A: Firstly, Spotify is a streaming music service. Strictly speaking, you are unable to download any songs from Spotify. To sum up, to download music from Spotify and play them on Windows Media Player , in principle, is impossible. But in this post, we are going to make it possible. Launch NoteBurner Spotify Music converter. Click the " Convert " button and the Spotify song or playlist you selected in Step 1 will soon be converted and downloaded to your local computer.
They're not in my PC music files so where the heck are they? Go to Solution. Spotify is not a source to download music. It is not like making a one time purchase of a CD and owning it forever. You cannot access the files for personal use.
It is not a file-sharing system. You either pay a monthly subscription to access all the music in the world, or with a free account, the advertisements pay that access fee for you. You have access while you are paying, but the movie you rent does not belong to you, it is part of a library.
What are you paying for? The operating costs, and the artist or label. Yes, every time you listen to a song, whoever owns the song gets paid. I know this, because I am an artist and my label pays me.
I also have access to all my stats via Spotify for Artists. Now, if you want to burn a CD you will need to find these artists on Bandcamp which pays the artist directly or if they are more popular artists not found on Bandcamp, you will need to download to your computer via iTunes, GooglePlay, or whatever else available to download songs.
You may purchase each song individually or an entire album. These save to your computer as playable files usually. MP3, sometimes. It is my understanding that music saved through iTunes into the iPhone music app sometimes disappears if the album is removed by the artist or label or apple from the iTunes Store this is what my friend told me about his experience so if you want to keep your music, have it on your computer, in a separate file you can play on QuickTime or VLC or similar Does windows still have their awesome player?
I hope this clears up the confusion. I was certainly confused when I first started using Spotify, as well, but now I pay for the Duo subscription so my husband and I have access to whatever songs pop into our heads on a whim and we spend most of our days with Spotify on, playing podcasts.
My husband just released his album today and you can find his music on every platform. Total Chroma - Body Relics. View solution in original post. If you cancel your premium subscription, your account will be reverted to a Free ad-based service- so the songs you've downloaded from Spotify will be removed and you won't be able to listen to them offline. I have been searching for the location of my downloaded Spotify songs on my PC.. But I cannot open any of them — or even identify the songs that the files hold.
S potify uses an encrypted file extention Ogg Vorbis as their streaming format- not an MP3 file. It's a way to prevent illegal access and piracy of songs. So you would be able to download and play the songs offline, but only on Spotify; You cannot play them on other platforms. So, to be clear, I can play songs I have downloaded with Spotify, but I can only play them with a Spotify "player"??? First, go to the drive or folder where you are want to store the files.
Now, create a new folder and name it anything you want. As you can see, it is pretty easy to find the Spotify offline download folder and change the offline download folder.
Hope that helps. If you are stuck or need some help, comment below and I will try to help as much as possible. If you like this article, do check out how to make private session default in Spotify and how to stop Spotify from launching at Windows startup.
If you find the downloaded Spotify songs in the local files, you will find that they are encrypted in Ogg Vorbis files and readable in the Spotify app only, as mentioned in the article. However, if you remove DRM protection via a third-party tool like AudFree Spotify music converter, then you will be able to back up your Spotify songs or playlists when Spotify Premium expires, and keep them forever. Hey i accidentally changed the location to my desktop, and now all the files are over my desktop.
How can I reset it back to the default location.
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