Are there any reasons that you have to download Spotify playlist to hard drive? Of course you do. Spotify music streaming player can allow users to play the audio files on Spotify only. But saving Spotify music to hard drive can make it possible to play Spotify playlist in your cars, CD players and other portable devices. But what embarrass you may be that it is not available for you to simply copy the audio files to the hard drive because Spotify has set the DRM protection to each of the songs in it, and only Spotify Premium subscriber can download Spotify music. In such a case, how to download Spotify music to hard drive, or how to download music from spotify premium to hard drive? If you are also trying to find out the solution, then this post will be beneficial to you.

Part 1: Why is it necessary to download Spotify playlist to hard drive?

What are you preferred ways to kill your leisure time? For most people, listening to a piece of music will be quite amazing when you are in the tired or bored state. Well, that is really the case. If you are a music enthusiast, you must be very familiar with Spotify, one of the most famous and excellent music streaming applications which could provide users the most and the newest songs. One of the most attractive features of Spotify is that you can download a lot of Spotify playlists for offline listening. Since Spotify is dominant in the field of music streaming applications, it can provide more than 30 million song libraries with over 20,000 new songs added every day, which allows music lovers to find their own preferred music playlists. It sounds perfect, doesn't it? However, things are not running smoothly all the time. If you have used Spotify for a period time, especially you have been indulged in downloading various music playlists, then you must have found an annoying question that your portable device or your computer may be running out of space due to the large amount of space that the offline Spotify playlists should occupy. What is the best way to release the storage capacity on your device or computer? The question should fall to the hard drive. Simply, you can back up or save Spotify songs to hard drive or download music to hard drive from Spotify to the hard drive.

 

Part 2: What are the best Spotify apps to download Spotify playlist to hard drive?

How to download music to hard drive from Spotify? Before setting this question down, you need to know why the Spotify playlist can't be saved directly to your hard drive? Just mentioned in the above part, as a dominant streaming music application, all the Spotify playlists, specifically all the songs in Spotify have been DRM protected to prevent them from being copied and played in other applications or devices except Spotify. Even though you have downloaded or saved the Spotify songs on some other devices, you still fail to play it in the right way. Since saving Spotify music to hard driv can help you to release more space on your phone or computer, today we will try our best to find the solutions on how to move Spotfiy library to another hard drive to offer you the Spotify experience on other devices, and furthermore these audio files can all be corrected played eventually. The simplest way is to take good use of the third-party Spotify music converters or tools to remove the DRM protection so as to save Spotify songs to hard drive. Next, I will introduce three of the best and the most powerful Spotify apps for your further references.

No 1. Leawo Prof. DRM

I will push Leawo Prof. DRM in the first place. As a comprehensive DRM Removal Program and DRM media converter, Leawo Prof. DRM integrates DRM video converter, DRM music converter, DRM audiobook converter, DRM eBooks converter and DRM Spotify converter so that you can easily solve the DRM protection problems with several steps. It can remove the DRM protection from Spotify music, iTunes music, Audible books, and furthermore convert them to other popular media formats compatible with common media devices with 50X faster speed and the original quality retained. Asides from removing Spotify DRM protection, Leawo Prof. DRM download and convert Spotify music to the common music player compatible formats such as MP3, M4B, M4A, AAC, WAV, FLAC and so on. What's more, it also allows you convert various files in batch and save them in the same formats. What's more attractive is that in order to obtain better audio quality, users can edit the audio by adjusting the audio channel, bit rate, sample rate etc. With such a Spotify music converter at hand, you will never be bothered by the DRM protected Spotify playlists. How to transfer Spotify playlist to your phone hard drive? Next, I will elaborate the detailed steps.

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No. 2 Audials Tunebit Premium 2018

Second of all, Audials Tunebit Premium 2018 is also regarded as one of the most popular Spotify music recorder. Different from Leawo Prof. DRM Spotify converter, Audials Tunebit tends to be an audio recorder which can record Spotify music and convert the Spotify music to other common audio formats. Of course, it can record all kinds of DRM protected audios. After recording the Spotify music, then the music can be directly copied to your hard drive. But its cons lie in that it is more complicated to operate than a simple Spotify music converter, and it may cause the original quality lossess. Furthermore, it only supports Windows OS.

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No. 3 Spotify Audio Converter Platinum

The third Spotify music converter is Spotify Audio Converter Platinum. As a professional Spotify music downloader, it can easily help you to solve the problem on how to download Spotify music to hard drive. I t can convert all the Spotify music to MP3, AAC, FLAC and WAV formats, as well as removing DRM protection. After the conversion, it can keeps the ID3 tag, such as the primary information about the original Spotify music files. Furthermore, Spotify Audio Converter Platinum can provide you the lifetime updates service. You can be accessible to the latest version all the time.

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Part 3: How to download Spotify music to hard drive with Leawo Prof. DRM?

Referring to the above introduction about the three pieces of Spotify music converters, now you can start to move the Spotify music to hard drive. How to move Spotify library to another hard drive with Leawo Prof. DRM? The transferring process is quite easy. Just refer to the following steps.

Step 1. Download Leawo Prof. DRM and install it on your computer.

   

Step 2. Add the Spotify playlist to Prof. DRM. You can simply click the "Spotify" icon on the top or directly drag the songs to this tool.

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Step 3. Set the output audio format and quality. After inserting the Spotify playlist, you can move your mouse to the songs, and you can see the editing icon, click it to set the format of the song, as well as “Channels”, “Sample rate”, “Bit rate”.

Step 4. Choose the output directory. After setting the output format, you can choose the output directory on the bottom. Once selected, just click “Convert” to start the conversion process.

Step4.Remove DRM and Convert AA audiobooks to MP3

Click the blue Convert button at the bottom to start removing DRM from Audible AA audiobook, and then converting AA to MP3 right away. The DRM removal and conversion process will be finished in a short while.

Part 4: How to use Leawo Music Recorder to record Spotify music?

Furthermore, asides from using the professional Leawo Prof. DRM to remove the DRM protection of Spotify music files so that you can download music to hard drive from Spotify, you can also turn your eyes to Leawo Music Recorder which can also record the Spotify music files and store total new DRM-free Spotify audio files on your computer. The instructions are quite simple.

Step 1. Download Leawo Music Recorder and install it on your computer.

Step 2. Import the Spotify music files to the program. Click the "Audio source" icon on the main interface to set the audio parameters. Then choose "Record Computer Audio" to import the Spotify music files on your computer.

 

Step 3. Click the “Start” icon on the top left corner to start recording process. Once the process is completed, then you can obtain a new audio Spotify DRM-free file which can be played in the common media players.

Part 5: How to transfer the DRM-free music to hard drive?

Once you have downloaded the DRM protected Spotify music to your computer, then it will be much easier for you to transfer these DRM-free music to hard drive. If you only need to transfer them to the hard drive on your computer, then will be required to select all the music files, and click "copy" and transfer them to the prepared hard drive, finally right click "paste". It is done. If you would like to transfer them to an external hard drive, first of all, connect the external hard drive to your computer. Follow the ordinary "copy" and "paste" steps. You can obtain these music files on your external hard drive.

Conclusion

The above recommended ways to download music to hard drive from Spotify is by far the most handy and useful way to achieve the goal. By referring to the detailed steps, you will not need to subscribe to the Spotify Premium; instead, relying on Leawo Prof. DRM Spotify Music Converter, then you can easily solve the problem on how to download music from Spotify premium to hard drive. It is worth trying.