How to Download Music from Spotify to Computer [Updated]

Part 2. How to Download Songs from Spotify to Computer for Free Online

The free trial version of the above third-party Spotify music downloader for PC and Mac has a file length limitation. Under this circumstance, here, we will also introduce two easy-to-use free tools to you to download Spotify songs to computer free online.

How to Download Songs from Spotify to PC for Free via SpotifyMate

The first one is called SpotifyMate, a professional and free open-source Spotify playlist downloader online. Without any restriction, it works well to download Spotify playlist for free on PC and Mac from any web browsers.

However, a few points need to be explained in advance. As freeware, it features some disadvantages. For example, it sometimes crashes unexpectedly and the output quality of Spotify tracks could be lossy, only at up to 120 kbps. That’s to say, the listening experience could be bad. Besides, it requires to click the ‘Download’ button one by one to download a single Spotify song to computer. If you don’t matter, you can check the user tutorial of this software as follow:

Step 1. Navigate to SpotifyMate Spotify Downloader website and there is a file add box in the middle of the top of the site. Open the Spotify Web Player on your browser also and find favorite Spotify tunes that you’d like to download.

Step 2. Tap the item and click the ‘three-dots’ icon to choose ‘Share‘ > ‘Copy Track URL‘ button to copy the Spotify link. Go back to SpotifyMate Spotify Downloader, and then paste it to the address text bar. Then, please hit on the green ‘Download‘ button, SpotifyMate will automatically load Spotify songs in the playlist.

Step 3. Scroll down to find target Spotify songs, and click the green ‘Download‘ > ‘Download MP3‘ button to download songs from Spotify to laptop for free. To download another music, please tap the ‘Download Another Song’ button.

How to Download Music from Spotify to Computer Free via Apowersoft

Apart from the above approaches, here, we will turn up to the traditional music downloading way, which is using audio recording technology. One of the recommended online audio recorders could be Apowersoft Free Online Audio Recorder. It can not only record music from streaming music services, such as Spotify, Tidal, etc. via computer sound card but also record sound from a microphone.

If it’s the first time to use it, you will need to download a mini installer. After that, nothing needs to be done, and you can visit this website and start to download songs off Spotify to laptop. By the way, there is only MP3 output option available and the Spotify audio quality could be only 160 kbps.

Step 1. Press the big ‘Start Recording‘ icon and then select the audio source as the System Sound. It only supports saving Spotify as MP3. You don’t need to customize output audio parameters.

Step 2. Open the Spotify app or Spotify Web Player to play Spotify songs. At the same time, please click the ‘Start‘ button to start the downloading process.

Step 3. You can hit on the ‘Pause‘ or ‘Stop‘ options to control the process of downloading music to computer from Spotify for free online. After that, you can find all Spotify downloads in the output directory by clicking the ‘Show in Folder‘ button.