8 Free Spotify Playlist Downloader for Mac/Windows/iOS/Android in 2024

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April 15, 2024

Spotify is one of the most popular music streaming services with free and premium plan. Spotify Premium users can download playlists for offline listening. However, the downloaded playlists are DRM protected and can only be played within Spotify app.

If you want to transfer Spotify playlists to other device, burn them to CD, play Spotify on MP3 player or use Spotify in DJ app, or avoid losing access to your music, you need to download Spotify playlists to MP3 with a Spotify to MP3 converter. Here we will share you with 10 powerful Spotify to MP3 converter tools to download Spotify playlists to MP3 even without Spotify premium, no matter what device you use.

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Part 1. Professional Spotify Playlist Downloader

Pazu Spotify Converter is a professional Spotify Playlist Downloader that allows you to convert Spotify songs, playlists, or albums to MP3 at up to 10X faster speed.  With the built-in Spotify web player, you can easily download single songs or whole playlist/album to MP3 music directly from Spotify. This means that you are able to, for example, listen to Spotify music with your MP3 player and preserve the songs even after cancelling Spotify subscription. Besides, Pazu Spotify to MP3 Converter is also well-known for its lossless quality. The MP3 files are encoded at a top-quality bitrate of 320 Kbps.

Pros:

  • Download any songs, albums or playlists.
  • Download Spotify music without Premium.
  • Multiple output formats.
  • Opens the Spotify web player in an embedded browser.

How to download Spotify playlists with Pazu Spotify Converter?

Step 1. Run Pazu Spotify Playlist Converter

Download, install and launch Pazu Spotify Playlist Converter on your Mac or Windows. Log in Spotify account in the built-in Spotify web player.

Step 2. Choose output format

The default output format is M4A. Pazu Spotify Playlist Converter also supports MP3, AAC, FLAC, WAV, and AIFF. Click the gear icon on the top right corner to change output format or output quality. You can also change output folder and following:

  • Output File Name: Rename your downloaded songs with any combination of Title, Artist, Album, Track Number and Playlist Index.
  • Output Organized: Archive output songs by Artist, Album, Artist/Album or Album/Artist.
  • After Covnerting: None, Open the output folder or Put the computer to sleep.
  • Language: English, Deutsch, Español, Français, 日本語, 简体中文.

Step 3. Select Spotify playlist

Browse or search playlists you want to download from the built-in Spotify web player.

Click the Add to list button to load all songs in the playlist, uncheck the songs you don’t want to download if there are any.  Click “Show All” to toggle “Hide Converted” in case you have converted some songs in the past. Songs you have converted in the past will disappear in the list.

Step 4. Download Spotify playlist to MP3

Click Convert button to start downloading Spotify playlists to MP3 for offline playback on any device.

Part 2. Free Online Spotify Playlist Downloader

1. spotifydown.com

spotifydown.com is a simple online Spotify Song Downloader. SpotifyDown allows you to download tracks, playlists and albums from Spotify instantly. However, there isn’t a one-click button to download all or multiple songs in a playlist or album, you need to click respective button to download songs one by one.

How to use SpotifyDown? 
Here’s a simple tutorial how to use SpotifyDown: 
1. Open your Spotify App 
2. Find the song/album/playlist you’d like to download 
3. Click on the “3 dots” button. 
4. Click “Share” and then “Copy Link” button 
5. Open https://spotifydown.com, paste above copied link and press “Download” 
6. Find the song you want to download and click “Download” button on the right side.

Pros:
Free

Cons:
Download songs one by one. 
Song title is changed. 
Contains ads.

Related: Top 20 Spotify Playlists in 2024

2. spotify-downloader.com

spotify-downloader.com is a simple web tool that allows you to download songs, albums and playlists from Spotify. You can download songs by entering a track, album, or playlist link. You can also download the entire album or playlist in ZIP format. It also adds all the metadata like cover image, artists, and release date in the downloaded songs. However, songs are downloaded in 128kbps. Show, Podcast, and Artist page links aren’t supported yet.

  1. Open your Spotify app or web player.
  2. Find the track, album or playlist you would like to download.
  3. Click the “3 dots”.
  4. Select “Share” and click on “Copy link”.
  5. Paste the link above and click “Submit”.
  6. Wait for the tool to process.
  7. Click the “Download” button below a track you would like to download. 
    Or click “Download ZIP” button to download the full album or playlist.

Pros: Download a whole playlist or album.

Cons
Filename is changed. 
Only download 128kbps songs. 

3. SpotifyMate

SpotifyMate is a free tool helping you to download Spotify songs in MP3 online. Save Spotify songs with the best quality in an MP3 file format. This Spotify Music Downloader is completely free to use, fast and secure. No need to install any apps or extension, you only need a Spotify Track, Playlist, Album link to paste in the input field on SpotifyMate Spotify Music Downloader website and download MP3 file format.

Pros:
Free

Cons:
Convert Spotify to mp3 in 128kbps.
Can only download songs one by one.
Too many ads.
Wrong ID3 tags.

4. spotisongdownloader.com

spotisongdownloader.com is also a website that allows you to download Spotify songs, albums and playlists to mp3 in 320Kbps. It is compatible with popular browsers like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Opera, and all Chromium-based browsers. You can use it on Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS, and Android with internet connection.

Pros:
Save entire playlist/album to a ZIP – Paid feature.
Download MP3 song from 64 to 320kbps.

Cons:
Click 3 times to download a song.

5. VK Music Saver – Скачать с ВК

VK Music Saver – Скачать с ВК is a completely free extension for Google Chrome browser, which allows you to save your favorite audio files from music resources like Spotify, Deezer, Soundcloud. With this extension, everyone can save high-quality music in one click and in just a few seconds. To use this extension, you need a VK ID.

However, Spotify developers blocked downloads from website via extensions like this, so it may become unavailable at any time. Similar extensions like Spotify™ & Deezer™ Music Downloader has disappeared for a long time.

Part 3. Free Spotify Playlist Downloader for Mac/Windows PC

1. spotube

spotube is an open source, cross-platform Spotify client for Mac, Windows, Android, which utilizes Spotify’s data API and YouTube, Piped.video or JioSaavn as an audio source to get Spotify premium free.

Features of spotube:

  • Block Spotify ads
  • Match and download Spotify songs from YouTube.
  • Control playback locally
  • Time synced lyrics
  • Cross-platform support

How to download Spotify songs with spotube?

  1. Download, install and run spotube on your Mac or Windows PC.
  2. Log in with your Spotify account.
  3. Choose songs and download.

However, songs are matched and downloaded from YouTube with lower quality – M4A in 128kbps. If you want to download Spotify music in higher quality 320kbps MP3 or 256kbps M4A, we strongly recommend Pazu Spotify Converter.

Cons: Some songs download fine, but others don’t.
Sometimes it plays the wrong song entirely.
Works slowly.

Part 4. Spotify Playlist Downloader for Android

1. Fildo

Fildo app is an mp3 downloader and streaming application that lets you stream top-quality mp3 from around the world. One of the major advantages of Fildo compared to other similar applications is that it allows you to import and download Spotify and NetEase playlists. Fildo does not host any mp3 files, it’s just an interface to third party mp3 search engines. It matches your Spotify songs with MP3 songs from third party mp3 search engines and allows you to download songs. However, the download speed is very slow.

How to download MP3 songs from Spotify on Android with Fildo?

Step 1. Install Fildo from the official website and launch it on your Android mobile.

Step 2. Tap More – IMPORT SPOTIFY.

Step 3. Sign in to your Spotify account, select Spotify playlists you want to import.

Step 4. Choose high matching or normal. Fildo does not host any mp3 files, it matches the Spotify songs from third party mp3 search engines.

Step 5. Once your playlists or songs are successfully imported into Fildo, you can tap the three dots icon and start to download music from Spotify.

Cons: Many ads. 
Some songs are not matched. 
Load times are long.

Part 5. Spotify Playlist Downloader for iOS

Currently there is no standalone app that allows you to download Spotify playlist to mp3 directly on iOS devices. Alternatively you can use Pazu Spotify Converter to download Spotify playlists to MP3 and then sync them to your iOS device.

Spotify Premium cracked version Spotify++ can only provides partial Spotify premium features, such as ad-free, on-demand playback and unlimited skips. However, it can’t download Spotify playlist on iOS.

Spotify playlist downloader currently not working

1. SpotiFlyer

SpotiFlyer is a music downloader available for Android, Mac, Windows, Linux that allows you to download music from Spotify, JioSaavn, Gaana, and Youtube music. However, it downloads songs from YouTube instead of Spotify. So it often only downloads the audio of YouTube music video and not the proper song, or just downloads the wrong song in the first place.

Unfortunately, SpotiFlyer is no longer updated. We have tested the latest version but it doesn’t work.

Pros:
Free

Cons:
Low bitrate

How to convert Spotify to MP3 with SpotiFlyer?

  1. Download and install SpotiFlyer on your Mac/Windows/Linux/Android from the official website.
  2. Open Spotify app or web player, copy and paste the song, album or playlist to SpotiFlyer.
  3. Tap or click Search.
  4. Download the songs you want to download from the result.

2. AllToMP3

Update: The latest version 0.3.19 is not working for Spotify. Downloading by title search or Spotify URL is broken for now. You may wait for the new update to come.

AllToMP3 is a MP3 music downloader tool for Mac, Windows and GNU/Linux that allows users to download YouTube, SoundCloud and Spotify music in MP3.

3. Soundloaders

Soundloaders used to be a simple online web tool that allows you to download every Spotify songs to MP3 files. It’s compatible with desktop and mobile browsers. All the metadata like cover image, artists, and release date are added in the downloaded songs if they have been found. Soundloaders can only detect song link. You can’t use it to download the whole playlist or album. Later it replaced the web tool with free application for Mac and Windows. Unfortunately curently it doesn’t work.

Summary

We have listed several different Spotify downloader tools above. All of these great tools can help you download Spotify to MP3 for offline listening with either Spotify free or premium account. Which one is your favorite? Depends on your own needs.

If you only want to get a segment for ringtone or alarm sound, try Ondesoft Audio Recorder or Aimersoft Music Recorder. If you want to download multiple songs or playlists in batch, try Pazu Spotify Converter. Besides, they supprt different fotmats, choose the right one based on the output format you want.