Spotify, the King in the music streaming world, is a freemium service, available on a wide range of platforms, including Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Chromebook, Android and iOS. You can sign up as a free member or upgrade to become a premium user. Spotify Free users can access its entire music library - over 100 million songs, while Spotify Premium users are empowered with more additional features.
Spotify Premium subscribers can access ad-free songs, listen to Spotify in higher audio quality, download playlists from Spotify for offline streaming, etc. Plenty of Spotify Free users upgrade to the Premium plan to get the Download feature. How can we download a playlist from Spotify to a computer? This article is for Mac users, and we are going to explain how to download Spotify a playlist to Mac step by step.
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Spotify makes it easy to download music from Spotify for offline playback. For a Mac user, just open the Spotify app, go to the playlist you want to download and then switch Download on. Once the download is successful, you can stream the playlist offline anytime. Yet the Spotify downloads are saved in the cloud only and restricted to be played with the Spotify app. You can’t copy or export them for use on other devices.
Is there any way to download Spotify playlists to a Mac computer as local files? Definitely yes! We are going to provide you with a simple & 100% working solution right away. By the following method, you can not only get Spotify downloads, but also keep the Spotify downloads forever, copy & paste the Spotify downloads, transfer the Spotify downloads to a USB or any other device.
Sidify Music Converter for Mac is a tool specially designed for Spotify Mac users. It’s fully compatible with macOS 10.15-14 Sonoma. No matter you are a Spotify Free user or a Spotify Premium subscriber, you can use it to download and convert a song, an album or a playlist from Spotify to MP3/AAC/WAV/FLAC/AIFF/ALAC. This tool is popular among a great number of DJs, as it keeps original audio quality and retains ID3 tags after conversion.
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If you want a tool to convert any streaming music (including Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Tidal, Deezer, YouTube, YouTube Music, SoundCloud, DailyMotion …) to MP3, Sidify All-In-One is the go-to choice.
Sidify Music Converter for Mac must work with the Spotify app. Please make sure you’ve installed the Spotify app on your Mac before running Sidify. As MP3 is one of the most widely used audio formats, below we are going to demonstrate how to download a Spotify playlist to MP3 on your Mac computer step by step. You can apply the same method to convert your Spotify playlists to other popular formats, such as WAV, AAC, FLAC, ALAC, AIFF, etc.
Step 1Choose Conversion Mode
Download, install and launch Sidify Music Converter for Mac. You'll be given the option to choose between two conversion modes: Spotify App and Spotify Webplayer. (>> App Mode vs Webplayer Mode)
Select the Spotify Weplayer mode to access the modern interface of Sidify as below. By enabling this mode, you can download music at a lightning-fast speed that is 10 times faster than the standard rate.
Step 2Add a Playlist from Spotify to Sidify
To add songs to the conversion panel, go to any playlist in the Spotify webplayer window and click the "Click to add" button.
Then you can check the music that you need to convert and press "Add" button.
Step 3Choose MP3 as the Output Format
Click the gear icon on the left-hand panel of Sidify. Here you can choose the output format (MP3/AAC/WAV/FLAC/AIFF/ALAC), select the output audio quality (128kbps, 192kbps, 256kbps, 320kbps), specify the output folder, etc.
Step 4Convert Spotify Playlist to MP3
Click the Convert button and Sidify would immediately start downloading and exporting the Spotify playlist as .mp3 files. It may take a while till the conversion is completed.
Step 5Find the MP3 Downloads on Mac
Click the Converted tab and you can check the Spotify songs that have been downloaded successfully. By default, the output folder would pop up once the conversion is done. If not, go to the output folder set in Step 3, and you’ll find all the MP3 downloads on your Mac computer.
It’s rather easy to download a playlist from the Spotify app to your Mac computer for offline streaming. The Spotify downloads are saved as cache files in the cloud and you can stream them offline whenever you want, but you can’t copy or export them for use on other devices.
If you want to save playlists from Spotify as local files on your Mac, Sidify Music Converter for Mac is the solution. It’s an easy-to-use tool that can help you download Spotify songs, albums and playlists as MP3/AAC/WAV/FLAC/AIFF/ALAC files, fully supporting macOS 10.15-14 Sonoma.
Note: The free trial version of Sidify Music Converter enables us to convert the first minute of each audio file for sample testing, you can unlock the time limitation by purchasing the full version.
Important Notes
Sidify strictly complies with the US copyright regulations. We adopt a leading technology to record the unencrypted audio data which is outputted to the system sound device, with the highest quality.
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