By Sarah ConnorUpdated on March 07, 2019

You won't be able to play the offline playlists without ads if you cancel your subscription, and they don't stay synced offline. You can add regular playlists but, without premium you can't sync offline. How to download Spotify Music for free without Premium. Generally, if you want to download songs from Spotify, you should pay for Spotify Premium. With a Premium subscription, songs can be downloaded easily onto your desktop. However, it is only available to download albums, playlists you follow, playlists you. If you want to download DRM-free Spotify songs, then subscribing to Spotify Premium is useless. Although the Premium subscribers can download Spotify playlist for offline playback on 3 devices, the downloaded Spotify songs is in OGG Vorbis format which added with DRM-protected(Digital Right Management) and stop any illegal piracy activity. How to download Music from Spotify without Premium？ Read in different languages: It's easy to download Spotify music for offline listening with Spotify Premium, but it costs $9.99 (or $4.99 for student premium and $14.99 for family premium) per month.

This article helps Spotify users to download music or playlist from Spotify to MP3, M4A, WAV and FLAC for free without premium, so that they can offline listen to Spotify music on any devices.

How can I download Spotify songs for offline playback without premium?

It is well known that Spotify is one of the most widely used music-streaming applications, which not only allows you listen to music, but also gives you the ability to create your own music and create your own personalized playlists.

Can You Download Spotify Playlists Without Premium Spotify

There are two kinds of membership of Spotify, including Free and Premium plans. With a Premium subscription, songs and playlists can be downloaded easily. So you could take your favorite playlists everywhere you go. But the premise is that you need to create an account and signed up for Spotify’s premium $9.99 membership service. What’s worse, the downloaded Spotify Premium files are DRM encrypted and can only be played using the Spotify application. If you want to download DRM-free Spotify songs, then subscribing to Spotify Premium is useless. Although the Premium subscribers can download Spotify playlist for offline playback on 3 devices, the downloaded Spotify songs is in OGG Vorbis format which added with DRM-protected(Digital Right Management) and stop any illegal piracy activity. Some people may ask how to download songs from Spotify without premium? How to free download Spotify music as MP3s? The best way for keeping Spotify music forever is to removing the DRM protection or recording Spotify music in MP3 format first.

Method 1: Download Spotify Music and Convert to DRM-free MP3

To break up the DRM protection from Spotify music, you will need UkeySoft Spotify Music Converter to remove Spotify with Free or Premium subscription. It works perfectly on converting DRM-protected Spotify music to DRM-free formats, like MP3, AAC, WAV, FLAC. Moreover, MP3 is widely supported audio format, after converting, you can enjoy the songs, albums and playlists anywhere you want or burn the downloaded Spotify songs to CD, play them on MP3 player, etc. With the help of Spotify Music Converter, you can directly download any Spotify music, including songs, albums, artists, and playlists to computer with lossless quality and super fast speed.

Tutorial: How to Download Spotify Music without Premium

Step 1.Download the Spotify Music Converter

Currently this software only supports Mac version. Download the UkeySoft Spotify Music Converter on your Mac/Windows computer, install and launch it to start.

Step 2.Import Music from Spotify

Whether free or premium, you can drag and drop any music file or playlist from Spotify to the interface directly.

Step 3.Choose Output Format

The default output format is MP3. Here you also can choose other format as AAC, FLAC or WAV and adjust output quality up to 320 kbps. You are able to change output format or output folder if you need by clicking “Option” button.

Note: The program allows you change bitrate, samplerate according to your needs.

Step 3.Download Music from Spotify without Premium

After all settings done, tap the “Convert” button to start removing DRM and downloading Spotify music to plain format with ID3 tags kept after conversion.

After conversion, you can enjoy your downloaded Spotify music anywhere anytime without any limits.

Above is guide to remove DRM from Spotify music and convert to MP3 by using a professional Spotify music converter. Aside from using the Spotify music converter tool, you can use Spotify music Recorder to rip MP3 audio from Spotify.

Method 2: Record Spotify Music as MP3

Screen Recorder also is a Spotify music recorder tool, you can record Spotify music as MP3 audio files easily. The auido recorder function enables you to record Spotify tracks instead of downloading them, after recording and downloading Spotify songs to MP3/WMA/AAC/M4A, you can listen to all your Spotify music offline on any device without ads. What’ s more, screen recording tool not only enables you record online music, streaming music, system sound and microphone voice, but also helps users record YouTube videos, capture webcam calls, make teaching tutorials, save video gameplay on Windows and Mac. Let’s shows you the detail guide to record Spotify songs to MP3 while playing music on Spotify web player or Spotify App.

Steps to Rip Spotify Music as MP3

Step 1.Launch Screen Recorder on the Computer

We provide Screen Recorder for Windows and Screen Recorder for Mac, please download, install and run the screen recording software on your computer, you will get a simple interface.

Click “Audio Recorder” function to record songs.

Step 2.Turn on “System Audio”

If you want to record music from Spotify while playing, please turn on “System Audio” and turn off the “Microphone” option.

Step 3.Choose Recording Output Format – MP3

Then go to setting option and select MP3 as output format, the recording tool also helps you record Spotify music as other format, such as WMA, M4A and ACC.

Step 4.Set Hotkeys

Next to “General”, you can change the hotkeys to start/stop recording, pause/resume recording audio tracks in “Shortcuts”.

Step 5.Start Ripping Spotify Music as MP3

Now, ready to play song on Spotify web player or Spotify app, then just click on “REC” button to start to ripping.

Note: You will need to play Spotify music during the whole recording and you won’t be able to use your PC unless the recording is finished.

Step 6.Listening and Save the Recording Songs

Click “Stop” button while the entire playback process is complete, before saveing the recording songs, you can listen to them. And if you are satisfied with the recording results, you can save the recorded Spotify music by clicking “ Save” button, if you don’t satisfied with the recording results, please click “Record again”.

Free download the Screen Recorder to rip Spotify music as MP3s.

Method 2 teachs you how to record Spotify songs as MP3, but this method has some shortcomings. For example, you will need to play songs on Spotify app or Spotify web player during the whole recording and you won’t be able to use your computer unless the recording is finished. What’s worse, the screen recorder won’t help you split songs automatically and it cannot save the ID3 tags of the Spotify music. So, we recommend you using the Spotify Music Converter if you want to get DRM-free music from Spotify.

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'Download podcasts on computer? - How can we download podcasts on the computer to listen to it offline (just like any song)? We can't add them to playlists either.'

'Download function for Podcasts for offline listening - Hi Spotify team, I find it weird that we can download podcasts on the Spotify Mobile App but not on the Spotify software on desktop. Can you please add this function to the desktop software the soonest possible please. I would like to be able to download podcasts on the desktop software as well please. Thank you.'

Actually this is weird since people could download Spotify podcasts on their mobile phone but have no way to download Spotify podcasts on computer for offline listening. Spotify currently has not provided a timing solution to this as well. So can you download Spotify podcasts on computer without Premium plan? Well, this guide would show you that the answer is exactly yes. And it will even show you how to download Spotify podcasts on computer so as to let you listen to Spotify music without Premium plan.

Part 1: Introduction to Spotify Podcast

As known to all, Spotify is an online, free music streaming service platform that offers millions of music, podcasts and videos from artists all over the world. People could listen to various kinds of music and podcasts on Spotify, even they are Free plan users. Also, people could browse and search for certain podcasts on Spotify for listening.

Spotify has been available on various devices including Microsoft Windows computer, Mac computer, Android smartphones and tablets, iOS devices (iPhone, iPad and iPod), and other devices. On these devices, Spotify has enabled people to freely listen to and download podcasts for offline listening. However, on desktop, Spotify has not enabled podcasts downloading without upgrading to Premium plan.

The below content would show you how to download Spotify podcasts on desktop with and without Premium plan.

Part 2: How to Download Spotify Podcasts with Spotify Premium

As mentioned above, we have learned that we can actually download Spotify podcasts on our mobile devices like iPhone and iPad. Firstly, let’s take a look at how to download Spotify podcasts with Premium on your mobile phones and tablets.

Note: this is applicable to mobile devices only and it requires you to upgrade to the Premium plan, which costs you $9.99 per month.

1. On your mobile phone, open the Spotify app.

2. Select a podcast episode to download and then to the right of it tap the 3 horizontal dots icon on iPhone/vertical dots icon on Android.

3. Top Download option and then the podcast episode will be automatically saved to Your Library.

4. You will know whether the downloading completes or not by viewing the downloaded symbol.

Now, whenever you’re not connected to the internet, or when your app is in offline mode, you can listen to this podcast episode in the app. Make sure that your device is WiFi connected.

Part 3: How to Download Spotify Podcast with Leawo Prof. DRM

Spotify has provided effective solutions for Premium users to download Spotify podcasts on mobile devices, but no direct solution for people to download Spotify podcasts on desktop, even people upgrade to the Premium plan. However, don’t get failed. Leawo has solution for you.

The solution is Leawo’s Prof. DRM, a professional yet easy to use Spotify downloader program for you. It could help you remove the DRM protection upon not only Spotify songs and then download and convert Spotify music to MP3, AAC, M4A, etc., but Spotify podcasts as well. You could even set the output podcasts’ audio channel, bit rate, and sample rate to guarantee the audio quality. What’s more, Leawo Prof. DRM doesn’t require you to upgrade to Premium plan to download Spotify podcasts.

Download and install Leawo Prof. DRM on your computer. And then follow the below steps to learn how to download Spotify podcasts without Premium.

Note: Make sure you have installed Spotify on computer and Internet connection is well established before you start to download Spotify songs with Leawo Prof. DRM.

Step 1: Add Spotify music to Prof. DRM

Launch Leawo Prof. DRM and it will automatically help you launch Spotify app (or relaunch it even you’ve already launched Spotify). Then directly drag and drop podcasts from Spotify desktop software on your computer to Leawo Prof. DRM.

Step 2: Set output format and audio parameters

Then click the pencil icon in each loaded Spotify music title to set output format and audio parameters. Choose output audio format and change the Channel, Sample rate, and Bit rate respectively. You could choose audio format including MP3, AAC, FLAC, WAV, etc. as you like. Click either 'Apply to All' or 'Apply to current' button to save these settings. 'Apply to All' is recommended for time saving.

Step 3: Set output directory

Then, move mouse to the bottom to set output directory in the “Output”. Make sure the target drive has enough space.

Step 4: Start to download and convert Spotify music

Now you could start to download and convert Spotify podcasts by clicking the blue “Convert” button at the bottom right corner

The DRM removal would happen in the background. When the downloading finishes, you could view all downloaded Spotify songs under the “Converted” tab. With Spotify songs downloaded, you could now transfer downloaded Spotify music to iOS with iTunes or iOS data transfer apps likeLeawo iTransfer, or directly copy and paste downloaded Spotify podcasts to Android devices for unlimited offline listening.

Part 4:How to Record Spotify Podcast with Leawo Music Recorder for Downloading

Alternatively, you could also use another Spotify podcast downloader tool to download Spotify podcast on computer. That’s Leawo Music Recorder, an easy-to-use audio recorder that could record any computer and built-in audio and then save into MP3 or WAV files as you like. As an online audio recorder, Leawo Music Recorder could record and download online audio to MP3file in simple clicks. Performing as Spotify podcast downloader, it could record and download Spotify podcast to local drive in MP3 or WAV format as well. Different from Leawo Prof. DRM, Leawo Music Recorder could help you automatically download and add music tags like artist, album, cover, etc. to downloaded Spotify songs. Also, it enables you to edit these music tags manually.

Download and install Leawo Music Recorder on your computer. Do as the following steps to learn how to record and download Spotify podcast without Premium.

Step 1: Set audio source

After launching Leawo Music Recorder, click on the tiny microphone icon on the bottom left corner, and then choose 'Record Computer Audio' option on the “Audio Source” window.

Step 2: Set output directory

Set output directory on the 'General' tab. Open the “Output” box to do this.

Step 3: Set output format

Thirdly, open the 'Format' tab to choose output format from MP3 audio and WAV audio according to your MP3 player. Adjust the audio bit rate and sample rate of output recording file if need be.

Step 4: Start to record and download Spotify songs

With all settings done, return to the main interface and then click the red 'Start' button. Then, play back Spotify podcasts on your Spotify app (either desktop app or web player. Just keep other source silent). This music recorder software would start to record automatically. You could view the recording process.

Note: It’s important to press the red recording button before you play back Spotify podcast. This will help you record a complete Spotify song. Meanwhile, make sure there is no other sound on your computer.

Leawo Music Recorder could perform as an excellent online audio recorder to help you record and download online sound with ease, as well as built-in audio recorder to record any sound out of your computer. With Leawo Music Recorder, you could record almost all sound your computer could capture into MP3 or WAV file for other uses. If you are using a Mac computer, you could turn to Leawo Music Recorder for Mac.

Part 5: Premium vs. Leawo Prof. DRM vs. Leawo Music Recorder.

Among these 3 methods for downloading Spotify podcasts, which one is the best? We could see clearly that Premium plan only allows you to download Spotify podcasts on mobile devices. It won't work if you are going to download Spotify podcasts on computer. Then, what are the advantages and disadvantages of the other 2 Spotify podcast downloader tools? We have made a comparison chart for you. Just check them below and get the points you need.

To sum up, Spotify Premium only allows you to download Spotify podcasts on mobile devices and actually it only downloads Spotify podcasts to Spotify itself. You can’t transfer the downloaded Spotify podcasts to other places for other uses like sending to friends or sharing online. However, Leawo Prof. DRM and Music Recorder could download Spotify podcasts to computer as local file for either unlimited offline playback, sending to friend, editing with audio editor, sharing online, etc. Leawo Prof. DRM directly downloads and converts Spotify music and podcasts to local drive via decoding and encoding, while Leawo Music Recorder downloads Spotify music and podcasts via recording. They adopt 2 different downloading methods, which results in difference in downloading speed. Leawo Prof. DRM requires much more less time than Leawo Music Recorder does.