7 Free Ways to Download Spotify to MP3 in 2020

With more than 40 million songs, Spotify offers a massive music library that you can listen to online without taking your storage space. If you pay the premium subscription fee, you can also listen to music offline.

The only problem is that you can’t transfer them anywhere or play them with other music players other than Spotify because the music files you downloaded with Spotify are DRM(Digital Rights Management) protected. In this article, I will show you 7 ways to download songs from Spotify as MP3 without recording even if you don’t have Spotify Premium. No matter what devices you use, you can find at least 2 methods that work for you.

This list contains the top 100 songs with the most streams on the audio streaming platform Spotify.As of September 2020, all of the top 100 songs have exceeded 1 billion streams, of which two have reached 2 billion streams, with Ed Sheeran's 'Shape of You' ranked in the top position. Prior to February 2014, Spotify's most-streamed song was 'Radioactive' by Imagine Dragons; it was overtaken.

Disclaimer

All these methods are for personal or educational use only.

You should not use any of these tools to pirate or distribute music.

Some of the methods may be illegal to use this in your country, so be informed.

Method 1: Download Spotify song or playlist with Siri Shortcuts

If you are using an iOS device, you probably have heard of the automation application Shortcuts, which is the updated version of Workflow. I have three shortcuts to help you download music from Spotify.

If you are not familiar with Shortcuts, you can free download it from AppStore and get a few pre-made shortcuts in the Shortcuts Gallery to see how it work. To get the shortcuts that I am about to show you, you just open the link in Safari to download it.

This Spotify playlist downloader can only download an entire Spotify playlist. You will have an option to select some of the tracks in the playlist to download if you don’t want to download them all.

Note: This only works for playlist. It won’t work if you input a Spotify track link. It is recommended to run it from Spotify share sheet.

You can simply copy the Spotify playlist link from Spotify app and run this shortcut. You can also tap the Share button to run this shortcut from the share sheet. Besides the playlist link, you can also input playlist ID Or playlist URI to download Spotify playlist to MP3.

When downloaded, you can open the Files app, and then select iCloud > Shortcuts > Music to check the downloaded MP3 file. If you are not familiar with iOS Shortcuts, be sure to watch this video below to see how it works.

For advanced users, you can also use Shortcuts to Move Spotify Playlist to Apple Music and vise versa. Though the authentication process is a little complicated when you want to transfer playlists to Spotify by using Spotify API.

Method 2: Download Spotify to MP3 Using Telegram Bot

If you use Telegram, you can simply use a Telegram bot to download free music whether you are on Android or iOS. It does not require any setup or your Spotify account login info. All you need is this @SpotifyMusicDownloaderBot. After you get this bot, type “/start” (without quotes) and then you can paste any Spotify track link to start downloading music for free. If you are using iOS, you may want to tap the Share button and save to Files after the music is downloaded.

If you do like using Telegram bots to download music, you probably also want to check this post to get more Telegram Bots for music.

Method 3: Download Spotify Playlist to FLAC or MP3

My Top Spotify Tracks

There is another open-source software called Deezloader, which is developed to download music from Deezer, can also be used to download a playlist from Spotify. The software actually converts the Spotify playlist to Deezer playlist and then download music from Deezer. You can set it to download Spotify Playlist as MP3 or FLAC. The lastest version Deezloader Remix 4.2.2 also allows you to download any single Spotify track and it much easier to set up.

Step 1. Download and install Deezer Remix. Log in with your Deezer account (free account also works).

Step 2. Go to this link: https://developer.spotify.com/dashboard/applications and log in with your Spotify account (free account works).

Step 3. Click on Create a Client ID and then compile the form as you like.

Step 4. Save the settings and then you will see the Client ID and Client Secret. Copy the Client ID and Client Secret to Deezloader Remix.

If you are using an older version of Deezloader Remix, the setup is a little bit complicated than this. You can refer to this video to see the configure process.

As you know, not all tracks on Spotify are also available on Deezer, so you will see some tracks are failed to download because Deezloader cannot find the matched songs. If you want a tool to download all tracks from Spotify playlist, keep reading to see the next tool.

Update: Since Deezloader is discontinued, you can only use this method to download 128kbps MP3. If you prefer high quality, jump to Method 5.

Method 4: Download Spotify to MP3 with AllToMP3

AllToMP3 is free open source software that allows you to download music from Spotify, YouTube, SoundCloud, and Deezer. It is available in Windows, macOS, and Linux. If you check the source code, it is easy to find out that it actually matches the Spotify music track with YouTube video and convert YouTube video to MP3, so the music quality is not as good the other methods. You can free download from its website or Github.

After installation, you can paste the Spotify song link or playlist link and press Enter to start downloading. The music, by default, will be saved in the Music folder. The downloaded music files include all the tags and cover art, but the quality is nowhere close to the next free tool.

Method 5: Download Spotify Music Using Allavsoft

Allavsoft is your ultimate media downloader software for Windows and Mac. It allows you to directly download Spotify playlist, album music to MP3, FLAC, WAV, M4A, WMA, etc with ID3 tags.

The latest version allows you to download Spotify music as FLAC (1441 kbps). Unlike Deezloader, you download all the songs that Deezloader cannot download, literally, unmatched songs with Allavsoft. For me, Allavsoft is the best Spotify Music Downloader.

Once you get it installed, you can copy the Spotify music link whether it is a song, album, or playlist and then launch Allavsoft. The program will automatically paste the URL and you just need to click Download to start downloading.

By default, it saves Spotify music to MP3 as 320 kbps with artwork and other metadata, so you don’t need to check the option “Automatically Convert to”. If you choose the Best Available quality, you may find some songs are downloaded as FLAC 1411 kbps, which is really cool. If you want to convert Spotify Music to FLAC, WAV, AIFF, AAC, WMA, DTS, etc, you can click the “Automatically Convert to” button to select the specific format from the drop-down menu.

Besides Spotify, Allavsoft allows you to download music from Deezer, SoundCloud, MixCloud, and download videos from Udemy, Lyda, YouTube, Facebook, etc. That is to say, Allavsoft is the only downloader software that you ever need.

Method 6: Convert Spotify music to MP3 with TuneMobie

There are many programs that claim to be able to convert Spotify, but deep down they are recording the audio, TuneMobie is one of them. I tried both free and paid versions. Let me tell you how it really works.

When you open this program TuneMobie, it asks you to launch the Spotify app or download it if you haven’t. Then you can see in the preference where you can select to save as mp3, m4a, WAV, and FLAC. These are all the supported audio formats and other settings that you customize.

When you try to convert a song, the Spotify app actually plays the song, but you hear no sound. Compared to other audio-recording kinds of competitors, Tunemobie Spotify Converter is 5 times faster. Usually, it takes less than 1 minute to convert a song.

You can also copy a playlist link to download Spotify playlist as MP3 or other formats. The trial version allows you to download (record) unlimited tracks for the first 3 munites in 30 days, which is much better than its competitors.

Method 7: Download Spotify with a Chrome extension

If you use Chrome web browser, you can install this free extension and then you can see a download button appears when you go to Spotify web player. You now can click on the download button to download almost all the songs from Spotify web player.
Why do I say almost? Because this extension certainly is not downloading music from Spotify directly. You just download music from its own server, so you will see some Spotify tracks are not available in their server for downloading. Some tracks downloaded using this extension may not be the same version as the Spotify version.

Bonus: Chimera — Multiple Source Music Downloader for Advanced Users Only

Chimera is a command-line based multiple source music downloader that allows you to download music from Spotify, Deezer, Tidal, Soundcloud, Napster, Qobuz, Google Play Music, etc.

It is open-source and completely free to use for educational and private use only. It is very powerful, but the setup process is more complicated than the other methods. You can choose Spotify source from Deezer, Tidal, or Qobuz.

As you know, Tidal and Qobuz provide Hi-res quality music. If you have paid subscription, you can use this tool to download Spotify music in very high quality in FLAC format.

You will need to grant your Spotify account through Spotify client ID and client secret. Based on your choice, you need to also set up Deezer, Tidal, or Qobuz account. For detailed steps, check this guide to see how to set it up.

Conclusion

That’s all the seven different methods for downloading Spotify music to MP3. If you care about music quality, then Allavsoft is the best choice. Personally, I like the Allavsoft method the most because it is convenient, high quality, and with cover art. More importantly, you don’t need any other video/music downloader software anymore once you have Allavsoft installed since it supports more than 1000 websites.

If you really love the iOS environment, then Shortcuts is a great way to download music on iPhone. Now, it is your turn. Which method are you going to try first? If you have other better method to download music from Spotify, please share it in the comments.

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Spotify is a popular music streaming service with more that 70 million paying subscribers. It also offers free subscription, but free subscribers will encounter ads while listen to the music, also they can't download songs for offline listening. Although paid subscribers are allowed to download the songs they like, this service is limited to 3 devices for each account and at most 3,333 songs per device. So many people wonder is there any way to download Spotify music more freely, e.g. both Spotify free and premium users can download as many songs as they like on unlimited devices. Here we will introduce you 5 popular Spotify music downloader that allows you download spotify music without Premium.

1. Spotify™ & Deezer™ Music Downloader

Spotify™ & Deezer™ Music Downloader is a Google Chrome extension that allows you to download whole playlists and single tracks from Spotify and Deezer Webplayer. You can download music from the Spotify Web player directly, extension adds a download button to web player interface. It's very easy to download Spotify music if you have Google Chrome browser installed and internet connection. This Spotify Music Saver searches and download Spotify music files from multiple mp3 libraries, however, due to the missing of a certain amount of tracks in the libraries, some Spotify tracks won't be downloaded. Besides, you have to download each songs one by one. Some songs may not be in 320 kbps, but it is free for use.

Similar tools include Spotify Music Downloader, which is also a Chrome extension. However there are also risks since it can read and change all your data on the website you visit and manage you downloads. Don't add it if you mind this.

2. Ondesoft Spotify Converter

Ondesoft Spotify Music Converter is a professional Spotify music downloader app for Mac and Windows designed for you to easily download any songs, albums and playlists from Spotify. It allows you to easily drag&drop Spotify songs, albums and playlists to the interface and then one-click to download. The downloading process is fast and will preserve all ID3 tags. You can download Spotify music to 4 formats with up to 320kbps: MP3, M4A, WAV and FLAC, all with 100% original quality. Different from Spotify Deezer Music Downloader, Ondesoft Spotify Converter allows you to download as many songs as you like at a time. It costs $ 39.95 for lifetime license.

3. AllToMP3

AllToMP3 is a desktop application for Mac, Windows and Linux that allows you to download songs from YouTube, SoundCloud, Spotify and Deezer. Similar to Spotify Deezer Music Downloader, it also download songs from online mp3 libraries not the Spotify library. So you may get wrong results or some songs can't be downloaded. You can download one song or one playlist at a time. Also some ID3 tags may be lost after downloading.

4. iMusic

iMusic is an all-in-one music downloader to discover, record and download music, transfer music between iPhone/iPad/iPod/Android phones and iTunes/Mac/PC, and clean up music collection. iMusic is able 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 songs, same to Spotify Deezer Music Downloader and AllToMP3, it also downloads songs from online mp3 libraries, not the actual Spotify library.

5. Spotify Downloader for Android

The above 4 Spotify music downloaders are for Mac and Windows, while this one is for Android. Spotify Downloader is an app that allows you to download tracks in playlists from any Spotify user account. 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, all you need is the user account name. To install on your Android, visit www.getjar.com on your mobile device, select Quick Download at the bottom of the page and then enter 924986.

The common point of the 5 Spotify music downloaders is that they are all very easy to use. The difference is that they download Spotify music from different libraries. Try Ondesoft Spotify Converter if you want to download Spotify music with original quality and without missing songs.

Video Tutorial: Download Spotify music with Ondesoft Spotify Music Converter

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