Download Music from Spotify

Using Spotify in Offline mode is the perfect way to listen to music on the go. You can use Spotify's Offline Mode as a premium member while using a computer, a phone, or a tablet equally.

Steps

Listening Offline on a Phone or Tablet

  1. Download the Spotify app. Go to the Google Play store (for Android products) or the Apple store (for Apple products), search for Spotify, and download the official app to your phone.
    • If you have a tablet, the instructions to set up Spotify Offline are the same as the tablet's phone counterpart.
  2. Create or upgrade your Spotify account. Spotify Offline--the feature that allows you to download and listen to music without wifi--is for Premium members only, which means you'll have to pay for the service. If you don't already have an account with Spotify, you'll need to navigate to their website and click "Get Spotify Premium" on their front page. Follow the site's instructions to create a Premium account.[1]
    • If you already have a free account with Spotify, log in and click the "Premium" tab in the upper right-hand area of the screen. Follow Spotify's on-screen instructions to upgrade.[2]
    • Instead of signing up with an email account and specifically entering your personal information, you can simply click the "Sign up with Facebook" option to use your Facebook account.
  3. Make sure you're connected to the internet. Spotify recommends downloading over an internet connection, since cellular data can prove costly. If you absolutely need to download using data, go to Settings and tap "Download using cellular" to enable this feature.[3]
  4. Create a playlist. Go to "Your Library" at the bottom of the app's interface, select "Playlists", hit "Edit", press the white plus sign, and tap "Create" after entering a name. Add songs to this playlist by tapping the "Options" button next to a song, selecting "Add to playlist", and selecting your playlist's name.
  5. Download your playlist. On your phone's interface, navigate to the Library page and select the playlist, songs, artists, or albums that you would like to download. At the top of your song, playlist, artist, or album screen, slide the button under "Available Offline" to the right. Your music should start downloading.
    • On iPhone or iPad, your download progress comes in the form of a green bar underneath the "Library" heading on your Library page, though you will still see green downward-facing arrows next to successfully-downloaded songs.
    • Android phones don't have the bar under "Library" as part of their download interface, though they also display green arrows next to tracks once downloading is complete.
  6. Activate Offline Mode. Once your tracks are done downloading, find the "Your Library" tab at the bottom of the screen and select it to bring up the Settings option. In the Settings menu, select "Playback", then slide the button next to "Offline" right. It should turn green, signifying that you've successfully implemented Offline Mode!
    • If you leave wifi range or are in Airplane Mode, your phone should automatically switch to Offline Mode.

Listening Offline on a Desktop

  1. Create or upgrade your Spotify account. Spotify Offline--the feature that allows you to download and listen to music without wifi--is for Premium members only, which means you'll have to pay for the service. If you don't already have an account with Spotify, you'll need to navigate to their website and click "Get Spotify Premium" on their front page. Follow the site's instructions to create a Premium account.[1]
    • If you already have a free account with Spotify, log in and click the "Premium" tab in the upper right-hand area of the screen. Follow Spotify's on-screen instructions to upgrade.[2]
    • Instead of signing up with an email account and specifically entering your personal information, you can simply click the "Sign up with Facebook" option to use your Facebook account.
  2. Download the Spotify set-up. After you've created an account with Spotify, click on the "Download" tab in the upper right-hand area of their website to download the Spotify program installer. Though the download should initiate automatically, you can click the "restart the download" link in the middle of the page if it doesn't.
    • You can access this set-up file in your default "downloads" location.
  3. Install Spotify to your desktop. Double-click the Spotify set-up you just downloaded and let the installer do its job. Once installation is complete, sign in using your account information.
    • Make sure you have a reliable internet connection during this process, since Spotify needs internet access to load its databases.
  4. Personalize your Spotify music. Once you've logged into Spotify, you can browse by genre, new releases, and playlists. Add specific tracks or whole playlists to your personal account by clicking the white plus sign next to tracks and playlist names. You can also view these items by clicking on any of the links under the "YOUR MUSIC" heading on the left-hand side of the interface.
  5. Create a playlist. In the lower left-hand corner of your interface, click the white plus sign next to "New Playlist" to create your own playlist. Add tracks as you see fit by clicking and dragging songs, artists, or albums into this file.
  6. Download your playlist for Offline play. Click the "Available Offline" option at the top of the playlist when you finish. It should turn green, and the tracks in your playlist will begin downloading to your Spotify program.[3]
    • While your tracks are downloading, there will be a circular arrow rotating on the left-hand side of the track's information. Once the process is complete, a green downward-facing arrow will take the circular arrow's place.
  7. Activate Offline Mode. In the menu bar, click on "File", then click the "Offline Mode" option. You should now be using Spotify's Listen Offline feature! Keep in mind that you'll only be able to listen to tracks for which you've actively selected "Available Offline" and downloaded fully.
    • Spotify will automatically switch over to Offline Mode if you suddenly lose your wifi signal.

Tips

  • Spotify allows Premium users to download up to 3,333 songs spanning three devices, so you can feasibly have songs on a computer, a mobile phone, and a tablet.
  • Though you can technically listen offline indefinitely, you will need to connect to the internet at least once every 30 days for Spotify to refresh its libraries and update. If you don't, you can lose your account information, so be sure to connect periodically.
  • Spotify Offline is a fantastic radio alternative for camping trips, long drives or commutes--especially flights--or any area in which you mobile or internet access is otherwise impaired.
  • Purchasing a Premium account comes with several other incentives besides Offline Mode, such as a no-ads experience.
  • Spotify doubles as a media player, so even if you only have a free account, you can listen to your iTunes or Music Player tracks offline through Spotify if you please.

Warnings

  • Downloading anything on mobile takes a huge amount of cellular data, so you might want to hold off until you can utilize an internet connection.
  • Any attempt to truly "download" music from Spotify's database--that is, to rip the MP3 files or otherwise record them--is both against Spotify's Terms & Conditions and the law in general.
  • Spotify's supported tracks and artists are subject to change based on copyright. This means you may lose some of your playlist tracks from time to time.

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Sources and Citations

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://www.spotify.com/us/premium/
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 https://www.spotify.com/us/signup/
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 https://support.spotify.com/us/using_spotify/search_play/listen-offline/
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