Summary
How can you download albums from Spotify to computer? This article teaches you how to download Spotify albums to computer with or without Premium. You can even download Spotify albums as MP3 files to your local computer so that you can keep you favorite albums forever and listen to them offline anywhere!

Q1: “I know how to download albums on Spotify desktop app. But how do I save albums on Spotify desktop app? I want to save album from Spotify to PC to listen offline. Any suggestion?”

Q2: “How do I download albums on Spotify for free? I want to cancel the subscription. Is it possible to download and save Spotify albums to my Macbook forever?”

As the king of music streaming service, Spotify always provide the best music contents and service for users. If offers Free and Premium plan. With the Spotify Free plan, you create your own playlists, play any playlist, album, or artist in Shuffle Play mode. For better music quality and saving your data on mobile, you can upgrade to Premium plan which allows you to save your songs, albums and playlists to your PC or Mac, iPhone, Android and other mobile devices for offline listening. In the latest article, we guided you how to download Spotify playlists to PC. Today, we are going to show you how to download albums from Spotify to computer with or without subscription.

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Method 1. Download Albums from Spotify to Computer with Premium

Can you download Spotify albums? Yes! Spotify Premium subscribers can download music, playlists, albums and artists from Spotify to the desktop or mobile devices for offline listening. However, only mobile users can download an album on Spotify. To download Spotify albums to computer, you need to create a playlist with the albums in it. You can follow the detailed steps to download albums from Spotify on desktop.

Step 1. Created a Playlist on Spotify Desktop App
First of all, open Spotify desktop app, and login with your Premium account. Next, click “New Playlist” to creates a playlist and name it.

create a spotify playlist

Step 2. Put Spotify albums in the Playlist
You can’t download albums directly without putting an album in a playlist. So you need to put the Spotify albums or the tracks into the new created playlist.

Step 3. Download Spotify albums to Computer
Click on the playlist where Spotify albums are stored in the left side. Then tap “Download” button to download the Spotify albums to your computer.

download spotify albums on computer

Now you can listen to your favourite Spotify albums on desktop in Offline Mode, but only within subscription period. Why? Please keep reading!

Method 2. Save Album from Spotify to PC & Mac Forever without Premium (Best)

Why Can’t We Really Download Albums from Spotify to Computer?
As we all know, Spotify music is a subscription-based streaming music service, for which all songs, albums, artists, and playlists on Spotify are protected by DRM. The downloaded Spotify albums and songs will not be saved as local files, but cached files, you don’t actually own these songs. Once you cancel the subscription, you will no longer be able to play the downloaded Spotify albums offline. Worse, Spotify’s DRM doesn’t allow you to transfer Spotify albums or tracks to MP3 player, nor burn Spotify albums to CD, etc.

To keep Spotify album, songs and playlist forever and make them playable on any device without restrictions, you need to use a third-party tool to crack Spotify DRM and convert Spotify albums to MP3, M4A or other common formats. Here we going to apply the most popular Spotify Album Converter – TunesBank Spotify Music Converter.

Best Spotify Album Downloader & Converter

TunesBank Spotify Music Converter is a professional Spotify Music Downloader & Converter tool specially designed for Spotify Free and Premium users. It not only can help to remove DRM and ads from Spotify, but also enables you to download Spotify albums, songs, playlists and artists for free. What’s more, it is able to convert Spotify songs, albums and playlist to MP3, M4A, FLAC, WAV at 320kbps high quality.

Amazingly, it can convert Spotify albums to MP3 at 5X fast speed with lossless music quality while keeping the ID3 tags after conversion. In this way, you’ll be able to save Spotify albums, tracks and playlists on computer forever and listen to Spotify offline on any device, such as MP3 players, Sony Walkman, iPod Nano, SanDisk MP3 player, PSP, Xbox, iOS, Android, etc.

Features of TunesBank Spotify Album Converter:

  • Easily remove ads and DRM protection from Spotify music.
  • Download songs, albums, artists and paylists from Spotify for free.
  • Convert Spotify songs/albums/paylists to MP3, M4A, WAV, or FLAC files.
  • Remain ID3 tags and lossless audio quality of Spotify music.
  • Save Spotify albums on computer forever without subscription.
  • 5X faster speed; Batch download & conversion; Manage music library.
  • Listen to Spotify music, albums offline on any MP3 players, iPods, etc.
  • Burn Spotify albums to CD; Save Spotify albums to USB drive, SD card.
  • Easy to use; No need to install the Spotify app on Windows version.
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Step-by-step: Download Spotify Albums to Computer in MP3 320kbps

Preparation
First, Download and install TunesBank Spotify Music Converter on your Mac or PC. No need to install the Spotify app, the latest TunesBank Spotify Music Converter for Windows and Mac can work independently! By the way, add your Spotify albums to a playlist before you start.

Step 1. Launch TunesBank Spotify Music Converter
Fire up TunesBank Spotify Music Converter on your desktop. At the same time, Spotify desktop app will be launched automatically.

launch Spotify Music Converter

Step 2. Add Spotify Albums to TunesBank
Drag and drop your target playlist where saved the albums from Spotify to TunesBank interface and it will load the songs automatically.

Add Spotify Songs

Or you can copy & paste the playlist URL from Spotify to TunesBank, and click the “Add File” button to upload all the songs in the album to TunesBank.

add Spotify playlist

Step 3. Choose MP3 Format for Spotify Albums
MP3 format is supported by most music players an devices. You can pick MP3 format in the “Convert all files to” option. Even better, TunesBank allows you to set different format for each song!

select mp3 format

Also, you can choose “Preference” from the menu bar, where you could customize the output format, output quality, output path, etc. To download Spotify albums to MP3 at 320kbps, please set the bitrate as 320kbps and sample rate as 48,000Hz.

aujust output settings

Step 4. Begin to Download Spotify Albums to Computer
Click “Convert All” button to start exporting Spotify album as MP3 files with high quality.

download spotify albums to mp3

When the conversion is done, tap “Finished” tab and you can check the converted MP3 songs in the album.

view downloaded spotify albums

Conclusion

Before, you don’t have the option to download albums on Spotify desktop app. Now with the help of TunesBank Spotify Music Converter, you are able to download album from Spotify to MP3 with high quality and save them on your local computer forever. TunesBank Spotify Music Converter helps you download and convert any Spotify tacks, albums, artists, playlists, podcasts and radio to MP3/M4A/WAV/FLAC with 100% original quality preserved. By using this excellent tool, you can save your favourite Spotify contents on your local computer forever, listen to Spotify albums offline on your desktop, or transfer them to any device for offline enjoying!

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