How to Listen to Spotify Offline with/without Premium

Spotify Music stands out among all streaming music services with 270 million monthly active users worldwide. Spotify offers free and premium plans. Spotify Free users can access advertising-supported Spotify songs with lower sound quality, while Premium users can listen to advertising-free and high-quality Spotify songs, and can also download Spotify songs for offline listening. Yes, you can listen to Spotify music offline with Premium subscription account. Here comes the question, can you listen to Spotify offline without premium? How to download Spotify music without Premium account?

Don’t worry, here you will find the answer. This article will show you how to listen to Spotify offline with premium account step by step. Moreover, we will focus on how to listen to Spotify music offline without premium.

Part 1. How to Listen to Spotify Offline with Premium

If you have subscribed to Spotify Premium(costs $9.9 per month), then you are allowed to download music from Spotify and listen to Spotify offline on your mobile device or desktop. Can’t wait to enjoy Spotify premium offline mode? Well, let’s learn more details about Spotify offline mode before we start.

Something You Need to Know about Spotify Offline Mode:
1) Offline mode is limited to valid subscriptions.
2) You can download up to 10,000 songs on 5 different devices.
3) You can’t download Spotify albums or podcasts in the desktop application.
4) You can only play the downloaded Spotify music in offline mode.
5) After canceling the subscription, you will not be able to listen to the downloaded Spotify music and playlists in offline mode.
6) When downloading songs for the first time, you need to connect to the Internet or Wi-Fi. You need to go online at least once every 30 days to download music and podcasts.

Steps to Listen to Spotify Offline on Mobile/Desktop with Premium

#1. Listen to Spotify Offline On Mobile or Tablet with Premium

Step 1. Connect your mobile device to the Internet or Wi-Fi. Open the Spotify music app on your mobile device and log in to your premium account.

Step 2. Find any song, playlist, album or podcast you want to download.

Step 3. Click the “Download” button and wait patiently until the song is completely downloaded.

Step 4. Go back to “Your Library”> “Settings”> “Playback”, and then turn on “Offline”.

Step 5. Now, you can disconnect your mobile device from the Internet and play Spotify music in offline mode.

#2. Listen to Spotify Offline On Desktop with Premium

Step 1. Make sure that the Mac or Windows computer is connected to the Internet or Wi-Fi. Launch the Spotify desktop application and log in to your premium account.

Step 2. Go to the songs or playlist you want to download.

Step 3. Tap on “Download” button, when you see the small green arrow, the download is complete.

Step 3. For Windows users, click “File” in the menu bar, and select “Offline Mode”.

For Mac users, go to “Apple” in the menu bar, and choose “Offline Mode”.

After that, you can stream Spotify music offline on your computer anytime!

Part 2. How to Listen to Spotify Offline without Premium (Best)

It’s really pity that Spotify Free user can’t download Spotify music and enjoy them in offline mode. Luckily, there is also a way to listen to spotify offline free, you can turn to TunesBank Spotify Music Converter, which can help you stream and play Spotify songs offline with Spotify Free account!

TunesBank Spotify Music Converter is a must-have tool for each Spotify user. It is well designed to download music from Spotify without Premium, and then convert Spotify music to MP3, M4A, FLAC or WAV format with lossless quality. Better yet, it will get rid of the ads of Spotify songs, and keep all ID3 tags in the output MP3/M4A files. After which, you can save Spotify music on computer forever, and enjoy Spotify songs on MP3 player or any other device in offline mode! Let’s see how it works.

Guide: Listen to Spotify Offline without Premium with TunesBank

Step 1. Launch TunesBank Spotify Music Converter
First of all, download and install TunesBank Spotify Music Converter on your Mac or Windows. When you start the program, Spotify desktop app will automatically run with it.

Step 2. Add Spotify Songs to TunesBank
Now you need to add Spotify songs to TunesBank. You can drag and drop any song, playlist or album from Spotify to TunesBank, then the tool will load the songs immediately.

Or copy and paste the song/album/playlist link from Spotify to TunesBank, and click “Add File” , then the program will analyze the link and list all songs very soon.

Step 3. Choose Output Format as MP3
MP3 format is supported by most devices and players, you can pick MP3 in the “Convert all files to:” option. By the way, you can also go to “Output Format:” option next to each song to select different format for the songs.

Step 4. Adjust Output Settings
Now, go to the menu bar, and select “Preferences” option, then you can adjust the Bitrate(up to 320kbps), Sample Rate(48000Hz), Channels as neededs.

Step 5. Start Conversion
Finally, press on the “Convert All” button to start converting Spotify music to MP3 with high quality. The conversion speed can be up to 5 times, just wait a few minutes.

When finished, please go to “Finished” section, and click “View Output File” to locate the Spotify MP3 songs.

Great! Now you can transfer the converted Spotify songs to any device for offline listening!

Final Thoughts

For Spotify premium subscribers, you can easily download Spotify music and listen to Spotify in offline mode. However, the subscription fee is not a small count. Once you cancel the subscription, you will not be able to listen to any of the songs offline. By using TunesBank Spotify Music Converter, you can download Spotify music with free account, and save them in MP3, M4A, FLAC or WAV popular formats. In this way, you can listen to Spotify music on any device in offline mode, such as MP3 player, Sony Walkman, iPod nano, iPod classic, iPhone, Android, PSP, PS4, PS5, Xbox, car player, etc.