How to Download Music from Spotify to Mac

Part 1. Download Spotify music on Mac with Premium

Please make sure your Mac computer is under an internet connection. And then, you can refer to the following steps. Remember, you can’t directly download Spotify songs and albums except for playlists. You need to either move albums and songs to specific playlists (you can create as many as you want) or like songs using the heart icon and then download the automatic Liked Songs playlist.

Step 1. Open the Spotify app on Mac, and log into your Spotify account. It must be a Premium account and it's not expired.

Step 2. Choose the playlist or album that you'd like to download. On the upper right corner of the Spotify playlist, tap the option of Download so that the toggle turns green.

Step 3. When the downloading is finished, this button will become Downloaded. At this time, you can access them in offline mode.

If you have already downloaded music from Spotify to Mac, you will find that all these files are cache tracks. They are encrypted in protected formats, so you can only play them on those devices compatible with Spotify. In other words, you can't locate and transfer them to other devices for offline playback.

Part 2. Save Music from Spotify Forever on Mac without Premium

Is there another way to download Spotify music to Mac forever and save it as local files? Fortunately, the answer could be yes. Apart from upgrading to paid subscribers, a third-party Spotify downloader can help you out. Here, we will introduce a professional and powerful tool. That is NoteCable Spotify Music Converter. It is well-designed to locally download all Spotify content on Mac without Premium. It supports a 10X faster speed to download playlists, albums, podcasts, also including individual songs. It allows users to convert Spotify to plain formats such as MP3, AAC, WAV, FLAC, AIFF and ALAC files in high quality. In this case, you can play Spotify music anywhere offline.

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Tutorial on How to Download Music from Spotify to Mac

Step 1 Install and Launch NoteCable Spotify Music Converter

First, please download and install NoteCable Spotify Music Converter on your Mac. Start this program, and then click "Open Spotify Web Player". It will guide you to log in to your Spotify account on the web player.

Step 2 Choose Output Settings

Please click the Settings button on the upper right corner of NoteCable main interface. Here NoteCable allows you to choose output format, audio quality and sample rate. In addition, you can also select an output folder on your Mac to save the downloaded Spotify music, so that you can access them freely.

If you'd like to organize your music library better, you can save the output audio files into the folders sorted out by Artist, Album, Artist/Album, or Album/Artist.

Step 3 Add Music to Convert

Now you can enter any album or playlist, and click Add to list button. Then NoteCable will load all the songs in this playlist. Selectively choose the songs you'd like to download. Next click Convert Now to start downloading.

How to download multiple playlists? If you want more playlists to convert at one time, you can tap on Save to list to put the selected songs on the task list. Then turn back to another playlist and continue adding your desired songs. Finally, open the waiting list at the top right corner and tap the Convert button to proceed.

Step 4Check the Converted Songs

NoteCable will download your songs at a 10x faster speed. After the conversion is completed, click the history icon, and you will find downloaded songs listed here.

With an intuitive user interface, you can easily download and convert any Spotify music or playlist in just four steps while retaining 100% original quality and ID3 tags after conversion.

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