Spotify is great as long as you don’t hit a bump with some sync problem. Oh, there’s the issue of your premium account not getting activated (or recognized in mobile), but that’s often just a server glitch.

The features include: Converting Spotify playlists to MP3 files and maintain the output music as same as the original quality (lossless.wav files); Automatically get the song’s tags such as artist, album, and title (accuracy rate is near 100%). It can not only download songs from Spotify to your local PC/Mac, but also convert your common audio files to MP3/M4A/FLAC/WAV/OGG, burn Spotify songs to CD, Upload & Share Spotify songs to OneDrive/Google Drive and edit tags.

If local files from your Mac or PC don’t get synced with Spotify and instead, Spotify shows you ‘similar’ tracks that you can download instead, that’s going to be one big headache. This usually happens when you have music tracks with metadata that’s way too similar to the ones Spotify has on its server.

Why does this happen? The issue crops up mostly when you’ve got fan-versions of a popular song, or remixes and other modifications that leave pretty much of the metadata intact. This makes Spotify think that you’re trying to upload a song that’s already up there and so, it prevents sync and offers to let you grab the cloud versions.

Too bad, eh. But there’s a quick fix.

This is what you should try if Spotify not syncing Local Files to iPhone:

(make sure you use the same account on Spotify for your Mac/PC as well as for your iPhone)

Step 1. First, connect both your PC/Mac and your iPhone to the same Wi-Fi network.

Step 2. Now, open iTunes on your PC/Mac and you should find your iDevice listed under the Devices tab on the sidebar.

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Step 3. Create a new playlist from your system (on the device) and place one of the local files into this.

Step 4. Open Spotify on your iPhone and then select the newly created playlist.

Step 5. Enable “Available Offline.”

Step 6. You’ll now see a progress icon right beneath the song you’ve got on the playlist. This will get the song from the cloud to your Spotify app.

Step 7. That’s about it.

When you add more songs to this playlist, they get synced. Make sure you don’t turn off the offline sync feature.

Note that there’s a limit to the number of offline songs you can have on your device (each).

That’s all folks!

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“I’m a Spotify premium user. I’ve downloaded some of my favorite songs from Spotify to my computer for offline listening. I’d like to transfer them to my smartphone, but I can’t find them on my local drive. What’s going on?”

Spotify is one of the most popular music streaming services in the world. You can sign it up as a free member or upgrade to be a premium subscriber, which costs $9.99 per month. Besides, it offers Spotify Family Plan (up to 6 premium accounts) at $14.99/month.

No matter you are a Spotify free user or a paid subscriber, you can access its vast music library with over 50 million songs. With the Spotify app installed, you can listen to Spotify music everywhere with a good network connection. Besides, if you are a premium user, you can download music from Spotify for offline streaming.

However, it doesn’t mean that you own the music. When you download a song from Spotify, it’s not downloaded to your local drive, instead, it's saved as some kind of unknown file that can’t be opened without the Spotify app or transferred to other devices for offline listening.

To save Spotify songs to your local computer, you have to turn to Sidify Music Converter, a simple and useful tool to help you download music from Spotify as MP3/AAC/WAV/FLAC files with three simple steps. In other words, by Sidify Music Converter, you can back up your Spotify songs or transfer Spotify songs to USB & other devices for offline listening.

Contents

• Tool Required – Sidify Music Converter
• Tutorial: How to Download Music from Spotify to Computer by Sidify

Tool Required – Sidify Music Converter

Sidify Music Converter is the most popular tool for saving Spotify music to computer. On one hand, it enables Spotify free & premium users to download Spotify songs, albums, and playlists to MP3/AAC/WAV/FLAC at fast speed, keeping original audio quality and ID3 tags. On the other hand, it offers free updates and technical support.

Key Features of Sidify Music Converter

Sidify Music Converter

• Save Spotify songs to computer as MP3/AAC/WAV/FLAC files
• Preserve the quality of the original sound
• Keep ID3 Tags and all metadata
• Highly compatible with the latest Windows & macOS and Spotify
• Free updates and technical support

Important Notes:

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• Sidify works with the Spotify app. Before you move to the step-by-step tutorial, please make sure you’ve had both Sidify and Spotify well installed on your computer.
• Please do not open the Spotify app manually. Once Sidify is launched, Spotify would be opened automatically.

Tutorial: How to Download Music from Spotify to Computer by Sidify

Currently, Sidify Music Converter offers Windows and Mac versions. Here we take the Windows version as an example to show you how to download music from Spotify to your PC. If you’d like to save Spotify song to your MacBook or iMac, please refer to How to Download Spotify Songs to Mac.

Step 1Add Spotify Songs to Sidify

Click on the 'Add' icon and then drag and drop a music file or playlist from Spotify to Sidify. You can also copy & paste the link of the Spotify song/playlist to the clipboard.

Step 2Choose Output Format and Customize Output Path

Click the 'Settings' button on the upper-right corner, in which you can choose output format (MP3/AAC/WAV/FLAC), customize output path and how you'd like to sort out the downloaded files.

Step 3Save Spotify Songs to Computer

Click on the 'Convert' button to start exporting and downloading the Spotify songs to your computer.

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Once the conversion is completed, you can click on the'Converted' tab on the left panel to find the well-downloaded Spotify songs on your local drive.