Spotify is the one of the most popular music streaming service in the world with millions of playlists created by Spotify, by artists and other listeners worldwide. Premium users can download playlists to supported device and listen to them anywhere, even without Wi-Fi or data signal.
However, downloaded Spotify playlists are DRM protected and can only be played within Spotify app. To play Spotify playlists more freely, the best option is to download Spotify playlists to MP3. Here we will shows you 3 tools for you to download Spotify playlists to MP3 on Mac, Windows, Android and iOS.
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The downloaded Spotify songs are DRM protected and you can only play them within Spotify app on that device, you can't transfer them anywhere. Spotify free users can't save songs to their devices for offline playback. If you want to enjoy Spotify playlist on any device you want, such as MP3 player, the best way is to download Spotify playlist to MP3. Pazu Spotify Downloader is specially designed to download any Spotify playlists, albums and songs to MP3 in 100% lossless 320kbps.
In this guide, we’ll go through the process of downloading mp3 songs from Spotify playlist.
Download, install and run Pazu Spotify to MP3 Downloader on your Mac or Windows. Log in your Spotify account with the built-in Spotify web player. The steps are the same whether you have the Mac or Windows version of Pazu Spotify Converter. Here we will take Mac version as example.
Click the gear icon on the top right corner. Here you can select output format (AUTO(M4A)/MP3/AAC/FLAC/WAV/AIFF), choose output audio quality, customize the output path, organize the output files in various ways, rename output files and more.
Use the integrated Spotify web player to browse or search the playlist you want to download. Click the Add to list button to load all songs in the playlist, uncheck the songs you don’t want to download if there are any.
Click Convert button to start downloading the Spotify playlist to MP3 and save to your computer drive.
Once the conversion is done, you can find your Spotify playlist downloaded as local files by clicking below folder button or directly going to the output folder you customized in the previous step.
Note: The free trial version of Pazu Spotify Converter enables you to convert the first three minutes of each song. You can remove the trial limitation by purchasing the full version.
Buy Now Buy NowThere are a few free online Spotify to MP3 Downloader tools that claims to allow you to download Spotify playlist to MP3, however, after our test, they only list the songs in the playlist and you need to download songs one by one. The only free online tool that allows you to download Spotify playlist to MP3 in a zip is spotify-downloader.com. However, as it actually matches and downloads Spotify playlist from YouTube, you can only get mp3 songs in 128 kbps. Besides, you may get wrong songs or nothing if the songs are not matched.
Spotify-downloader.com is a free online Spotify to MP3 converter tool that allows you to download Spotify songs, albums and playlists to MP3 without installing software. Different from other online Spotify to MP3 converter, it allows you to download all songs in a playlist to a zip file. However, you need to open Spotify web player or app to copy&paste Spotify playlist url, which is not convenient as Pazu Spotify Converter with built-in Spotify web player.
Another drawback is that it can only download Spotify to 128kbps mp3.
How to download Spotify playlist to MP3 with Spotify-downloader.com?
1. Open Spotify web player or app. Find the playlist you want to download. Click … icon - Share - Copy link to playlist.
2. Open Spotify-downloader.com in your browser. Paste above Spotify playlist link and click Submit.
3. Wait for the tool to analysis the playlist and click Download ZIP. You can scroll the slider to check if all songs are correct.
You can use above online tool to download Spotify playlist on Android directly or download them on your computer first and then transfer to Android.
Besides, there is also an Android app that allows you to download Spotify playlists to MP3 on Android. It’s called Fildo. It’s important to note that Fildo is not available on the official app stores but can be downloaded from its official website.
How to download Spotify playlist to MP3 on Android with Fildo?
Step 1. Install Fildo from the official website and launch it on your Android mobile.
Step 2. Tap More – IMPORT SPOTIFY.
Step 3. Sign in to your Spotify account, select Spotify playlists you want to import.
Step 4. Choose high matching or normal. Fildo does not host any mp3 files, it matches the Spotify songs from third party mp3 search engines.
Step 5. Once your playlists are successfully imported into Fildo, you can tap the three dots icon and start to download playlists from Spotify.
Currently there is no Spotify to MP3 converter app for iOS. Spotify hack IPA for iOS such as Spotify++ and Spotilife can't download Spotify songs. As alternative, you can download Spotify playlists to MP3 with Pazu Spotify Converer or free online Spotify to MP3 converter on Mac and then sync the songs to your iOS device.
Download and convert any Spotify songs, albums, playlists to MP3/M4A etc.