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The Best Podcasts on Spotify and How to Download Them as MP3


Spotify quickly becomes people's favorite streaming music service to enjoy and download music on a computer or smartphone. At the same time, Spotify is also one of the best places where you can listen to or download some of the best podcasts. So if you are a Spotify user, you do not need to spend extra time to find good podcasts from other platforms, just type the podcasts you want to listen to and you will find most of them on Spotify.


The following part shows a list of the best podcasts you can listen to on Spotify and shares extra tips on how to download these best podcasts from Spotify to MP3 so that you can enjoy them on the go.

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Part 1: The Best Podcasts on Spotify You Can't Miss

Here we list the best 14 podcasts you can enjoy on Spotify. Most of them gain much popularity from wide listeners, and you can have them to kill time or acquire knowledge in your spare time.

Stuff You Should Know

1. Stuff You Should Know

Like an encyclopedia telling us how things work. The show features Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant discussing topics and trying to get to the core of the information you need to know about them. Stuff You Should Know recognizes the gaps in most adult humans’ knowledge and fills you in with some great episodes.


Love + Radio podcast

2. Love + Radio

Features in-depth, otherworldly-produced interviews with an eclectic range of subjects, oral stories, and hidden life of people like robbers, erotic girls, voyeurs, and exiles...


Reply All podcast

3. Reply All

"'A podcast about the internet that is an unfailingly original exploration of modern life and how to survive it." - The Guardian. This show takes a more philosophical way to explore how people impact the internet and how the internet impacts us.


How I Built This podcast

4. How I Built This

Guy Raz dives into the stories behind some of the world's best-known companies. How I Built This weaves a narrative journey about innovators, entrepreneurs, and idealists—and the movements they built.


You Must Remember This podcast

5. You Must Remember This

The podcast is about the secret history, long-forgotten mysteries, and lesser-known figures of Hollywood's first century.



Under The Skin podcast

6. Under The Skin

In the podcast, Russell Brand interviews a variety of guests from "the world of academia, popular culture, and the arts." In the podcast, a variety of public figures and academics are interviewed.


A Very Fatal Murder podcast

7. A Very Fatal Murder

A Very Fatal Murder sends Onion Public Radio (OPR) correspondent David Pascall from New York City to the sleepy town of Bluff Springs, Nebraska to investigate the mysterious death of a 17-year-old girl, Hayley Price.


Upvoted by Reddit podcast

8. Upvoted by Reddit

Thousands of unique stories are happening on Reddit every day, propelling people and ideas to an audience of millions. But what happens after those posts go up? What happened leading up to it? Upvoted gives these stories.


99% Invisible podcast

9. 99% Invisible

Design is everywhere in our lives, perhaps most importantly in the places where we've just stopped noticing. 99% Invisible is a weekly exploration of the process and power of design and architecture. From award-winning producer Roman Mars.


Homecoming podcast

10. Homecoming

Homecoming centers on a caseworker at an experimental facility, her ambitious supervisor, and a soldier eager to rejoin civilian life — presented in an enigmatic collage of telephone calls, therapy sessions, and overheard conversations.


Welcome to Night Vale podcast

11. Welcome to Night Vale

Twice-monthly community updates for the small desert town of Night Vale, where every conspiracy theory is true. Turn on your radio and hide. Never listened before? It's an ongoing radio show. Start with the current episode, and you'll catch on in no time.


LOVE Life with Matthew Hussey podcast

12. LOVE Life with Matthew Hussey

Matthew Hussey is the world's leading dating expert for women. He is a New York Times bestselling author, a monthly relationship advice columnist for Cosmopolitan Magazine, and the resident love expert on The Today Show.


Hardcore History podcast

13. Hardcore History

In "Hardcore History" journalist and broadcaster Dan Carlin takes his "Martian", unorthodox way of thinking and applies it to the past. Dan Carlin takes some of the most famous characters in history as an example, and you will rethink how we look at the past.


PetaPixel Photography Podcast podcast


14. PetaPixel Photography Podcast

A twice-weekly podcast about the wonderful world of photography. It's a fusion of news, opinions, humor, and real-world experience.

Part 2: How to Download the Best Podcasts from Spotify to MP3

Wanna enjoy these best Spotify podcasts on the move, but only to find that you are not allowed to copy the stuff to other media players or portable devices? Now read on to learn how to download podcasts from Spotify to MP3 without Spotify Premium.

Here Sidify Music Converter is your best choice to download Spotify podcasts as plain audio formats including MP3, AAC, WAV, FLAC, AIFF, or ALAC with 100% original sound quality kept, thus you can transfer them to iPod, iPhone, and Android phones for offline enjoying.

Sidify Music Converter

Sidify Music Converter

  • okDownload Spotify songs or playlists to MP3, AAC, FLAC or WAV, AIFF and ALAC.
  • ok Keep 100% original audio quality of Spotify after conversion.
  • ok Convert Spotify Music at 10X faster speed.
  • ok Keep ID3 tags Run Sidify Music Converter and metadata to well organize the music library.
  • okBuilt-in "CD Burner", "Format Converter", "ID3 Editor", and "Audio Player".

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Tutorial on How to Download Spotify Podcasts to MP3 without Premium

This is a tutorial using Sidify Music Converter for Windows as a demo. If you are a Mac user, please kindly follow the steps in Download Spotify Podcasts to MP3 without Premium on Mac.

Step 1Choose Conversion Mode

Download and install Sidify Music Converter on your computer. Run the program, you'll be given the option to choose between two conversion modes: Spotify App and Spotify Webplayer. (>> App Mode vs Webplayer Mode)

choose conversion mode

Select the Spotify App mode to access the modern interface of Sidify as below. Spotify music app will be launched automatically.

Sidify Main interface

Step 2 Add Spotify Podcast

Click the "+" icon, then an adding window will pop up to indicate you adding Spotify tracks, playlists, or podcasts. You can search your favorite podcast on Spotify and drag & drop it to Sidify Music Converter. Or you can copy the podcast link or whole show link to the clipboard and then click "OK" to add the podcasts to the track view interface.

Add Spotify podcasts to Sidify

Step 3Choose MP3 as the Output Format

Click the Setting button button from the left-hand panel and choose the output format, output quality, output folder and conversion speed. Here you can choose the output format as MP3.

Choose MP3 as Podcasts Output Format

Step 4 Start Downloading Spotify Podcasts

Click the "Convert" button to start downloading Spotify podcasts to MP3. After Sidify Music Converter completes the downloading, you can click the Converted tab to check the well-downloaded Spotify podcasts.

Downloading and converting Spotify podcasts

Now you can feel free to enjoy for your favorite Spotify podcasts on multiple media players like VLC, iTunes, Quicktime player or Windows Media player. Or you can transfer these Spotify podcasts to MP3 players, iOS/Android mobile phones to enjoy them on the go.

Note: The trial version of Sidify Music Converter enables us to convert the first minute of each audio file for sample testing, you can purchase the full version to unlock the time limitation.

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