It’s easy to take Spotify for granted, until the streaming speed is slow or the lack of internet connection prevents you from listening to some songs or catch up with your favorite podcast. Luckily, Spotify now allows you too download music and podcasts to your smartphone or computer so you can continue listening even offline. Thand option it is very useful if you go ahead a long drive areas with irregular mobile service. Listening to downloaded content instead of streaming it from Spotify servers also helps reduce monthly data usage.
You can download content to Spotify’s Android, iOS, Mac, and Windows apps or from the Spotify web player, but download privileges vary by account type:
- Spotify Premium users can download complete playlists and podcast episodes.
- Free users can download podcasts.
Unfortunately, Spotify does not allow you to download everything albums or even specifics tracks; yYou must first save the songs you want to download to a playlist. That said, yesYou can download as many playlists and podcasts as your device will allow.
The downloaded content will be stay in the Spotify library offline for as long as you want, but you’ll need to connect to the Spotify server at least once every 30 days to verify your account status. If not, your access to the downloaded songs will expire.
How to download audio content from Spotify
On the desktop (Mac, Windows, web)
- Open the Spotify desktop app, or go to open.spotify.com.
- Sign in and make sure your device is connected to the Internet.
- To download music: Open a playlist and activate “Download” button on
- To download a podcast: Click the down arrow button next to the episode name.
- Wait for the downloads to complete. The downloaded content is saved in the library and will show a green arrow.
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If you still don’t see the download option in the desktop app, make sure you’re running the latest version of the app that you can get. And then wait; from this writing, Spotify is still being implemented the feature.
Mobile (Android, iOS)
- Open the Spotify app and make sure you’re connected to wifi or mobile data (Note: Dmobile charging itself will affect your mobile plan data limits.)
- Open a playlist or podcast you want to download.
- On Android: Tap the button “Download” switch.
- IOS: Tap the down arrow icon.
- Downloaded songs and podcasts will show a green check mark. You can access all offline content from “Your library” card.