Spotify is compatible with most major operating systems, including macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, Linux, and Chrome OS. While the Spotify app isn’t available in the Mac App Store, it’s easy to download directly from Spotify’s website.
This guide will show you how to install Spotify on your Mac and how to download songs for offline listening, whether you have a Premium or Free account.
Although Spotify is unavailable through the Apple App Store, you can still obtain it from the official Spotify website. Please note that Spotify is compatible with MacOS 11.0 (Big Sur) or newer. To acquire and install Spotify on your Mac, follow these steps:
Once the installation is finished, Spotify will open on your desktop, as well as appear in your Mac’s dock. You can also find it in the Applications folder. Now, you can log in to Spotify and enjoy your favorite tracks on your Mac.
Spotify offers a download feature, but it’s exclusive to Premium subscribers. You can download albums and playlists with the Spotify app on your mobile and desktop devices including your MacBook. However, these downloads become unavailable if your subscription ends or if you reinstall the app.
Free Spotify accounts can only download podcasts. To download Spotify music without Premium, consider using a smart tool like Pazu Spotify Converter. It allows both Spotify Free and Premium users to download all types of Spotify songs, playlists, and albums for offline listening on Mac and Windows.
Pazu Spotify Music Converter can extract Spotify music and convert it to various formats, including MP3, M4A, AIFF, WAV, FLAC, and AAC. With Pazu Spotify Music Converter, you can conveniently access many Spotify Premium features with a free account. In addition, you can keep these downloads forever and enjoy them on any supported devices.
Key features of Pazu Spotify Converter:
Now, let’s learn how to use Pazu Spotify Music Converter to download and convert Spotify songs with a free subscription on your Mac.
Download, install, and run Pazu Spotify Converter on your Mac. Log in to your Spotify account with the built-in web player.
Click the gear icon on the top right corner and select the output format as MP3. You can also choose output audio quality, customize the output path, organize the output files in various ways, rename output files, and more.
Use the integrated Spotify web player to search the songs, albums, playlists,s or podcasts you want to download. Click the Add to List button to load all songs in the album or playlist, and uncheck the songs you don’t want to download if there are any.
Click the Convert button to start downloading the Spotify songs to your local computer.
Once the conversion is done, you can find your Spotify songs downloaded as local files by clicking the below folder button or directly going to the output folder you customized in the previous step.
Note: The free trial version of Pazu Spotify Converter enables you to convert the first three minutes of each song. You can remove the trial limitation by purchasing the full version.
Download and convert any Spotify songs, albums, playlists to MP3/M4A etc.