How to Download Music from Spotify for Free in 2022

I love listening to music, especially when I am travelling. I mean who doesn’t, right? And with online services like Spotify, you can arrange all your music collection in one single place. So, you hope on the train, click a button, and enjoy the scenery with your favorite track.

However, the last time I went on a vacation and there was no internet, I couldn’t listen to a single song on my computer the entire time. It was so frustrating to be honest. When I came back from the vacation, I decided to backup a few of my playlists from Spotify for offline listening. It’s then that I realized that if you do not have Spotify Premium, you will not be able to download songs on Spotify! To make things worse, those downloaded music can be only played with Spotify app because of DRM protection. That’s why I decided to find a better way out in order to download Spotify music for free and play them on my car.

Fortunately, the internet is full of solutions to all our problems, or at least most of them. Here are a few of those solutions which you may use in case you want to download music from Spotify for free in 2022. I have divided the methods into two parts, first where you can use download songs directly if you have a Spotify Premium account, and second, in case you don’t have a Spotify Premium account or want to play downloaded music somewhere else.

How to Download Music from Spotify With a Premium account

This is the simplest way to download songs on Spotify, but it is not free since you have to pay for a Spotify Premium account, starting at $9.99 per month.

There are added benefits to having a Premium account on Spotify, like you would be able to travel abroad with your songs which you can do only for 14 days with a free account, you can pick and play any track on mobile which is available only on selected playlists for free accounts etc. The most important feature for an Spotify Premium account, however, is that you would be able to download music for offline listening. But the question is, are the features worth paying for when you have other free options available as an alternative.

Pros:

• Take music abroad.
• Play music on highest quality.
• Download music for offline play.
• No ads.

Cons:

• Monthly paid plan.
• Not enough useful features for the given price.
• Songs cannot be transferred to another device.
• Downloaded songs cannot be played on any other player or device.
• Download limit of 10000 songs on maximum 5 devices.
• Need to login at least once in every 30 days to retain the downloaded songs.

If you have already subscribed to Spotify Premium, then you can follow the below steps to downloads songs for offline listening on your computer.

1. Go to Spotify on your computer.

2. Open the playlist on Spotify that you would like to download for offline listening.

3. You’ll see an option for Download beside the playlist, flick the toggle button beside it. This will ensure that this playlist is saved in your Library.

4. Next time you want go offline, or you are without the internet, and would like to listen to these songs, simply open Spotify, then click on File at the top and select Offline mode.

5. This will show you all the songs in your Library that you chose to download, the rest of the songs will be grayed out.

If you are not opted for a premium account, then you can try the following tools to download music from Spotify for free. However, you need to pay a few bucks for the software programs, which is much lower than Spotify Premium plans.

To utilize the trick, you should first get the url of Spotify song, album or playlist.

How to Get the URL of Spotify Song/Album/Playlist

Before we move ahead, let me show you how to find and copy the URL for songs, albums, and playlists that you would like to download from Spotify. This will invariably be required irrespective of which method you are using.

1. Open Spotify web player from this link: https://open.spotify.com/

2. Search for the song that you would like to download.

3. Once found, right click on that song, then click on Share -> Copy Song Link.

4. In case of a playlist, click on those same 3 horizontal dots, then click on Share -> Copy link to playlist. This is the same for album.

How to Download Music from Spotify Without Premium Account for free

If you don’t have a Spotify Premium account, and wouldn’t like to pay for it just to play songs when you are offline, and would rather downloads songs on Spotify for free, then the following tools are good choices for you. I have provided a short review of each of these tools, their pros and cons, and the process using which you can use these tools to download songs on Spotify for free in 2022.

#1 spotDL GitHub

This is a free utility that can be used to download music from Spotify along with the metadata of those songs including track name, number, album cover, genre etc. Using this tool, you can also download songs from YouTube.

spotDL can be used on Windows, macOS, and Linux. This is an open-source utility, so you can go ahead and check the code from their GitHub repository. However, its biggest challenge is that it is a Command Line-based utility. If you are not a fan of using a Command Line, then I would suggest you to check some of the other utilities listed below.

Pros:

• Free to use.
• Open source.
• Available on Windows, macOS, Linux.
• Download metadata for tracks.

Cons:

• No GUI.
• Has prerequisites before you can install and use spotDL.
• FFMPEG, one of the prerequisites, is a bit difficult to install on Windows OS.
• No support available.

If you are brave enough to follow through with spotDL, then read and try the below steps to download songs from Spotify.

1. Install Python 3.6.1 or above, and FFMPEG 4.2 or above on the computer.

2. Download spotDL from their GitHub repository.

3. Open Spotify, play the track you want to download and copy its link.

4. Open a Command Prompt on the Windows computer.

5. Use the below command on the Command Prompt to download a song using spotDL. Don’t forget to replace the URL with that of the URL of the song that you would like to download.

spotdl https://open.spotify.com/track/0kC4Rrdb4B4hAgt3PMoARe

To download an album or playlist, go over to Spotify, copy the URL, then use the below command to download the entire album or playlist.

spotDL https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4EPCweH8rUXzIMMbqK8df4

#2 AllToMP3

This is another free open-source utility for downloading music from Spotify with a user-friendly and clean UI. It is completely free to use, however, it is rarely updated. Moreover, being an open-source product, don’t expect any technical support to bail you out in case you run into any problems. The output is of 256 kbps quality, which is pretty low compared to the standard 320 kbps.

Pros:

• Free and open-source.
• User-friendly UI.
• Support multiple languages.
• Compatible with Windows, MacOS, and Linux.

Cons:

• Low quality of audio quality.
• No technical support.
• Loss of audio quality during conversion.

After downloading and installing AllToMp3 utility (alltomp3.org), you can follow the below steps to download songs from Spotify using AllToMP3.

Copy the song URL, paste it in the utility and simply press Enter to start the download. You will see the playlist name and how many songs in it.

#3 Tunesbro Spotify Music Downloader

This is a simple, easy to use, Spotify music downloader from Tunesbro. It supports downloading of individual songs, playlists and albums. This utility has a clean UI, you can have the ability to select songs that you would like to download instead of downloading the entire playlist or album. It supports most of the major formats, and the downloaded songs can be burned on a CD/DVD from inside this utility.

Pros:

• Download all available albums, playlists, or individual songs on Spotify.
• Fast speed for music downloading.
• Clean and user-friendly UI.
• Support a wide range of audio output, including MP3, AAC, FLAC, WAV, AIFF and ALAC.
• Custom audio present for audio output, such as bit rate and sample rate.
• Burn downloaded songs to CD.
• Very good customer service and technical support.
• Show down computer when download is completed.

Cons:

• Paid tool starting from $12.95.
• Not available on Mac.

How to Use TunesBro Spotify Music Downloader:

1. Download and install Spotify Music Download from this link:

2. Launch the tool, then copy the URL of the song/album/playlist from Spotify.

3. Click on the Add Tracks button, then paste the URL and click on Parsing button.

4. Once you see the song or the list of songs, select the ones that you would like to download, then click on the OK button. After that, select the format. Select output format From Profile drop-down list.

5. Finally, choose a destination folder to save the downloaded music and click on Start to begin the download task. There is a progress bar for monitoring the download activity.

#3 AudFree SpoDable

This is an efficient utility that can be used to download hundreds of songs from Spotify for offline listening. AudFree SpoDable has a user-friendly interface which makes it very easy to use. It can also be used to convert these downloaded songs in various other formats including FLAC, WAV, and MP3. They have a free version available on their website, however, it can only convert each song partially. You can give it a try using this free version, and if you think that the price and the list of features suits your requirement, you can guy it from them.

Pros:

• 5 times faster song conversion.
• Free trial version available.
• Convert songs into other formats.
• Intuitive and clean UI.
• Support Windows and macOS.

Cons:

• Spotify app must be installed on the computer.
• Free version can convert songs partially.
• At times, throws a registration error while converting songs.
• Cannot stream songs while they are being downloaded.

How to Use AudFree SpoDable

1. Download and install AudFree SpoDable from their website.

2. Open Spotify, then launch AudFree SpoDable utility to the following window.

3. Now, there are 2 ways to download the music from Spotify. You can either drag-and-drop the music from Spotify directly to the AudFree SpoDable window shown above, or you can copy paste the URL for the tracks, albums, or playlists and then paste it in the utility.

4. Next, set the output quality by click on the Preference button on the main window.

5. You can set the target folder by clicking on the Browse button beside the Output folder in the main window.

6. Once done, click on the Convert button to start downloading the songs.

#4 Sidify Music Converter

This is another freemium utility that can be used to download songs from Spotify. This utility can convert Podcasts and Spotify Radio content along with regular albums, tracks, and playlists.

Although, the free version of Sidify Music Converter is quite limited in its functionality. For example, the free version downloads songs with reduced quality, it cannot convert the songs into any other format, and it does not retain the metadata of the downloaded songs. If the quality of the songs if not a big issue for you then this is a win-win.

Pros:

• Freemium software.
• 10 times faster in converting the songs.
• Download Podcasts and content from Spotify Radio.
• Compatible with macOS and Windows.
• Support drag-and-drop of songs, albums, and playlists from Spotify.

Cons:

• Spotify app must be installed on the same computer.
• Take more time to open this app.
• Free version does not support conversion into other formats.
• Free version downloads songs without the original quality.

How to Use Sidify Music Converter

1. Download and install the Sidify Music Converter from their website (www.sidify.com/sp-win/music-converter.html), then launch the tool. This will open the Spotify application automatically.

2. Click on the + sign to open the window where you can drag and drop the music from Spotify.

3. Click on the cog-wheel button on the top right to set the output quality, target folder where the songs would be saved, along with the conversion speed.

4. Once done, click on the Convert button to start downloading the tracks from Spotify.

#5 Aimersoft iMusic

With Aimersoft iMusic, apart from being able to download songs from Spotify you also get a few other nifty features. For example, you can transfer music between your iOS and Android devices and from Windows to Mac, you can manage the music that you download automatically or manually, record songs that cannot be downloaded etc. It supports both Windows and Mac devices. Apart from Spotify, it can also download music from YouTube, Pandora, VEVO etc.

Pros:

• Download high quality music from multiple sites.
• Build-in feature to remove DRM from music.
• Easily transfer music to mobile devices.
• Rebuild and manage iTunes library.
• Burn music into DVD/CD.

Cons:

• The free version is limited in functionality.
• The paid version costs a fortune (almost $60).
• Installation is quite slow.
• Some of the Spotify playlists cannot be downloaded.

How to use Aimersoft iMusic for downloading Spotify songs

1. You can download songs from Spotify using Aimersoft iMusic in 2 steps after you have downloaded (imusic.aimersoft.com) and installed iMusic on your computer.

2. Launch iMusic, then copy paste the song in the box given in the Download tab.

3. Click on the Download button and that’s it!

#6 Allavsoft

This is yet another Spotify song downloader. It is a freemium software, the do have a limited time free trial version available. Allavsoft claims that it can also download Udemy courses. One of the major challenges of this utility is its UI. The UI is cluttered because of which the learning curve is pretty high.

Also, it supports downloading of Spotify songs in only 128 kbps quality, it is also pretty slow, FLAC conversion is at low quality. If you are not happy with the other utilities here, only then will I suggest you to go for Allavsoft.

Pros:

• Auto detect Spotify url.
• Download multiple songs at once.
• Live update without restart.
• Multiple languages support.

Cons:

• Need a Spotify account for login before download.
• Song’s name not showing up.
• Low quality of downloads (128 kbps only)
• Slow downloading speed (not utilize full network bandwidth).

How to use Allavsoft to download Spotify music

1. Here’s how to use this software after you have downloaded and installed it on your computer.

2. In the Download tab paste the URL of the Spotify song.

3. Click on the down arrow button and enter Spotify account credentials.

4. Choose the songs that needs to be downloaded and wait for the process to be done.

Conclusion

We have reviewed about half a dozen utilities that you can use to download songs from Spotify for free if you do not have a Spotify Premium account. All of them have their own plus and minus points. However, while reviewing, I found Tunesbro Spotify Music Downloader to be the simplest and most efficient. But if you want to use an open-source tool, you should go for the spotDL utility on GitHub.