With Spotify Premium, you can download your favorite songs, albums, playlists, and podcasts to your computer, phone and tablet, so you can listen to them without an internet connection. You can download up to 10,000 songs on a maximum of 5 different devices. The more songs you download, the more space they will use. If you want to save your storage space, you may consider downloading Spotify music to external SD card on your phone or tablet.
Spotify is a digital music service that gives you access to millions of songs. The aim is to perform regular syncs, or copy/paste to update content rather than have to download offline content in 2 separate devices. I just dont want to have to download over wifi for hours if it can be copied in 10 minutes. And don't want to use my network data for these downloads, or to stream. Phone data isn't cheap or reliable in australia. Spotify service probably loads BEFORE the SD card mount, and then, like a mother who call the police when his son is 30 seconds late to come back home, it switches to the internal memory and starts to download all again. If the PIN is typed before the system boot, the SD card mount and when Spotify service loads, it can find the external storage.
Part 1 Save Spotify music to external SD card on Android
If your Android device has an external SD card, you can download Spotify music to it, instead of the device's internal memory.
1. Tap Home - Settings.
2. Tap Other - Storage. 3. Select where you want to save your downloaded music. 4. Tap OK. The transfer takes a few minutes, depending on the size of your library.
iPhone doesn't support SD card, if your iPhone storage is full and can't download more songs, you may consider using mp3 player to play Spotify music.
Part 2 How can Spotify free users save music to external SD card?
Spotify free users can also download Spotify music to external SD card. All you need is Ondesoft Spotify Converter. Ondesoft Spotify Converter is a professional Spotify music downloader that allows you to download Spotify songs and albums to mp3, m4a, wav and flac. It converts Spotify songs to MP3 with 100% original quality, up to 320 kbps. It will preserve all metadata. Ondesoft Spotify Converter is available on both Mac and Windows. You don't need to download Spotify music, just drag&drop the songs/albums/playlists you want to convert. So you can use it to download Spotify to external SD card with even Spotify free account.
Follow below steps and learn how to download Spotify music to mp3 with free account with Ondesoft Spotify Converter.
1. Run Ondesoft Spotify Converter
Download, install and run Ondesoft Spotify Converter on your Mac or Windows. Spotify will be launched automatically.
Spotify Download Storage Space
2. Drag&drop Spotify songs, albums or playlists
Drag&drop the podcast Harry Potter At Home from Spotify app to the Ondesoft Spotify Converter interface directly.
3. Choose output format (optional)
The default output format is MP3. Besides converting Spotify to MP3, it also supports converting Spotify Music to M4A, WAV, FLAC, OGG, AIFF. Click Option - Advanced to change output format, SampleRate or BitRate according to your needs. Click Option - General to change output folder if you like.
4. Click Convert button
If you don't need to change output settings, just skip to this step. Click Convert button to start converting Spotify to MP3.
After conversion, click below folder icon to quickly locate the DRM-free Spotify playlists in MP3 format. You can then transfer them to your external SD card or hard drive to play them anywhere you want.
Video Tutorial: Convert Spotify to MP3 with Ondesoft Spotify Music Converter
With an overabundance of streaming services everywhere on the internet, with none of them offering something special, the Swedish music streaming service created a vibration by launching its service in India. With the premium subscription of Spotify not priced very high, most incumbent music streaming services reduced their subscription prices to thrive in the market and be a step ahead in the race of streaming services in India. Keeping this aspect apart, one thing I don’t like about most streaming services is the limit of downloading music or podcasts or make them offline by keeping the downloaded data on the internal storage.
I understand, most manufacturers ditch the SD Card slot on their flagship models or provide hybrid slots, which somehow limit the ability to insert an SD Card. But not every user of Spotify is a flagship user, and some users even use the SD Card only for keeping media files. With most streaming services not having the option to download the music and streaming data to the SD Card, it can demotivate them from switching to streaming services and stick to pirated music content on SD Cards. But fortunately, the provision to use SD Card for downloading music and podcast content to SD card is available on Spotify.
So without further delay let’s get started with how you can use SD Card or external storage as the default storage for your Spotify streaming music player.
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The steps to follow
Spotify To Mp3
Step 1: Open ‘Spotify’ and tap on the ‘Settings’ gear icon. If you can’t find it, make sure you are in the ‘Home’ tab.
Spotify Download To Storage Containers
Step 2: Now scroll down to the end of the settings menu in Spotify to tap on ‘Storage’. It should be the second last option just on the top of ‘Log out’.
Step 3: Here you will find two options namely ‘Device storage’ and ‘SD card’. Tap on ‘SD card’ if it isn’t ticked by default.
Step 4: Now Spotify will ask for your permission to transfer all your music data to the SD card. Just tap on ‘OK’ to confirm this action.
This process will take some time depending upon the size of the data present in your device storage. If you have a lot of downloaded songs, the process will take quite some time.
How To Download Spotify Songs
Step 6: Wait for the process to be complete, and Spotify will restart on completion of the process. After Spotify restarts, follow the same steps and go to ‘Settings’. You will find, ‘SD card’ is selected as the default storage device, as shown below.
All the Spotify files will now be located in ‘SD CardAndroidDatacom.spotify.music’. But don’t try opening the files, as that will go in vain.
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