How to set Spotify sleep timer on iPhone, Android, Mac, and Windows PC?

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May 8, 2024

Spotify’s sleep timer feature allows you to turn Spotify off after a certain amount of time. You don’t have to worry about leaving Spotify running and draining your battery after you fall asleep. But the Spotify sleep timer only works on the mobile app for Android and iOS. It is not available on the web player or desktop version of the Spotify app. Currently, you can set the sleep timer to end playback after 5, 10, 15, 30, 45 minutes, 1 hour, or End of track. However, there is no way to set the Spotify sleep timer for longer.

Contents

• Part 1. How to Set a Spotify Sleep Timer on iOS and Android?
  • Option 1. Use Spotify built-in Sleep Timer
  • Option 2. Use third-party sleep timer app
• Part 2. How to Set Sleep Timer on Spotify Web Player or Desktop Apps?
• Part 3. How to play Spotify music with other music player?

Part 1. How to Set a Spotify Sleep Timer on iOS and Android?

Option 1. Use Spotify built-in Sleep Timer

1. Set Sleep Timer for Songs

Here’s how to use the sleep timer on Spotify, so you can listen to your favorite songs without killing your battery. In order to set a sleep timer for your music playback, follow these steps:

1. Open the Spotify app on your iOS or Android mobile device.
2. Start playing a song.
3. Tap its banner at the bottom of the screen to open the playback controls, then tap the three dots in the top-right corner of the screen.
4. Scroll down and tap Sleep timer, and a new page will open.
5. Select how long you would like to listen to music until the app automatically stops the audio.

2. Set Sleep Timer for Podcasts/audiobooks

There is a separate way to set a sleep timer for podcasts/audiobooks. In order to set a Spotify sleep timer for podcasts/audiobooks, follow these steps:

1. Open the Spotify app on your iOS or Android mobile device.
2. Start playing a podcast/audiobooks.
3. Open it into fullscreen by tapping its title in the media playback bar at the bottom of the app.
4. When full-screened, press the clock symbol in the bottom-right corner of the screen to open the sleep timer option.
5. Choose how long you want to listen to the podcast until it stops.

Option 2. Use third-party sleep timer app

The built-in sleep timer of Spotify mobile app only allows you to choose 5, 10, 15, 30, 45 minutes, 1 hour or end of track/episode. You can’t choose longer duration or set a specific time to stop the music. If you want more options you can choose third-party sleep timer app such as Sleep Timer for Spotify Music.

Features of Sleep Timer for Spotify Music:

• Open Spotify directly from the Sleep Timer app.
• Set fade out duration. This feature allows you to reduce the volume of music slowly.
• Extend the timer directly from the notification.
• Set a specific time to stop the music. (For example 10:00 PM, 11:00 PM, etc.)
• Sleep Timer app is available in nine languages: English, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Dutch, French, Italian, Japanese, and Indonesian.

Part 2. How to Set Sleep Timer on Spotify Web Player or Desktop Apps?

As mentioned above, the sleep timer is available in the iPhone, iPad, and Android Spotify apps. But you won’t find it on the web player, or in the Mac or PC apps. However, there are alternative methods you can use to set a sleep timer for Spotify on your Mac. Here’s one possible approach:

Option 1. Schedule your Mac to sleep or turn off

On macOS Monterey and earlier

1. Go to System Preferences on your Mac and choose “Battery” settings. In macOS Catalina and earlier, you will need to choose Energy Saver.
2. Click Schedule. Set the preferred time for your Mac to shut down or sleep and click Apply to confirm.
3. Now your Mac will go into sleep mode at the desired time and Spotify stops then.

On macOS Ventura and Sonoma

1. Open Terminal app on your Mac, enter sudo pmset repeat sleep MTWRFSU 20:00:00
2. You can change the days and time (24 hour clock) as you wish, then press Return on your keyboard. (the example above is for all days, 8:00 PM).

Option 2. Set sleep timer on mobile and use Spotify Connect

Set a sleep timer for Spotify while a song was playing on your phone. Then choose your computer from Spotify Connect, the music started playing from your computer. You will get the “The sleep timer will stop when you use connect” message on your phone. Ignore it as it still works.

Part 3. How to play Spotify music with other music player?

Alternatively, you can also use third-party media player app that has a built-in sleep timer feature to play Spotify songs and utilize their sleep timer feature to stop the playback after a specified time. There are many other music players that allow you to set sleep timer on your Mac or PC. Is it possible to play Spotify songs on other music players?

Spotify songs are encoded in Ogg Vorbis audio format with built-in DRM protection technology. If you want to play Spotify songs on other music players, it’s necessary to remove DRM from Spotify music and convert Spotify Ogg Vorbis to MP3, M4A, WAV or other plain audio formats that are playable on your music players. Pazu Spotify Converter is the best tool to convert protected Spotify songs to common audio files. It can download Spotify songs to plain MP3, M4A, AAC, FLAC, WAV or AIFF audios at fast speed with the original sound quality preserved. All the ID3 tags including title, artwork, artist, album, genre, track number will be kept for better organizing your music library. Let’s follow this guide to download and convert Spotify music to digital audio files you prefer so that you can play them on other music players with the sleep timer function on your Mac or PC.

Key features of Pazu Spotify Converter:

• Download Spotify songs, albums, playlists and podcast with either Spotify free or premium account.
• Built-in Spotify web player, no Spotify app needed.
• Download Spotify to MP3 in 320kbps.
• Multiple output formats: MP3, M4A, AAC, FLAC, WAV and AIFF.
• Keep all ID3 tags.
• Rename Spotify songs with title, album, artist, etc.
• Archive downloaded songs by album or artist.
• Multilingual interface.

1. Run Pazu Spotify Converter

Download, install and run Pazu Spotify Converter on your Mac or Windows. Log in your Spotify account with the built-in web player.

2. Choose output format

Click the gear icon on the top right corner. Here you can select output format (AUTO(M4A)/MP3/AAC/FLAC/WAV/AIFF), choose output audio quality, customize the output path, organize the output files in various ways, rename output files and more.

3. Select Spotify music

Use the integrated Spotify web player to search the songs, album, playlist or podcast you want to download. Click the Add to list button to load all songs in the album or playlist, uncheck the songs you don’t want to download if there are any.

4. Download and Convert Spotify Songs to Local

Click 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 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.