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Spotify is clearly the best music streaming service out there — err, at least according to us. Its premium service is relatively affordable, it offers more than 30 millions songs, and it will allow you to download specific songs and playlists to listen to when you’re offline. Downloading music directly from Spotify is easy, too, and can be done on both your mobile device and desktop machine.
If you’re unclear on how to go about doing it, however, we’ve put together a simple tutorial on how to download songs from Spotify. The one caveat — if it even is one — is that you can only download 3,333 songs on each device, and can only do so on up to three different devices. You’ll also need Spotify Premium and an internet connection to make it happen.
Desktop
Step 1: When viewing a playlist you’d like to download, click the button marked Follow, which is located directly to the right of the Play button. Otherwise, the download option will not be available.
Step 2: Next, toggle the Download slider in the upper-right corner of any playlist. The playlist will start to download, but keep in mind that it may take a little while depending on how large the playlist is.
Once saved, the playlist will be accessible from within the “Playlists” pane on the left. Sadly, unlike on mobile, you currently cannot download albums or podcasts on your desktop — only playlists.
Setting your desktop to Offline Mode
You can listen to your downloaded music whenever you lose connection to the internet, but if you want to manually set your desktop to Offline Mode, follow the steps below.
MacOS
- Launch Spotify.
- Click Spotify in the application toolbar.
- Select Offline Mode from the drop-down menu.
Windows
- Launch Spotify.
- Click the three horizontal dots in the upper-left corner.
- Scroll over File.
- Select Offline Mode.
Mobile
To download an album or playlist
Toggle the the Download slider in the upper-right corner of an album or playlist, directly above the song list. Once downloaded, your music will be accessible from within the Playlists or Albums pane on the left.
Note: You don’t have to be following a playlist or an album in order to download it on your mobile device.
To download a podcast
Step 1: When viewing a podcast like Trends with Benefits, tap the three horizontal dots in the upper-right corner — or the three vertical dots, if using an Android device — to access the info pane.
Step 2: Next, tap Manage Downloads.
Step 3: A download icon will appear beside each episode, allowing you to pick and choose which you’d like to download. You can also tap the three horizontal dots to the right of individual episodes and select Download if you prefer a quicker method.
Setting your mobile device to Offline Mode
You can listen to your downloaded music whenever you lose connection to the internet, but if you want to manually set your smartphone or tablet to Offline Mode, follow the steps below.
How To Go Offline Spotify
- Tap Your Library in the bottom-right corner of Spotify.
- Tap the Setting cog in the upper-right corner.
- Tap Playback.
- Toggle the Offline slider at the top.
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We have already shown you how to get started with Spotify, and we have also shown how to use Spotify with your Sonos system. Now we will show you how to use Spotify on your iPhone in Offline mode, allowing you to keep your favorite playlist at the ready, even when you find yourself without an Internet connection.
To store music on your iPhone for offline playback, you will need a Premium Spotify account, which runs $9.99 a month. You can sign up for a Spotify account here.
Once you have a Spotify Premium account, you can install and use the mobile app (iTunes link) on your iPhone.
After you have installed the app and have signed in to your Spotify account on your iPhone, you will see a list of the playlists you have created. Tap on the playlist you would like to store on your device for offline playback.
Toggle the 'Available Offline' switch, located at the top of the playlist, to Yes, making that playlist available offline. Once you have turned on Offline mode for a particular playlist, you should then see a progress icon next to each song in the playlist. A green icon indicates that song has been saved to your device for offline listening, a black icon indicates that song is awaiting download.
Once a playlist has been saved to your iPhone, you will see a green down arrow icon in the top-left corner of the playlist, similar to that seen above. The green dot next to the playlist name indicates that the playlist is a collaborative playlist, not that the playlist is available for offline listening.
To save battery, you can force Spotify into Offline mode but tapping on the Settings tab, and turning on Offline mode. Doing so will limit your listening capability to those playlists you have saved to your device, preventing your iPhone from streaming music.
Once Offline mode is turned on, you will have to log back in to Spotify once every 30 days to validate that your account is still a Premium account.
You can store up to 3,333 songs in Offline mode on each device (up to three) that you have Spotify installed on.
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