Free Spotify Music Downloaders for Mac

It’s cool to have these music streaming services where we can access million of songs on computers, mobile phones and tablets. With Spotify, you even don’t need to spend a penny to access the million of songs. However, you can only stream the songs when there is internet connection, if you want to download Spotify songs for offline listening, you need to subscribe to Spotify Premium, which costs $11.99 per month. So you may wonder is there any free ways to download Spotify music? The answer is yes. Here we will introduce you 3 free Spotify music downloaders that can download Spotify songs, albums and playlists from any Spotify user account.

2 Free Spotify Music Downloaders

spotifydown.com

SpotifyDown(https://spotifydown.com) online tool designed to allow users to download songs, albums, and playlists from Spotify online. It is very simple to use. Copy and paste the URL of the song, album, or playlist you want to download to the search area of this online tool and it will take care of the rest. With Spotify Downloader, you can effortlessly save the songs to your computer or mobile device for offline playback.

How to use SpotifyDown?

Open Spotify App or web player(https://open.spotify.com/).
Find the song / album you'd like to download.
Click on the "3 dots" button.
Click "Share" and then "Copy Link" button.
Visit https://spotifydown.com.
Paste copied link to the search field and press "Download"
Wait for the processing to finish and click "Download" button

Pros : free
Cons : spotifydown.com is added to the filename.
Too many ads.

Spotify Music Downloader

Similar online Spotify downloader tools also include spotify-downloader.com, spotifymate.com, etc.

Spotube

Spotube is an open source client for Spotify and YouTube. Available on Window, Mac and Android, you can use it to stream and download songs in m4a format. It uses Spotify to grab additional data such as lyrics, playlist information, and more and search for alternative track source across Youtube Music and Youtube. Spotube uses Youtube's public API to find the matching track, then play and download. This is not downloading directly from Spotify. However, although the songs are downloaded in M4A format, they can't be played with Music, whic is weird.

Note that if you download too many songs,your IP can get blocked on YouTube, which means you can't use YouTube (even if you're logged in) for at least 2-3 months from that IP device.

Pros : free
Download Spotify to M4A on Mac.
Cons : can't obtain ID 3 tags.
Downloaded songs can't be played with Music app.

Professional Spotify music downloader

The above 2 free Spotify downloader are not downloading directly from Spotify. They grab spotify music from a different source and download them with Spotify ID3 tags. If you want a real downloaders out there, Ondesoft Spotify Converter is suggested here. Ondesoft Spotify Music Recorder is not free, but worth the money.

Ondesoft Spotify Music Recorder download all songs, albums and playlists you want at a time. Just drag&drop them to the interface and click 'Convert'. Leave it alone and check back when the downloading finishes. Ondesoft Spotify Music Recorder supports downloading Spotify music in 320kbps in 4 formats: MP3, M4A, WAV and FLAC. All songs ID3 tags will be preserved. You can also set quality for the downloaded songs.

How to Download Spotify music with Ondesoft Spotify Music Converter? Here is a step-by-step tutorial.

Step 1 Run Ondesoft Spotify to MP3 Converter

Download, install and run Ondesoft Spotify Music Downloader on your Mac. Follow the on-screen instructions to log in your Spotify account, either free or Premium.

Step 2 Set output settings (optional)

Click the Options button to change the output format, output folder, volume, etc. Ondesoft Spotify Converter will download Spotify song in the original format by default. You can also select MP3, M4A, AAC, FLAC, WAV and AIFF according to your needs.