Learn how to download & save Spotify music as MP3 files in 5 simple steps.
Spotify is a well-known music streaming service competing with Apple Music, Amazon Music, Tidal, etc. It’s a freemium service offering over 100 million tracks. With a Spotify Free account, you can listen to ad-supported Spotify songs online for free. If you upgrade to a Premium account, you can ad-free Spotify music online, download music from Spotify for offline listening, enjoy Spotify in higher audio quality, etc.
Nevertheless, no matter you are a Spotify Premium subscriber or a Spotify Free user, you are not allowed to directly save Spotify music as MP3 files. When you download songs from Spotify to your computer, they are saved as cache files limited to be played within the Spotify app. If you need to download music from Spotify to MP3, it's a must to turn to a third-party tool.
There are all kinds of music tools available on the market. Here we are going to introduce a simple and effective one – AudiFab Spotify Music Converter, by which you can download and save Spotify songs as MP3 files within 5 steps:
AudiFab Spotify Music Converter is compatible with Windows 7, 8, 10, 11 and macOS 10.15 - 15 Sequoia. It’s a professional tool used to convert Spotify music to MP3/AAC/WAV/FLAC/AIFF/ALAC. Besides, you can use it to convert your local audio files to MP3/M4A/FLAC/WAV/OGG/AIFF, burn music to CD, edit ID3 tags and export music to iTunes, etc.
It keeps original audio quality and ID3 tags after conversion. Plus, you can choose how you’d like to name and sort out the converted files. If you have a large Spotify playlist to convert, you can also select "Put System to Sleep" when the conversion is completed within the app.
Next, we are going to show you how to use AudiFab Spotify Music Converter to download Spotify music as MP3 files step by step.
Open AudiFab Spotify Music Converter.
Open AudiFab Spotify Music Converter and choose the mode to record music from Spotify App or Spotify Webplayer. For Win users, we suggest Spotify App fot 10x speed and high quality conversion. For Mac users, we suggest Spotify webplayer for 10x speed conversion.
Platform | Win | Mac |
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Spotify App | Up to 10x speed with best audio quality | 1x speed with best quality |
Spotify Webplayer | at 10x speed conversion |
Here we choose using Spotify App on Win for an example.
After choosing Spotify App, AudiFab interface and Spotify app will show up.
Note: To switch modes, click the icon on the upper-left of AudiFab interface.
Import music from the Spotify app to AudiFab.
Drag and drop a song or a playlist from the Spotify app to AudiFab. AudiFab Spotify Music Converter would read them automatically. Check the Spotify songs that you’d like to convert to MP3 and then click the Add button.
Choose MP3 as the output format.
Click the Settings icon in the bottom left corner, select MP3 as the output format and specify the output folder. Next, just switch to Home window to apply the changed settings.
Click the Convert button and AudiFab would immediately start exporting the Spotify music as MP3 files to your local computer.
Find the MP3 downloads on the local drive.
Once the conversion is done, go to the output folder set in Step 3 and you can find all the MP3 downloads on your local drive.
Tips: You can also click the Converted tab to locate the MP3 downloads.
Spotify is a popular music streaming service, and you cannot directly save Spotify songs as MP3 files, but you can easily download and convert Spotify songs to MP3 format by AudiFab Spotify Music Converter.
Open AudiFab Spotify Music Converter, drag & drop music from the Spotify app to AudiFab, choose MP3 as the output format and then click the Convert button to start the conversion.
AudiFab Spotify Music Converter is free to try. It can be downloaded for free and converts the first minute of each audio file for sample testing. If the program meets your need, you can buy a license to unlock the time limit.
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