Part 1. How to Run Spotify on Garmin Forerunner 645 Music with Premium

Garmin Vivoactive 3 - This is the device Spotify has added the support recently. It is at a relatively low price compared to other models. What You Need to Add Spotify to Your Garmin Watch. Spotify Premium subscription. A compatible Garmin device such as Fenix 5 Plus, Forerunner 645, Vivoactive 3 with more than 50% charge.

Although Forerunner 645 Music is the latest Garmin watch, to our surprise, Fenix 5 Plus is the first device from Garmin to fully support Spotify app. Fortunately, a few days later, Garmin adds Spotify into its latest music device as the built-in music player and allows users to download playlists from Spotify music streaming services and listen to them on Forerunner 645 Music without smartphone nearby.

Before get started to run Spotify app on your Garmin Forerunner 645 Music, it's important to note that Spotify on Garmin requires a Spotify Premium account. As consequence, please make sure you have upgraded to Premium subscription.

Install Spotify App on Garmin Forerunner 645 Music

Step 1. Please download and install Garmin Connect IQ app on your mobile and connect it with your Garmin watch.

Step 2. Launch it on your phone and search for Spotify app on the search box. Once found out, please hit on 'Download' button.

Step 3. Turn up to your Garmin 645 Forerunner Music and select 'My Music' > 'Spotify' option and then a message will pop up to ask you to check the Connect IQ app.

Step 4. Now, you just need to log in the detailed account of Spotify Premium an connect your accounts. To confirm it, please simply touch 'OKAY'.

Download Spotify Playlists on Garmin Watch

Step 1. Launch Spotify app on your watch and enter to the 'Your Library' and select 'Add music & podcasts' option.

Step 2. You can start to discover favorite songs, podcasts on Spotify that you'd like to download.

Step 3. Just hit on the 'Add' button, Spotify tracks will be downloaded automatically. To listen to Spotify songs offline, please pair your watch with the Bluetooth headphones.

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One of the key features of Spotify Premium is the ability to download albums and playlists for offline listening. Downloading tracks for offline play is essential for travel without WiFi to listen to your music, especially if you’re going on a long flight or road trip. Since, nowadays, most people prefer listening to music in smartphones or on car stereo when driving, it is also necessary to save Spotify music to an SD card to save room on your device.

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Issue: Spotify Music-Download Restrictions

Spotify offers both an ad-supported free version and a premium subscription (US$9.99 monthly) with unlimited streaming of its 30 million-plus songs. However, audiences on Spotify Free accounts will run into trouble if they’re not connected to the Internet. They can’t download/save songs to local computer or play it on their music player, not to mention saving Spotify music to an SD card. With Spotify Premium, although Spotify allows you to sync songs to a recognized SD card, for some reasons it downloads to the Internal Storage instead of external SD card.

How to stop the above annoying things in order to save Spotify music to external SD card for listening to music in smartphones or on your car stereo? You're lucky here. In the following guide, we will share you with an efficient way to download and save Spotify music into external SD card whether you are Spotify paid or free user.

Part 1: Download Spotify Song/ Playlist as MP3

Part 2: Transfer Spotify Music from Computer to SD Card

Part 1:Download Spotify Song/ Playlist as MP3

Sidify Music Converter ( For Windows | For Mac ) is the best Spotify Music Downloader to download music or playlist from Spotify to plain MP3, AAC, FLAC or WAV format with great quality. It is specifically designed for music lovers. You can easily drag & drop a Spotify music or playlist from Spotify to Sidify for importing and downloading. Besides, Sidify Music Converter can preserve Artwork and all metadata (including title, artist, album and track number ) after conversion.

Things You'll Need

• A Computer running Mac OS or Windows OS;
• Spotify Client is well-installed;
• An external SD card;
• Download & Install the latest version of Sidify Music Converter.

In the following guide, we would convert Spotify music to plain MP3 format with the Windows version of Sidify Music Converter as an example.

Step 1Import Music from Spotify to Sidify

Launch the Sidify program and Spotify will be opened automatically. Then click on ' icon for importing Spotify music.

Step 2Drag & drop a song link or Playlist link from Spotify to Sidify Music Converter.

Step 3Once added the music successfully, you can click setting button to change the basic parameters (Including Output format, Output quality and Conversion Mode, etc). Here you can choose format as MP3, AAC, FLAC or WAV and adjust output quality up to 320 kbps.

Step 4 Click 'Convert' button to download Spotify music to plain format without loss of any quality.

Step 5 After conversion, you can click on 'Converted' button to easily find the downloaded MP3/AAC/FLAC/WAV file in the top right corner.

Part 2: Transfer Spotify Music from Computer to SD Card

Now, all of Spotify music are downloaded into a plain format file and you can transfer your favorite Spotify music into a SD card.

Step 1Insert the SD card into your computer's card reader.

Step 2Open 'Computer/My Computer/This PC' on Windows computer.

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Step 3Double-click on your SD card in the list of drives.

Step 4Drag and drop Spotify music files into and out of the SD card.

Step 5Now, you can listen to Spotify music on any smartphone and car players via SD card.

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Note : The trial version of Sidify Music Converter enables us to convert 3-minute for each audio file, you can unlock the time limitation by purchasing the full version.