"Can I download music to my MP3 player? - I just began using Spotify. Can I download music to my MP3 player directly or do I have to get it to Window Media Player? If I need to get music to WMP, how do I do that? Thanks." Asked by dugchevy on Spotify Communities.

“Premium and downloading as mp3 - So I have a few questions about a premium account: 1. Can i download songs i like as mp3 and play them anywhere? (Without the actual spotify software, for example in my car). 2. Is there DRM or anything like that? Will they work on my car radio (usb stick)? 3. What's the limit on this downloading?” by Robin from Spotify Communities.

Many Spotify users, especially those newbies, have the same requirements as the above ones. They want to download Spotify songs onto MP3 player so that they can listen to Spotify songs on portable MP3 player on the go. However, this isn’t feasible even you upgrade to the Premium version, which allows you to set Spotify songs for offline listening on different devices, but MP3 players are not included. Is there any way to transfer music from Spotify to MP3 player? Of course yes. Today, we would like to show you effective solutions on how to download music from Spotify to MP3 player. Just check the content below and learn how to put music on MP3 player from Spotify.

Part 1: Why Can't We Transfer Spotify Songs to MP3 Player Directly

Some people might wonder if the Premium plan of Spotify allows them to transfer music from Spotify to MP3 player as the Premium plan enables "Offline Mode" for Premium users to set Spotify songs for offline listening on portable devices. Actually, this is a misunderstanding. Let's get further into Spotify here.

Brief Introduction to Spotify

According to Spotify website, Spotify is a digital music, podcast, and video streaming service that gives you access to millions of songs and other content from artists all over the world. You could listen to over 35 million songs on Spotify. It has both Free and Premium versions, for free and $9.99 per month respectively. The Premium plan enables you to listen to Spotify songs without ads, and set Spotify songs as “Offline Mode” to let you listen to Spotify songs offline on up to 3 devices of platforms like iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, etc.

Does the “Offline Mode” mean downloading Spotify songs? Actually it doesn’t. When you set Spotify songs as “Offline Mode”, it will download the songs in a proprietary format which you can play back with your Smartphone, PC/Mac or iPod Touch using the Spotify Application. You can however not extract songs into other formats like MP3 for other players.

Spotify relies on a "closed system" in order to ensure artists are fairly paid for track plays. This means that a Spotify Premium subscription only gives you access to Spotify's massive catalogue, and the ability to download and play tracks offline inside the Spotify applications, not the ability to download tracks as mp3's.

This does mean, that you can only listen to Spotify content on devices which have a supported Spotify application, such as iOS, android, BlackBerry, Windows Phone 7/8 and Symbian (also on the desktop). If you wish to download tracks as mp3 files to transfer to windows media player or to a generic mp3 player, you need to turn to some 3rd-party Spotify song downloader tools, which are described below in detail.

Part 2: How to Download Spotify Songs to MP3 Player with Leawo Prof. DRM

As mentioned above, to put Spotify music on MP3 player, you need to download Spotify songs to MP3 audio files and then transfer the downloaded Spotify songs to MP3 player for on-the-move offline listening. And you need to make use of 3rd-party Spotify song downloader tools. Leawo Prof. DRM is the best Spotify song downloader you could get in the market.

As a professional DRM removal and Spotify music downloader software program, Leawo Prof. DRM could help you remove the DRM protection upon Spotify songs, albums and playlist, and then download and convert Spotify music to MP3, AAC, M4A, etc. for your MP3 players in batch. This Spotify music converter also enables you to adjust audio channel, bit rate, and sample rate for a better music quality output and offline Spotify music listening on your mobile devices.

Note: You have to download and install Spotify desktop software on your computer before you use this Spotify song downloader if you want to download and convert Spotify songs to MP3 players on your computer. If you want to download Spotify songs for MP3 player on Mac, download and install the Leawo Prof. DRM for Mac.

Introduce Spotify

Step 1: Add Spotify music to Prof. DRM

Launch Leawo Prof. DRM, and it will automatically launch Spotify desktop software. Directly drag and drop songs from Spotify to this Spotify song downloader for downloading.

add spotify music

If you want to download Spotify songs for MP3 player from web Spotify player, copy the playlist URL of your Spotify playlist, open the “Converted” tab on Leawo Prof. DRM to click the Spotify icon, then paste the URL into the browser bar to download Spotify playlist.

Add spotify song

Step 2: Set output format and audio quality

Click the pencil icon on each loaded Spotify song, and then set output format and audio parameters. Choose MP3 as output format, and change the Channel, Sample rate, and Bit rate. Check the “Apply to All” or “Apply to current” button to save and exit. “Apply to All” is recommended for time saving.

Choose M4A as the output format

Step 3: Set output directory

Then, move mouse to the bottom of this Spotify music downloader. Set output directory in the “Output” box at the bottom.

Set output format

Step 4: Start to download and convert Spotify songs

Finally, click the blue “Convert” button to start to download Spotify songs and convert Spotify songs for MP3 players. 

Choose  output directory

You could view the whole Spotify song downloading and converting process on the converting panel. Moreover, you could view the downloaded Spotify songs on the “Converted” tab.

With Leawo Prof. DRM, you could download and convert Spotify music to AAC, MP3, FLAC, M4A, etc. in batch. What’s more, you could use Leawo Prof. DRM could as iTunes M4V video converter to remove DRM protection from iTunes videos and convert iTunes DRM M4V to DRM-free MP4 video, Audible audiobook converter to convert iTunes audiobooks, iTunes DRM M4P music converter to convert iTunes DRM M4P music to DRM-free MP3, and eBook converter for Kindle, Kobo and ADE to convert DRM eBooks from Kindle, Kobo and Adobe Digital Edition.

Part 3: How to Download Spotify Songs for MP3 Player with Leawo Music Recorder

Besides Leawo Prof. DRM, you could also make use of Leawo Music Recorder to record and download Spotify songs for MP3 players. As an easy-to-use audio recorder, Leawo Music Recorder could record any computer and built-in audio and then save into MP3 or WAV files. When acting as Spotify song downloader, Music Recorder helps you record and download Spotify songs to MP3 or WAV files, with music tags like artist, album, cover, etc. automatically added to downloaded Spotify songs.

Download and install Leawo Music Recorder on your. Check the below steps to learn how to download Spotify songs for MP3 players with music tags added.

Step 1: Set audio source

Click on the tiny microphone icon. Under the "Audio Source" tab, choose "Record Computer Audio" option.

Edit output file (optional

Step 2: Set output directory

Go to the "General" tab to set output directory in the “Output” box. Make sure the target drive has enough space. You could also set UI language here.

Set directory for recordings

Step 3: Set output format

Thirdly, open the "Format" tab to choose output format from MP3 audio and WAV audio according to your MP3 player. Adjust the audio bit rate and sample rate of output recording file if need be.

Set recording audio source

Step 4: Start to record and download Spotify songs

Then, on the main interface, click the red "Start" button before you play Spotify songs on your computer. This music recorder software would start to record and download Spotify songs immediately, with music tags automatically downloaded. You could view the recording process.

Start to record Spotify music

Note: It’s important to press the red recording button before you play back Spotify songs. This guarantees completeness of downloaded Spotify songs.

Leawo Music Recorder would automatically help you add and complete the music tags like artist, album, genre, cover, etc. However, the internal music tag editor enables you to edit these music tags manually. You could right click target recordings and then choosing “Edit Music Tags” option to do these.

Manage recordings

When the recording and downloading process finishes, you could then move the downloaded Spotify songs to your MP3 players for unlimited offline listening.

 Leawo Music Recorder could perform as an excellent online audio recorder to help you record and download online songs with ease, as well as built-in audio recorder to record any sound out of your computer.

Part 4: How to Transfer Downloaded Spotify Songs to MP3 Player

With desired Spotify songs downloaded to local drive in DRM-free audio files, you could now freely transfer downloaded Spotify songs to MP3 players. It is quite easy to do these:

1. Connect your MP3 player to computer.

2. Go to the folder that saves downloaded Spotify songs.

3. Copy and paste the downloaded Spotify songs to MP3 player.

4. Disconnect your MP3 player from computer.

Now, you could listen to the downloaded Spotify songs on your MP3 player on the go.

Both Leawo Prof. DRM and Music Recorder help you remove DRM protection from Spotify songs and download Spotify songs to MP3 player files in local drive. We can see that obviously Leawo Prof. DRM performs better job in downloading Spotify songs for MP3 player, which could download Spotify songs, albums and even playlists in batch in short period. Leawo Music Recorder would cost your much more time since it has to record the original Spotify songs for downloading, but it adds music tags for downloaded Spotify songs. Meanwhile, no matter you are Free or Premium user of Spotify, Leawo Prof. DRM downloads Spotify songs without ads, but you have to skip those ads when you are recording Spotify songs with Leawo Music Recorder if you are a Free plan user. 

Leawo Video Converter is the best video and audio converter that you could use to convert downloaded Spotify file to MP3 or other audio formats like WAV, AAC, AIFF, etc. Being a professional video converter tool, Leawo Video Converter enables you to convert video and audio files between hundreds of video and audio formats, including MKV to MP4, MKV to AVI, MP4 to MOV, MP4 to MP3, MKV to MP3, etc. You could even make use of the internal audio editor to remove noise and trim audio length.