How to Download Spotify Songs to External Hard Drive？

Love listening to Spotify playlists offline but running out of storage? If you've downloaded a bunch of songs, they can quickly fill up your device.

Want to free up space and enjoy your music on other devices? Learn how to transfer Spotify downloads to an external hard drive. We'll guide you through the process, whether you have Spotify Premium or not.

Can You Download Spotify Songs to External Hard Drive

Spotify Premium subscribers can download music for offline listening, but these downloads are encrypted and only playable within the Spotify app. This means you can't directly move downloaded songs to an external drive.

To keep your downloaded tracks, you'll need to connect to the internet at least once a month. This is how Spotify verifies that your subscription is still active. If you don't, your downloads will disappear. Downloaded songs will also become inaccessible if your subscription expires.

Want to back up your Spotify downloads to an external hard drive? Consider converting Spotify songs to MP3. This way, you can save your favorite tunes forever and play them on any device, without being tied to the Spotify app.

We recommend Ondesoft Spotify Music Converter for this task.

How to Download Spotify Songs to External Hard Drive

Ondesoft Spotify Music Converter is a professional Spotify playlist converter. It allows you to download high-quality MP3, M4A, WAV, or FLAC songs from Spotify, with either a Free or Premium account. Then you can transfer them to an external hard drive. During converting, the tool will preserve 100% original audio quality and ID3 tags.

Here is how you can download Spotify songs to an external drive with Ondesoft Spotify Music Converter.

1. Run Ondesoft Spotify Converter

Download, install and run Ondesoft Spotify Converter on your Mac or Windows. Log in your Spotify account with the built-in Spotify web player, whether free or premium.

2. Choose Output Format

Click on the Settings cogwheel from the top-right corner to select the output format. On Auto mode, it will save the file in M4A format. For MP3 and AAC, you can also set the output quality. You may also change the output folder, the title, and the organizing criteria.

3. Select Spotify Songs, Albums or Playlists

Browse songs, albums or playlists you want to download from the built-in Spotify web player. Click the Add to list button to load all songs in the album or playlist, uncheck the songs you don’t want to download if there are any.

4. Download Spotify Songs

Click the Convert button to download Spotify music to MP3 or the format you choose.

5. Transfer Downloads to an External Hard Drive

After conversion, click the Folder icon to quickly locate the DRM-free Spotify song. Free there, you can easily copy and transfer the downloaded songs to an external drive.