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Play Spotify Music via iTunes Offline


What Spotify and iTunes?


Spotify is a genuine streaming music service platform, officially launched in Stockholm, Sweden in October 2008. Spotify provides free and paid services. Free users will be inserted certain advertisements when using Spotify's services, and paid users will have no advertisements and have better sound quality.

iTunes is a free digital media player application for Mac and PC, which can manage and play digital music and videos. Launched by Apple Computer on January 10, 2001, at Macworld Expo in San Francisco. The iTunes program manages the content on Apple’s iPod digital media players. In addition, iTunes can connect to the iTunes Store (if a network connection exists) to download purchased digital music, music videos, TV shows, iPod games, various Podcasts, and standard feature films.


How to Link Spotify with iTunes?


Compared with Spotify Music, iTunes is more of a computer tool. It can help you manage the media files on your computer and on your iOS device. However, some users like the music service of Spotify music, so these Spotify users hope to be able to import Spotify music to iTunes. Then it will be more convenient for the music synchronization between the computer and the iOS device.

In this article, you will find out how to link Spotify with iTunes. We will share with you the best way to transfer all preferred Spotify Music playlists to iTunes and play Spotify music offline, burn Spotify music to CDs, upload Spotify music to iPhone, iPod via iTunes freely.

Play Spotify Music via iTunes Offline

Three parts will be introduced in this article. Follow us to learn more details with a few minutes right now.

Part 1: Download Spotify Playlists to Local Files

Needless to say, you also know that the only way to get control of Spotify music is to convert it to a common format, including MP3, AAC, WAV, FLAC, AIFF, and ALAC. Then we can add the downloaded Spotify songs to iTunes easily. Among all music converters, there is a specific Spotify Music Converter published by TunePat.

TunePat Spotify Converter has been popular since its release. This is not an exaggeration. It is the praise from users all over the world that made this software so popular. If you know this tool, you will find that it can download Spotify playlists in batches at 10X fast speed. And it keeps the artist, album name, cover, title, and more metadata of each song while ensuring high-quality output sound quality. If you are fresh to a music converter, take it easy. This music converter only takes a few simple steps to extract songs, albums, playlists, and other audio files from Spotify to local PC.

Key Features of TunePat Spotify Converter:

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TunePat Spotify Converter

  • okDownload Songs, Albums, Playlists, Podcats from Spotify.
  • okConvert Spotify songs to MP3, AAC, WAV, FLAC, AIFF, or ALAC format.
  • okKeep ID3 tags and preserve lossless audio quality.
  • okNo need to install the Spotify app; support 10X faster conversion speed.
  • okSort output Spotify songs by artist or album automatically.
  • okAvailable for both Spotify Free and Premium users; Download Spotify songs with Free account without ads.

Now, let's check the step-to-step guide on how to download Spotify Music playlists to local files.

Step 1Run TunePat Spotify Music Converter on PC

The first step is to install this TunePat Spotify Music Converter on your computer. Windows version and Mac version are available. Run the right version after the installation. You don't need to install the Spotify Music app. TunePat provides a built-in Spotify Music web player. On the main interface of Spotify, click "Open Spotify Web Player" to launch the Spotify Music web player.

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Step 2Choose the Output Settings

More user-friendly is that TunePat allows you to adjust the download parameters according to your needs. Find the "Settings" button settings in the top right, click on it. Then on the pop-up window, you can choose a preferred output format, output quality, output saving path, and other parameters. When selecting an output format, you need to make sure that the format can be compatible with iTunes.

  • Output Format: MP3, AAC, WAV, FLAC, AIFF, ALAC
  • Bit Rate: 128kbps, 192kbps, 256kbps, 320kbps
  • Sample Rate: 44.1kHz, 48kHz, 96kHz, 192kHz (depending on the output format)
  • Metadata: Title, Album, Artist, Artwork, Track Number, Disc Number, Year...
  • select spotify music output parameters

    Step 3Select Spotify Songs to Download

    Happily, without any extra steps, we can now start downloading the desired Spotify playlist. Choose a music playlist on Spotify and open it. Then head over to the lower right, tap the "Add to list" button. From this page, you can choose songs you need. Once you finish the selection, click the "Convert Now" button on the right. The selected songs from the playlist will be downloaded right now.

    converting spotify music to local files

    For some users who want to download more songs from other playlists, there is another solution. Click the "Save to list" button on the left. Then the selected songs will be added to the task list. Then you can find another playlist and pick up songs you need. When you need to download all songs, go to the "task list" in the top right. Then just click "Convert" to initiate the conversion immediately.

    converting spotify music to local files

    Step 4Check the Downloaded Spotify Music on PC

    After the conversion, you can open the output folder on the computer. You will find all Spotify Music tracks you need are saved as local files with artist, cover, title, album name, and other tags. These Spotify songs are converted to common formats. You can move them to any device and play via any media players.

    After downloading Spotify songs locally, we are going to transfer the downloaded Spotify songs, albums, playlists to your iTunes. Check the next part to get more details right now.

    successfully download spotify music to mp3 on local pc

    Part 2: Play Spotify Music via iTunes

    Since we've downloaded Spotify songs to local files. We can import them to iTunes Library anytime we need to. Just follow the detailed steps to add Spotify songs, albums, playlists, and other audio files to iTunes Library and enjoy free playback.

    Step 1 Import Spotify Songs to iTunes

    Start iTunes on your computer. Then go to the right panel. Right-click on the blank area. Then choose "New Playlists". Just create a new playlist. Open the music folder where the Spotify songs are stored. Simply drag and drop all songs from that folder to the new iTunes playlist. Then the downloaded Spotify Music is uploaded to your iTunes Library.

    creat a new spotify music playlist on itunes

    play spotify music via itunes

    Step 2Play Spotify Music via iTunes

    Now you can play Spotify songs, albums, playlists via iTunes freely. It's your private music library forever. Without network connection, you can also enjoy the playback of these Spotify songs.

    play spotify music via itunes

    Part 3: More Tips for Using Spotify Music with iTunes

    After adding Spotify music to iTunes by following the steps in the previous part, you can use Spotify music for more purposes with iTunes. Because iTunes is a powerful tool to manage music, video, and other media files from the computer, iPhone, or iPod. Here we are going to share two tips about how to use Spotify music with iTunes. You can refer to our steps and try them later.


    💁 Burn Spotify Music to CDs via iTunes

    Step 1. Start iTunes, open the newly created Spotify playlist. After that, go to "File > Burn Playlist to Disc".

    Step 2. Then you are allowed to adjust the burn settings. When it's finished, insert a CD with the computer and click "Burn" to start burning the selected Spotify songs to the CD.

    burn spotify music playlists to a cd

    💁 Import Spotify Music to iPhone via iTunes

    Step 1. Open iTunes on your computer. Connect your iPhone with iTunes via a USB cable. Then go to "Account" to log in with your Apple ID.

    Step 2. In the upper left, go to "device icon", tap it. Then click the "Music" tab in the left panel. Tick off "Sync Music" then on the lower right, choose "Selected playlists, artists, albums, and genres". (Note: Do NOT select "Entire music library".) Then go to "Playlists" to make a selection. Pick up the playlist you need. Finally, click "Sync/Done".

    Note: Uploading Spotify music to iPhone via iTunes will overwrite the existed songs or albums on your iPhone. If you need to import the downloaded Spotify music to iPhone without risk, this free solution is feasible.

    transfer spotify music playlists to iphone via itunes

    This article describes in detail how to transfer Spotify music playlists to iTunes and play Spotify music through iTunes. If you have followed our steps, I believe you should have already succeeded. If you haven’t taken action yet, you can download TunePat Spotify Converter and start taking action now!

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