as MP3 for free! It lets you drag and convert a random song you’ve never seen before, just register a Spotify Free account, then copy and paste the song links to the program, you can save time to download songs from Spotify as MP3. I love it so much!! “

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   hiahihia

   Posted in：2019-04-03 05:43

      

   Very easy to install and operate, so I shared it with my friends. Now I could enjoy my Spotify musuc freely!

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