The famous music streaming service Spotify gives you easy access to million of songs online, but there are also some limitations. For example, free users will be interrupted by ads and can't download Spotify music for offline listening. Premium users can only download Spotify music on 3 devices (at most 3,333 songs per device). Also the downloaded playlists are DRM protected and can only be played with Spotify app. You can't move them anywhere or play them with other music player or devices.
Well, the best solution to remove above limitations is to find a Spotify downloader tool to download Spotify music as mp3 with either free or premium account. Here are many tools claim that they can download Spotify playlists, but not all of them work as advertised.
Login to your respective iTunes account as well as your Spotify account. Check an important tip while logging in to your iTunes account here. Once you are logged in, your pre-stored music playlist (s) would appear in the iTunes section. Select the music playlist (s). In February 2018, Spotify removed the ability to add iTunes playlists to Spotify. Here's a better alternative to using UkeySoft Apple Music Converter to directly remove DRM from iTunes songs or iTunes playlists and convert to MP3 / AAC / WAV / FLAC, so that iTunes music files can be scanned to Spotify for streaming. Convert iTunes Playlists to MP3. Spotify is available to upload MP3 files, yet iTunes songs are in M4A or M4P format. Please follow the below steps to convert iTunes files to MP3 for adding to Spotify. Note: This way works for unprotected M4A iTunes playlists. For Apple Music M4P songs and iTunes M4P music, you need to skip to the way in Part 2.
Ondesoft Spotify Downloader is the most professional Spotify music downloader for both Mac&Windows users to download Spotify songs, albums and playlists to mp3, m4a, wav and flac. Ondesoft Spotify Music Converter downloads Spotify music by recording the songs from spotify app and save them in mp3, m4a, wav or flac. It can preserve 100% original quality and all ID3 tags of the recorded songs. All you need to do is drag&drop the songs you want to download and then click 'Convert'. Batch conversion is supported and you can drag as many songs, albums and playlists you like to below interface and download them simultaneously. Ondesoft Spotify Converter also allows you to uncheck the songs you don't want to download from any playlist. Other Spotify playlist downloader only supports downloading the whole playlist. Tutorial: How to download Spotify playlists with Ondesoft Spotify Converter? Price : Lifetime license $39.95
Pros: Fast and easy-to-use. Download as many songs&playlists as you like simultaneously. Preserve original ID3 tags. 100% original quality, up to 320kbps. Cons: Spotify will be used during downloading.
iMusic
iMusic from Aimersoft is an all-in-one streaming music downloader to discover, record and download music. It allows you 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 music, it searches the songs from YouTube and then downloads them. Free mind map mac download. You need to be access to YouTube on your computer. Price : Lifetime license $59.95
Pros: Easy to use. ID3 tags preserved. Cons: Doesn't support drag&drop. Download Spotify music from online libraries. Can't download some albums and playlists.
AllToMP3
AllToMP3 is a desktop application to download and convert YouTube, SoundCloud, Spotify and Deezer in 256 kb/s MP3, with ID3 tags: cover, title, artist. Compared to the above two Spotify downloader, it is more user-friendly and effortless. Just copy&paste the link of the Spotify song, album or playlist to the top area, click Enter on your keyboard and the downloading begins. After downlading, flind the mp3 songs in the output folder. Same as iMusic, AllToMP3 downloads Spotify music from YouTube, so make sure you can access to YouTube on that computer. If the songs are not included in YouTube, it won't be downloaded. Price : Free
Pros: free Keep ID3 tags. Cons : Download only the first 100 songs in a playlist. Downloads songs from the YouTube. May download wrong songs. Spotify premium purchase in app.
Apowersoft Audio Recorder
Apowersoft Audio Recorder allows you to record streaming music from music sites, video playforms, radio stations or capture sound from audio chats effortlessly. Is can be used as a Spotify downloader to download any Spotify songs, albums and playlists by recording them in MP3, WMA, AAC, M4A, WAV, M4R and AC3. Auto tune your voice web. It will recognize ID3 tags of the recorded Spotify music, but you can also edit the tags afterwards. Price : Lifetime license $79.95
Pros: Can record audio segments. Cons: Have to manually play and stop Spotify music. Windows version can't recognize individual songs. Can't customize output song quality.
Wondershare Streaming Audio Recorder
Wondershare Streaming Audio Recorder is a real-time digital audio recorder that records any audio source that’s automatically detected on your computer. You can use it to record Spotify songs in MP3 or M4A format. As it records sound from soundcard not Spotify app, make sure no other sound is played during the recording, or it will be recorded together. Price : Lifetime license $19 for Windows and $29 for Mac
Pros: Remove ads. Recognize ID3 tags automatically. Cons: Have to manually play and stop Spotify music. Output format only mp3 and m4a. Only record at up to 256kbps.
Spotify downloader that we don't recommend
Below results often appear when you google Spotify playlist downloader, but we don't recommend them for below reasons.
1 GitHub - ritiek/spotify-downloader
Spotify-Downloader downloads songs from YouTube in an MP3 format by using Spotify's HTTP link. It's not an app or a website with user-friendly interface. You need to be a technical professional and know how to code to use it.
2. Spotify Downloader for Android
There is an Android app called Spotify Downloader, which allows you to download Spotify songs on Android devices for free. You can download the apk from Aptoide or GetJar. 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. Seems pretty easy, hah? But the user ratings for this Spotify Downloader is only 3.21. Many users complain that it often says there is a problem with internet connection and couldn't download anything. Besides, it downloads songs from YouTube, not Spotify. Sometimes it doesn't download the entire song, sometimes only a minute and a half of it.
3. www.playlist-converter.net/
Actually it's not a Spotify playlist downloader at all. It only allows you to convert your Spotify playlists to free text, Deezer, SoundCloud, CSV and link.
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iTunes and Spotify are two most popular music apps used by both Mac and Windows users. iTunes is a tool for you to organize and enjoy the music, movies, and TV shows you already have and shop for the ones you want. You can also use iTunes to access Apple Music, where you can stream 45 million ad-free songs with a $9.99/per month subscription. It also provides a three-month free trial. Spotify is a streaming music service which can be accessed for free or paid. Many people ask is it possible to import Spotify playlists to iTunes library and use iTunes to organize and play the Spotify songs you downloaded?
Download Itunes Playlists To Spotify Music Converter
Actually, Spotify can import your local files and playlist from iTunes, but you can't export any content from the Spotify catalogue or offline playlists back into iTunes or onto an mp3 player or anything. However, you can use third-party software to remove Spotify DRM and convert Spotify songs/playlists to mp3, then you can transfer the Spotify songs to iTunes just like ordinary music files.
Here, we show you how to import your Spotify songs and playlists into iTunes. If you want to transfer Spotify songs to iTunes library, there are 2 steps: 1. Remove Spotify DRM and convert Spotify music to mp3. 2. Move the Spotify mp3 songs to iTunes Library. In iTunes, click File > Add to Library, locate a file or folder, and click Open.
Part 1 Remove Spotify DRM and convert Spotify songs to mp3
For step 1, you will need a professional Spotify to mp3 converter – Boilsoft Spotify Music Converter, which allows you to easily remove Spotify DRM and convert Spotify songs to plain audios such as mp3. Related: If you want to transfer Spotify playlists to Google Play Music, check this tutorial. Firstly, run Boilsoft Spotify Music Converter Download, install and run Boilsoft Spotify Music Converter on your Mac or Windows. We will take Mac version as example. The interface is shown as below: Secondly, add Spotify songs, albums, playlists or artists You can now drag&drop the playlists you want to convert to mp3 to the interface directly from Spotify App. If you are using Spotify web player, click Add Files icon and copy&paste the link of the playlist to the bottom input area. Boilsoft Spotify Music Converter will automatically load all songs contained in the playlist. Click Add and you will see all songs on the interface. Thirdly, start to convert Spotify playlists to MP3 Click Convert icon to start converting Spotify playlists to MP3. After conversion, you will get the drm-free MP3 music with 100% original quality and ID3 tags. Now you can transfer them to your iTunes library. Note: The default format is MP3. If you want to change output format(M4A, WAV or FLAC), click Option button. You can also set music quality by changing bitrate and samplerate.
Part 2 Sync DRM-free Spotify playlists to iTunes
Add the DRM free Spotify songs from your computer to your iTunes library Do either of the following: ▪ Drag a song or folder from the desktop to the iTunes window. If you add a folder, all the songs it contains are added to your library. ▪ In iTunes, choose File > Add to Library or Add Folder to Library, locate a file or folder, then click Open. By default, adding items to your iTunes library creates a reference to the file’s current location; the original file remains in the current location unless you select “Copy files to the iTunes Media folder when adding to library.” For information about copying files to the iTunes folder instead of creating references to them, see Change where your iTunes files are stored.