Part 1. How to Download Spotify on Mac (Spotify for Mac App)
When it comes to using Spotify on Mac, there are two ways provided by Spotify. One is via the Spotify Web Player, the other is installing the Spotify for Mac app. But here, why we should get a Spotify download for Mac instead? The reasons are listed below:
1. Music Quality. Spotify Web Player and Spotify for Mac provide different music quality based on your plan. With a free account, you can get 128 kbps in the web player, while getting 160kbps in the desktop app. If you upgrade your plan, you can get 256 kbps bitrate via browser, but 320kbps on Spotify app for Mac. In short, the Spotify app for Macbook offers higher quality.
2. Offline Listening. There is a common perception that all Spotify users can get online listening only via the Spotify Web Player. To listen to Spotify offline, it's an essential section to download Spotify for Mac. Up to now, let's see how to download Spotify on Mac.
How to Download Spotify App for Mac
Spotify Download Mac Mp3 Player
Step 1. After you sign up for a Spotify account, it will pop up a prompt to authorize downloading Spotify for Mac.
Ondesoft Spotify Music Converter is a professional Spotify playlist downloader. It allows both Premium and free subscribers to easily download any Spotify playlists, songs or albums on Mac or Windows. The output format includes MP3, M4A, WAV abd FLAC. Then you can enjoy the downloaded Spotify playlists anywhere you like, such as iTunes, Google. If you wish to download Spotify music on your Mac and also want to keep them forever or remix Spotify music, you'd better to download Spotify music to plain MP3 format from protected OGG format. But most of third-party software are simply recording tool with limited output audio quality and 1:1 recording speed.
Step 2. If not, you need to visit Spotify's official website and click the 'Download Now' button.
Step 3. Please click the 'Allow' for the Spotify download to start in the pop-up section.
Step 4. Please double-click the installation file to unzip the Spotify installer in the 'Download' folder.
Spotify is a popular music streaming service which gives everyone easy access to over 30 million songs on multiple devices like Mac, Windows, iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Android phones and tablets. It provides free and premium subscription. With premium subscription ($9.99 pre month or $14.99 per month for family), you can enjoy high quality streaming (320kbit/s) without ads interruption and download playlists for offline listening. Free subscribers can't download Spotify music. They can only listen to the Spotify music online with network connection.
You may wonder is there any tool that allows everyone to download Spotify music, even without premium account? Well, what you need is a spotify downloader. Spotify Downloader is an app that allows you to download any Spotify songs, albums or playlists from any Spotify account, whether premium or free. The downloaded Spotify songs are saved in plain formats, such as mp3, which means you can enjoy the songs anywhere outside Spotify app, such as on your iTunes, Google Play Music, iPod or Sandisk mp3 players.
Here we will introduce you 5 free Spotify downloader tools that you can use to download any Spotify songs, albums or playlists on Mac or Windows for offline listening.
Spotify Download Mac Mp3 Downloader
1. Spotiload (former Spotify Vk Downloader)
Spotiload (former Spotify Vk Downloader) is a free Google Chrome extension which allows users to download Spotify songs. It finds and downloads Spotify tracks from vk.com with matching name from any Spotify playlist. Vk. com is a socila network where users can upload own mp3 files to website and name them as they like. Log in to vk.com and go to Spotify page, now you can use Spotiload tool button to select and download tracks you'd like to find on vk.com.
Pros:
Free
Cons:
Injects and replaces ads into multiple websites without warning.
Requires a vk.com account.
Only songs on the VK site can be downloaded.
Doesn't work on songs that have multiple artists.
2. Spotify & Deezer Music Downloader
Spotify & Deezer Music Downloader is also a Google Chrome extension for you to save Spotify & Deezer Tracks from Spotify and Deezer WebPlayer. You can download music from the Spotify Web player directly, extension adds a download button to web player interface. Same as Spotiload, Spotify & Deezer Music Downloader doesn't download songs from Spotify directly. It uses multiple mp3 libraries to search through and download Spotify music files from. A certain amount of tracks are missing in the libraries, therefore, some Spotify tracks won't be downloaded.
Pros:
Free
Cons: Only download every single songs one by one.
Some songs can't be downloaded.
3. iScream (Mac)
iScream is a freeware voice recording application for Mac OS X. It is designed to record audio from a microphone, line-in or any other input audio device. Click its icon in the dock to start or stop the recording. Ansi asq z1 4 2003. It supports 3 formats: MP3, AAC and WAV.
Pros: Easy to use.
Cons: can't obtain ID 3 tags.
Have to manually start and stop recording of each song.
Can't skip ads in Spotify Free.
4. Audacity (Mac&Windows)
Audacity is a free, easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. The interface is translated into many languages.
Pros: Audio Recorder and editor all in one.
Cons: Can't obtain ID 3 tags.
Have to manually start and stop recording of each song.
Can't skip ads in Spotify Free.
Complicated interface.
5. AllToMP3 (Mac&Windows)
AllToMP3 is perhaps the most user-friendly Spotify downloader among the free ones. It allows you to download and convert Spotify music to 256 kb/s MP3 with tags, cover and lyrics! Just copy&paste the link of the song, album or playlist to the top area, click Enter on your keyboard and the downloading begins. This app doesn't actually download from Spotify, it just searches the songs on YouTube and download them from there. If the Spotify songs you want to download aren't on YouTube, there isn't much you can do.
Pros: Keep ID3 tags.
Cons: Download only the first 100 songs in a playlist.
Downloads songs from the internet with titles from Spotify.
May download wrong songs.
Free software always has kinds of problems. If you want a stable Spotify music downloader that can save your time and energy, try Boilsoft Spotify Music Converter for Mac or Boilsoft Spotify Music Converter for Windows. Boilsoft Spotify Music Converter is designed for you to quickly and easily download Spotify music in MP3, M4A, WAV and FLAC with 100% original quality. Whether you are free or premium subscriber, you can use it to download Spotify songs.
Pros:
Download as many Spotify playlists as you like at a time.
Customize music quality as you like.
Drag&drop playlists.
4 output formats: mp3, m4a, wav and flac.
Cons:
Spotify app will be used during downloading.
Tutorial on downloading Spotify music with Boilsoft Spotify Converter.