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Best Way to Download Spotify Music on Mac

You can download Spotify songs, playlists, and podcasts on Mac for offline listening.

By Lucy WongPublished about a year ago 3 min read
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Spotify is one of the best music streaming services, which lets you access a library of over 100 million tracks and more than 4 million podcasts without paying a single penny. You will also be able to listen to ad-free music and download tracks to the Spotify app to listen offline if you have a subscription to Spotify Premium. It is noteworthy that the download feature is only available for subscribers.

You can download albums, playlists, and podcasts on Spotify's mobile app if you have a Spotify Premium subscription. In contrast, you can only download playlists for offline listening using the Spotify client on a computer. If you are using a macOS and looking for how to download Spotify music on Mac, you're definitely in the right place. Here we'll introduce two solutions to download music from Spotify on Mac OS for offline playing. Let's check the solutions below.

Solution 1. Download Spotify Music on Mac with Spotify Premium

It is easy to download Spotify music for offline listening on your Mac with a Premium account. First of all, you can download the Spotify application available for Mac from Spotify's website. Once downloaded, you can follow the steps below to download music on Spotify with a Wi-Fi connection.

1. Install and launch the Spotify app on your Mac. Log into your Spotify account. Please make sure that your account is on a Premium subscription.

2. Find the playlists you want to download, click the "Download" button to the right so that the toggle turns green. The playlist will immediately start downloading.

3. After you finish downloading your music, the songs in the playlist will be available offline. A green symbol will appear next to a downloaded playlist.

Open Spotify and select Offline Mode, you can see which playlists are available offline. Now you can listen to the downloaded playlists offline on your Mac.

Solution 2. Download Spotify Music on Mac without Spotify Premium

Step 1. Customize the Output Parameters.

Open Macsome Spotify Downloader on your Mac, and the Spotify app will be opened at the same time. Click the "Settings" icon in the top-right corner to customize the output parameters. In the "Convert Settings", you can choose the output format (MP3, WAV, AAC, FLAC, AIFF, or ALAC), output quality (320kbps, 256kbps, 128kbps). In the "Output Settings", you could change the output folder as you prefer. Furthermore, to make the music collection easier, Macsome also enables you to sort the downloaded Spotify music files by album or artist.

Step 2. Add Spotify Music and Playlists.

You can copy and paste the songs or playlists from Spotify into the search box to add Spotify audio files. Or you can also drag and drop them to the add window directly.

Step 3. Start to Download Songs from Spotify Music on Mac.

Everything is ready, just hit on the "Convert" button, then the program will begin to download Spotify songs to Mac and convert them to a standard format like MP3 at the same time, with ID3 tags retained, such as Title, Artist, Album, Artwork, Track Number, Year, etc.

Step 4. Start to Download Songs from Spotify Music on Mac.

When the downloading is finished, click the "Converted" tab, and you will find the downloaded Spotify music history. Then you can click the "folder" icon to see the well-downloaded Spotify music files locally on your Mac computer. Now, you can enjoy any Spotify content on Mac offline without any restriction.

Want to download Spotify music on your Mac? Please refer to the detailed tips. http://bit.ly/3JPghoy

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