What is Kodi? Kodi is an open source media player that not only manages your local files, including movies, TV shows, music, photos, slideshows, podcasts, but also allows you to access content on the internet. The service has actually been available since 2002, when it was called Xbox Media Player. In 2003, it became the Xbox Media Center, which it remained until 2014. As an useful media center, with using it you can access all kinds of content, including videos and music.

You can play media files via Kodi on any devices of your choosing, including Xbox One, TV, laptop, phone, tablet and others. It means that you can play music via this app as it is a music player, which supports a lots of audio formats, such as, MP3, AAC, OGG, etc,. Not surprisingly, Kodi is designed to run on various system, like Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows. Spotify is one of the hot streaming music services which provides users large content of music library and excellent listening experience, you may wonder how to get it to Kodi. The follow part would show you guys two ways to play Spotify Music on Kodi, regardless of you have Spotify Premium account or not.

Part 1. Play Spotify Music on Kodi with Spotify Kodi Addon

There is a common way to play Spotify on Kodi with easy steps. Before doing it, please run Google on Kodi, search Marcelveldt Repository and SPOTIMC in it. Since both of these two addon are known for the best tool for working on Kodi. Here we will take Marcelveldt Repository as an example to show you process in detail.

Step 1. Download Marcelveldt Repository zip file on the computer.

Step 2. Launch Kodi app on the computer, then click “Add-ons” > Add on > Install from a zip file, then navigate to the folder where you downloaded the repository zip and select repository.marcelveldt.zip.

Step 3. After seconds, an Add-on enabled prompt will appear on the top right corner of the interface. Then you can return to the Add-on browser and select “Install from repository” and select “Select Marcelveldt’s BETA repository” from the pop-up list.

Step 4. Select “Music Add-ons” and select “Spotify” from the list, then click the “Install” button on the lower right corner. It will take some minutes to finish the downloading.

Step 5. Click the “Configure” icon and a new window will pop up to enter Spotify user name and password, then click “OK” to complete.

Now you have logged in Spotify account on Kodi, you are able to stream Spotify Music on Kodi online. Some music required your Premium qualifications. However, if you want to play Spotify Music on Kodi offline, or play Spotify Music on Kodi without Premium, you are suggested to try the second way, which will be mentioned in next part.

Part 2. Play Local Spotify Music on Kodi without Premium

You just need a Spotify Music Converter to help you download and convert Spotify Music to audio formats that be fully compatible with Kodi. Here TunesBank Spotify Music Converter is highly recommended. It is acclaimed as an all-in-one music downloader and converter, be used for downloading music from Spotify to computer locally. At the same time convert Spotify Music to MP3, AAC, FLAC, WAV with the lossless sound quality and all ID3 tags kept. As a result, you will get Spotify Music as local files, play Spotify Music on Kodi without Premium. Additionally, you can play Spotify Music on any devices offline without accessing Spotify. As the newest version of TunesBank program, it is designed with Spotify Music web player, that makes you not need to install Spotify app in the whole music conversion.

Features of TunesBank Spotify Music Converter

• Download music from Spotify to computer locally
• Convert Spotify Music to MP3, AAC, FLAC, WAV
• Convert music with the lossless sound quality and all ID3 tags kept
• Play Spotify Music on Kodi without Premium
• Play Spotify Music on any devices offline without accessing Spotify
• Designed with Spotify Music web player

How to Download Spotify Music for Playing on Kodi

Step 1. Run TunesBank Program and Log in Spotify Account
First of all, please run TunesBank Spotify Music Converter on the computer, tap on the “Open the Spotify web player” to log into your Spotify account.

Step 2. Add Spotify Music in Web Player
Drag the Music playlist/album to the “+” icon to add music to downloading list, it will list you all music contents from the playlist/album.

Step 3. Set Output Format
On the upper right corner you can set the format for output Spotify Music files. In this case, you are suggested to tap MP3 option.

Step 4. Download Spotify Music for Playing on Kodi
At last, click “Convert All” or “Convert X Items” button to batch download music songs from Spotify to MP3 files with fast speed.

Step 5. Get Spotify Music Files Locally
Once the music conversion completes, switch to “Finished” then click “View Output File” to preview the local MP3 music songs one by one.

Step 6. Play Spotify Music on Kodi
Now, you get all Spotify Music as MP3 local files stored on the computer. You can launch Kodi and sync the music to Kodi for offline listening. Enjoy!

Conclusion

This post show you two ways to play Spotify Music on Kodi, including the best one to play local Spotify Music on Kodi through downloading and converting music to MP3. After that, you are able to enjoy Spotify Music offline on Kodi even without Premium. It do a help for you hopefully!