How to Download Music from Spotify to Phone

“I’m a premium subscriber. I can download Spotify music for offline listening, but I can’t find the music file on my phone. I’m wondering whether the downloaded Spotify song can somehow end up on my phone. I’d like to set it as my ringtone.”

Spotify is one of the most popular music streaming services around the world, which offers a wide range of tunes for you to select from. If you are a premium subscriber, you are allowed to download music from Spotify so that you can listen to your favorite songs without an internet connection. It’s an excellent feature to fulfill Spotify users’ need to enjoy Spotify songs without consuming extra data when Wi-Fi is unavailable.

Before you become too excited, you must realize that though you can listen to Spotify songs offline, you don’t own the music, as they are downloaded as temporary cache files on your phone. If you’d like to set a Spotify song as the ringtone, share the music with your friends via Bluetooth or for any other purposes, you should look for a way to download the music from Spotify to your phone as a local file.

We provide you with the best solution in this article. As it’s impossible to directly download Spotify songs to your local drive, you must turn to a third-party music tool to make it. To save your time, we’ve compared and selected the best one for you – Sidify. It’s one of the most popular brands in the mixed market.

Part 2: How to Download Music from Spotify to Phone

Currently, Sidify offers Windows & Mac version. You can use Sidify to download Spotify songs to your local computer and then transfer the converted music to your mobile phone.

For Mac users, please refer to How to Download Spotify Playlists on Mac.

Download Spotify Songs to Computer with Sidify

Sidify enables you to download Spotify songs to your Macbook or PC with four simple steps.

Before you move to the step-by-step tutorial, please make sure you’ve had both Spotify and Sidify Music Converter well installed on your computer. And please do not open Spotify manually. Once you launch Sidify, Spotify would be opened automatically.

Step 1Add Spotify songs to Sidify

Launch Sidify Music Converter. Drag and drop songs from Spotify to Sidify. Or you can click the “Add” button on the interface and copy & paste the URL from Spotify to the program. Then click “OK” button to upload all the songs to Sidify.

Step 2Choose Output Settings and Customize Output Path

Click the “Settings” button on the upper right, where you can choose output format, output quality, output folder, how you’d like the output files to be organized and so on. If you’d like to save the songs from Spotify to computer as MP3 files, simply choose “MP3” as the output format here.

Step 3Export Spotify Songs to Local Computer

Click “Convert” button on the bottom right to start saving the target Spotify songs as local files. When the conversion is done, click “Converted” on the left column and you can see all the Spotify songs that have been successfully downloaded.

Since you’ve downloaded Spotify songs to your local computer, you can easily transfer them to your Android phones or iPhone as local files.

Transfer Downloaded Spotify Songs to Phone

There are many ways to transfer music from computer to your phone. Syncios
iOS & Android Manager is a worth-trying free and handy tool. Besides, it’s also capable of transferring other contents like photos, messages, contacts, etc. to your iPhone.

After connecting your phone to your computer, Syncios Manager will start recognizing the device. When it’s done, you can click Media < Add button to import music from computer to your phone.

Now you’ve got the Spotify songs on your phone, you can set them as ringtone right now.

Conclusion

With a premium subscription, you are allowed to download songs from Spotify for offline listening on your phone. However, the Spotify songs are not downloaded to your phone in a conventional way, instead, they are downloaded as cache files that can only be used within the Spotify app. If you’d like to download music from Spotify to your phone for other purposes, you can try Sidify Music Converter, a simple yet efficient tool to save your Spotify songs, albums or playlists as MP3/AAC/WAV/FLAC/AIFF/ALAC files.

Note: The trial version of Sidify Music Converter enables us to convert the first 1 minute of each audio file for sample testing, and you can unlock the time limitation by purchasing the full version.

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