It’s easy to take Spotify for granted – until slow streaming or no internet connection prevents you from listening to certain songs or recover your favorite podcast. Fortunately, Spotify now Enable you to Download music and podcasts to your smartphone or computer so you can still listen even when you’re offline. Thoption e It comes in handy if you go straight a long way through areas with inappropriate mobile services. Listening to downloaded content instead of streaming it to Spotify servers also helps reduce monthly data consumption.
You can download content to Spotify apps for Android, iOS, Mac, and Windows, or from the Spotify web player, but download privileges differ between account types:
- Premium Spotify users can download complete playlists and podcast episodes.
- Free users can download podcasts.
Unfortunately, Spotify does not allow you to download in full albums or even specifics parts; yyou will first need to save the songs you want to download to a playlist. That being said, yesyou can download as many playlists and podcasts as the device will allow.
The downloaded content will be remain in the Spotify offline library for as long as you want, but you’ll need to sign in to your Spotify server at least every 30 days to check your account status. If not, access to downloaded songs will expire.
How to download audio content from Spotify
On the desktop (Mac, Windows, web)
- Open the Spotify desktop app, or go to open.spotify.com.
- Connect and make sure your device is connected to the internet.
- To download music: Open a playlist and switch “Unload” button on
- To download a podcast: Click the down arrow button next to the episode name.
- Wait for the download to complete. The downloaded content is saved in your library and will display a green arrow.
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If you still don’t see the download option in the desktop app, make sure you’re running the latest version of the app you can get. And then wait; starting with this writing, Spotify is still released characteristic.
Mobile (Android, iOS)
- Open the Spotify app and make sure you’re connected to wifi or mobile data (Note: DCharging your mobile phone will impact your mobile plan data limits.)
- Open a playlist or podcast that you want to download.
- On Android: Click on “Unload” switch.
- On iOS: Touch the down arrow icon.
- Downloaded songs and podcasts will display a green check mark. You can access all offline content from “Your library” tab.