“Is it possible to transfer Spotify playlist to external drive? I want to store Spotify on external hard drive for backup. Any suggestion?”

Spotify music is a free music streaming with over 70 million songs. Unlike its competitor Apple Music, Spotify offers Free and Premium mode. With a Premium account, users can download Spotify music to desktop, mobile, and tablet for offline listening. But what about downloading Spotify music to external hard drive? Many people want to save Spotify music to external hard drive for backup, collection or playback on portable devices. Read this article, you’ll find the right answers.

Can You Download Spotify Songs to External Drive Directly?

In fact, all Spotify music are encrypted with DRM technology, and they can only be accessed through the Spotify web player or app. Even though the Spotify Premium users are allowed to download Spotify music, the downloaded Spotify songs are just cached files. They don’t really own the Spotify music. Therefore, neither the Spotify Free nor Premium users, they can’t transfer Spotify songs/playlists to external drive, USB drive, MP3 players, or other non-authorized devices. The downloaded Spotify songs are just cached files, you don’t really own them.

Don’t be discouraged, everything has two side. This does not mean that it is impossible to save Spotify songs to an external drive. As long as you can save Spotify songs as a local MP3 files, you can easily transfer Spotify music to your hard drive. Using a third-party tool can easily get the job done. Here you can turn to TunesBank Spotify Music Converter.

Tool Needed to Save Spotify Music to External Hard Drive

TunesBank Spotify Music Converter is born to help users get rid of Spotify DRM lock and save Spotify songs as local files. It enables users to download and convert Spotify songs and playlists to MP3, M4A, WAV, FLAC with lossless audio quality. With no need to install the Spotify app, you can convert your Spotify music library into audio files on your Windows PC. After which, you will be able to transfer and save the converted Spotify songs to an external hard drive, USB drive, SD card, MP3 player, iPods, smartphone and more portable devices.

Main Features of TunesBank Spotify Music Converter:

• Remove DRM protection from Spotify songs, playlists, albums.
• Download Spotify music to local computer without Spotify app.
• Convert Spotify music to MP3/M4A/FLAC/WAV formats losslessly.
• Convert Spotify at 5X faster speed with zero audio quality loss.
• Customize output quality like bitrate, sample rate of music files.
• Transfer Spotify music to hard drive, USB stick, SD card, MP3 player, etc.
• Backup Spotify music to external hard drive without subscription.
• Listen to Spotify music offline whenever and wherever you want.

Tutorial: How to Save Spotify Songs to External Hard Drive?

To transfer Spotify music to hard drive, first you need to save Spotify songs on local computer, and then transfer these songs to your hard drive. TunesBank Spotify Music Converter works perfectly on both MacOS and Window system. Here we will take Windows example.

Step 1. Launch TunesBank Spotify Music Converter for Windows
After installation, fire up TunesBank Spotify Music Converter on your Windows PC. Then click the “Open the Spotify web player”, and login to your Spotify account ( free or premium).

Step 2. Import Spotify Songs or Playlist to TunesBank
Next, you will enter the Spotify web player and see your music library. Just drag and songs or playlist to the “+” icon.

To import the Spotify songs to the software, you can tick the checkbox one by one or click the “Select All:” button at the bottom.

Step 3. Choose MP3 as Output Format
To transfer and save Spotify music to hard drive, you need to set the output format as MP3. Please pick the MP3 from the “Convert all files to:” option.

In addition, TunesBank also allows you to customize the output quality as needed. Go to the menu bar and choose “Preferences”. In the pop-up window, you can customize the output format, sample rate, bitrate.

Step 4. Export Spotify Songs to Local Drive
When finish customization, hit on the “Convert All” button to start conversion. TunesBank will immediately convert all selected Spotify songs to DR-free MP3 formats and export them to local drive.

After conversion, you can get converted Spotify music in the “Finished” section. Click “View Output File” to locate the songs.

Step 5. Transfer Converted Spotify Songs to External Hard Drive
Connect your external hard drive to your Windows PC via USB cable, and wait for the driver installation. Then directly drag and drop the converted Spotify MP3 songs to your hard drive. When finished, eject the hard drive from your PC.

With the help of TunesBank Spotify Music Converter, you can easily save Spotify songs on your local computer, and keep them forever. Plus, you may transfer Spotify songs to hard drive, USB drive, SD card, MP3 players, iPhone, Android and more devices without restrictions.