{"id":55828,"date":"2018-11-20T09:36:16","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T09:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/entips\/?p=55828"},"modified":"2019-09-05T07:18:39","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T07:18:39","slug":"how-to-download-music-from-spotify-on-mac-for-free-1372","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/entips\/how-to-download-music-from-spotify-on-mac-for-free-1372.html","title":{"rendered":"How to Download Music from Spotify on Mac for Free?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Q: \"Hello, I'd like to download Spotify songs on Mac for free. And I have always been the free subscriber on Spotify. However, there isn't the option to download the music for Spotify free users at all. How should I download Spotify Mac free as I've got my new Mac and Spotify ready? Any help will be appreciated.\"<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Actually, the question is common. Everyone knows that Spotify is available for almost all the computers in different operating system. With millions of songs offered for free listening, Spotify is definitely popular and has a large amount of users. While you will encounter the question like we mentioned above when you would like to download Spotify Mac free since Spotify only allows you to download music from Spotify Premium with some cost, instead of Spotify free. Fortunately, there are helpful solutions to download music from Spotify Mac free. <\/p>\n<div class=\"anchor-list-dark\">\n<ul class=\"pl40\">\n<li><a href=\"#part1\">Part 1: Introduce Spotify<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#part2\">Part 2: Prof. DRM for Mac to download Spotify songs for free<br \/>\n<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#part3\">Part 3: How to use Leawo Music Recorder for Mac to download Spotify music<br \/>\n<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h2 id=\"part1\" class=\"wp-part pl20 mt10\"><strong>Part 1: <\/strong>Introduce Spotify<\/h2>\n<p>As everyone knows, Spotify is a popular music streaming platform with over 40 million songs for music lovers to listen to. Available for 78 regions all over the world as well as for most modern devices, such as Windows, macOS, and Linux computers, iOS, Windows Phone and Android smartphones and tablets, and so on, it had 191 million monthly active users, including 87 million paying subscribers as of November 2018. How popular it is!  <\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"return hs.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/tutorial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/spotify-11.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/tutorial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/spotify-11.png\" title=\"Introduce Spotify \" alt=\"Introduce Spotify \" width=\"550\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Generally, three types of subscription is offered for Spotify users, including Spotify Free, Spotify Premium ($9.99 per month) and Spotify Family ($14.99 per month). Spotify Free users have access to listen to Spotify music for free with some ads, and only Premium subscriber can listen Spotify music offline. Moreover, due to DRM restriction, both Spotify Free users and Spotify Premium subscribers are confined to listen to Spotify with Spotify App. Thus, when you are intended to free download songs from Spotify Mac, you may meet some problems. Solutions offered here will guide you to completely download Spotify music to Mac for free.   <\/p>\n<h2 id=\"part2\" class=\"wp-part pl20 mt10\"><strong>Part 2: <\/strong>Prof. DRM for Mac to download Spotify songs for free<\/h2>\n<p>The first solution to download from Spotify Mac is to use the third-party downloader. Since most of third-party downloader may be just simply recording tool with limited output audio quality and recording speed, after continuous attempt of different downloader software, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/tunescopy-mac\/\">Leawo  Prof. DRM for Mac<\/a><\/strong> would be claimed the best and strongly recommended. <\/p>\n<p>This is professional and powerful Spotify music downloader Mac users can be skillfully used, which is also called Spotify music converter for Mac that allows to get rid of the restriction and convert Spotify music to the common DRM-free formats, including MP3, M4B, M4A, AAC, WAV, FLAC and so on for playing Spotify music freely on different music players offline. What's more, Prof. DRM Spotify Converter for Mac can not only keep 100% quality of the original music, but also allow to adjust audio channel, bit rate, sample rate, for a better music quality output. And the guide of how to download Spotify songs on Mac will be introduced in detail and help you download Spotify music free on Mac.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/downloads\/tunescopy.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/images\/icon\/Trial_win1.png\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\"><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/downloads\/tunescopy-mac.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/images\/icon\/Trial_mac1.png\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note: After you download Leawo Prof. DRM for Mac and install it, you should make sure that Spotify has been launched and the music smoothly played before you start Prof. DRM for Mac.<\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"return hs.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/tutorial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/play-spotify-4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/tutorial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/play-spotify-4.jpg\" title=\"Introduce Spotify\" alt=\"Introduce Spotify\" width=\"550\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Step 1: Import Spotify music to Prof. DRM for Mac<\/p>\n<p>On the Home panel, click the Spotify icon to enter the Spotify converting interface. Then you can import Spotify songs by either dragging albums or playlist at one time or dragging and dropping a song one by one to the program. <\/p>\n<div class=\"tc\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p><a onClick=\"return hs.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/tutorial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/add-spotify-music-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/tutorial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/add-spotify-music-3.jpg\" title=\"add spotify music \" alt=\"add spotify music\" width=\"550\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>If you are using Spotify web rather than Spotify app, you can also click \"Add files\" and then copy and past the URL of the song to the pop up dialogue to import the music file to the program.<\/p>\n<p><a onClick=\"return hs.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/tutorial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/import-spotify-web-songs-4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/tutorial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/import-spotify-web-songs-4.jpg\" title=\"Add spotify song\" alt=\"Add spotify song\" width=\"550\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Step 2: Set parameters for the output files<\/p>\n<p>Click the Edit icon to enter a new panel where you can freely choose the output format and set appropriate sample rate, bit rate, audio channel for the output file. And you can choose \"Apply to All\" or \"Apply to current\".<\/p>\n<div class=\"tc\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p><a onClick=\"return hs.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/tutorial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/output-parameters-setting-5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/tutorial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/output-parameters-setting-5.jpg\" title=\"Set parameters for the output files\" alt=\"Set parameters for the output files\" width=\"550\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> Step 3: Save the output music file<\/p>\n<p>At the bottom of the interface, you can select an output path to save the converted music files in Output box. <\/p>\n<p><a onClick=\"return hs.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/tutorial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/save-music-8.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/tutorial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/save-music-8.jpg\" title=\"Set output format\" alt=\"Set output format\" width=\"550\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Step 4: Remove DRM and download imported  files<\/p>\n<p>Click the blue button &ldquo;Convert&rdquo; at bottom  corner of the interface to start removing DRM on Spotify songs and save them in  common format. And you can immediately check the converted and downloaded songs  on &ldquo;Converted&rdquo; panel.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tc\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p><a onClick=\"return hs.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/tutorial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/remove-save-music-7.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/tutorial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/remove-save-music-7.jpg\" title=\"Choose  output directory\" alt=\"Choose  output directory\" width=\"550\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>This program works fast and you can  complete the DRM removal and get the DRM free Spotify music in a very short  time. Obviously, it could be a high-efficiency and easy-to-use downloader for Spotify for Mac download. Except for  this solution, there are also some amazing music recorders designed for <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/tutorial\/how-to-record-audio-from-the-internet.html\">recording  music from online audio<\/a><\/strong>, which can help you download Spotify Mac. And Leawo Music  Recorder would be one of the best we have used and identified as the most  useful.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"part3\" class=\"wp-part pl20 mt10\"><strong>Part 3: <\/strong>How to use Leawo Music Recorder for Mac to download Spotify music<\/h2>\n<p>Talking about the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/tutorial\/6-best-audio-recording-software-for-mac-1114.html\">popular  audio recording software<\/a><\/strong>,  Leawo Music Recorder is the most amazing and easy-to-use music recording  software program which helps you record music or record audio for free on Mac from  the built-in audio, computer audio and online music sources like YouTube,  Spotify, AOL Music, Last.fm, etc., and more powerfully as music downloader,  save the music or audio into MP3, WAV and W4A audio files with lossless  quality. Besides, this smart music recorder could adjust the output audio Bit  Rate and Sample Rate for better enjoyment. This Mac Music recorder also enables  you to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/tutorial\/how-to-trim-mp3-music-on-mac-1114.html\">trim  a music file<\/a><\/strong><strong> <\/strong>or preset a time gap  for recording so that it could automatically ignore unnecessary recordings and  avoid ads. Definitely, it can be used as great Spotify downloader Mac to record Spotify music and save it for  offline entertainment. <\/p>\n<p>For Spotify download Mac, you can download and install Leawo Music  Recorder for Mac on your Mac computer and follow the guide of how to record  music on Mac here:<\/p>\n<p>Step 1: Select the audio source <\/p>\n<p>Launch Leawo Music Recorder for Mac to enter the main interface, and then click the \"Audio Source\" icon to choose the source of the music you are going to record from. If you are going to record Spotify music, you could choose \"Record Computer audio\".\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"tc\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p><a onClick=\"return hs.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/tutorial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/music-recorder-mac-start-8.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/tutorial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/music-recorder-mac-start-8.jpg\" title=\"Select the audio source\" alt=\"Select the audio source\" width=\"550\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Note: you can click the \"Recording task scheduler\" to set the recording Start time and Duration of the music to make sure that you record is the right music.\n<\/p>\n<p>Step 2: Set output format for the music  recording<\/p>\n<p>Figure out the proper music format that your recordings should be saved. You could go to General Preferences and click \"Format\" to enter the format setting panel where you could select the output format including MP3, M4A and WAV and adjust the audio settings of Audio Codec, Bit Rate and Sample Rate.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"tc\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p><a onClick=\"return hs.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/tutorial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/music-recorder-mac-format-9.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/tutorial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/music-recorder-mac-format-9.jpg\" title=\"Select the audio source\" alt=\"Select the audio source\" width=\"550\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Step 3: Start recording Spotify music <\/p>\n<p>Return to the main interface and start recording Spotify music by clicking the red \"Start\" button. Then you start to play the Spotify music you are willing to download to Mac.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"tc\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p><a onClick=\"return hs.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/tutorial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/music-recorder-mac-recording-11.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/tutorial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/music-recorder-mac-recording-11.jpg\" title=\"Select the audio source\" alt=\"Select the audio source\" width=\"550\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Step 4: Edit the tag of the recorded  Music <\/p>\n<p>Leawo Music Recorder for Mac would automatically download the Spotify music you recorded and add music tags for it. Thus the recorded Spotify songs will be clear with the artist, name, album artwork, album, etc. If necessary, you could also go to the Library and All Recordings to edit the music tags manually as you like.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"tc\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p><a onClick=\"return hs.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/tutorial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/music-recorder-mac-library-12.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/tutorial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/music-recorder-mac-library-12.jpg\" title=\"Select the audio source\" alt=\"Select the audio source\" width=\"550\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Now you can find your downloaded Spotify songs on Mac for free in the default directory if you don't change it and enjoy the songs with any players compatible with the recorded format. Otherwise, you can also set the output directory before the recording on General panel.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"tc\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p><a onClick=\"return hs.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/tutorial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/save-the-recordings-13.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/tutorial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/save-the-recordings-13.png\" title=\"Select the audio source\" alt=\"Select the audio source\" width=\"550\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>All in all, the two solutions mentioned here can help you for Spotify download music free Mac in completely different ways without any quality loss or any complicated operation. Leawo Prof. DRM for Mac is Spotify free music downloader that can remove DRM and get Spotify music downloaded for offline enjoyment without buying Spotify subscriptions. While Leawo Music Recorder for Mac is an excellent music recording program that can record any music, including Spotify of course, and save as common music files. In this way, there is no need to be a premium subscriber as well. Only if you can play the music of Spotify, you can record it and download from Spotify Mac for offline listening at anytime and on any music player. All you should do to enjoy Spotify music songs on Mac free is to be an expert by following the guide in this post on how to download music from Spotify Mac and feel free to try.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: \"Hello, I'd like to download Spotify songs on Mac for free. And I have always been the free subscriber on Spotify. However, there isn't the option to download the music for Spotify free users at all. How should I &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/entips\/how-to-download-music-from-spotify-on-mac-for-free-1372.html\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[432],"tags":[416],"class_list":["post-55828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-convert-spotify-music","tag-prof-drm"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":8143,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/entips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/entips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/entips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/entips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/entips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/entips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/entips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/entips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leawo.org\/entips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}