How to Listen to Spotify Offline

As one of the leading music streaming platforms, Spotify needs no introduction. The Spotify app has loads of features that make it convenient to use, and one of them is the ability to download and save songs that you can listen to even when you don’t have an internet connection. However, if you don’t want Spotify to access your internet because maybe the internet is scarce where you live, here’s how to listen to Spotify offline.

Note:

A Premium subscription is required to download playlists and albums on Spotify and use its Offline Mode feature. Free users can only download podcasts for offline usage.

How to Enable Spotify Offline Mode on Phone

Enabling Spotify offline turns on the offline mode, where only your downloaded playlists show up. Spotify usually goes offline automatically as soon as you disconnect your phone from the internet. But you can turn on Offline mode within the app to force Spotify into not using the internet. It’s a great way to save data if you don’t have much data to use. Here’s how to do using the Spotify app on Android and iOS.

How to Enable Spotify Offline Mode on Desktop

Spotify Offline on the Desktop app turns on automatically if your PC is not connected to the internet. However, if you want to force enter offline mode, here’s how to do it.

This is the same across all platforms Spotify is available on, including Windows, Linux, and macOS.

Change Offline Downloads Location on Desktop

While you don’t need to explicitly enable offline mode, what you should do is specify the location where your music will be saved. To do that:

How to Download Spotify Songs to Take Offline

Of course, the Offline mode is useless if you don’t have music downloaded. Downloading music for offline listening on Spotify is pretty straightforward.

While you could download playlists to listen to offline, there’s unfortunately no way to download individual tracks. So, if you like a bunch of songs and want to listen to them offline, you can create a playlist and add these songs to it and download it for offline usage. Like playlists, you can download albums and individual episodes of your favorite podcasts on Spotify.

To check if you already have the playlist downloaded on your phone, go toYour Library>Downloaded.

Similarly, on PC, click on theDownloadstab underYour Libraryfrom the left sidebar. Alternatively, if you’re not sure that you downloaded a particular playlist, you can visit it and if the download icon appears green, it means you have the playlist downloaded.

Can You Listen to Spotify Offline Without Premium?

Currently, there’s no way to listen to songs on Spotify offline without a Premium subscription. Since the Offline mode works in sync with the Download feature, you will need to subscribe to any one of Spotify’s Premium memberships to download songs on the app.

At the moment,free users can only download podcastsusing the Spotify app on their devices for offline usage. You can follow the same steps as we suggested above to download podcasts on Spotify apps on the phone or desktop.

And that’s how you can enable Spotify offline and download music to listen to offline. We hope Spotify rolls out the ability to download individual music offline. Let us know what you think about Spotify’s Offline Mode in the comments.

Abubakar Mohammed

Abubakar covers Tech on Beebom. Hailing from a Computer Science background, the start of his love for Tech dates back to 2011, when he was gifted a Dell Inspiron 5100. When he’s not covering Tech, you’ll find him binge-watching anime and Tech content on YouTube, hunting heads in competitive FPS games, or exploring Teyvat in Genshin Impact. He has previously worked for leading publications such as Fossbytes, How-To Geek, and Android Police.

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