How to Remove DRM from Spotify? Solved!

Spotify has been providing customers with millions of songs from old favorites to the latest hits supported by many big companies, such as Warner, Sony, EMI, and Universal. It's very popular among the streaming music service platforms because Spotify supports users listening to the music online freely.

However, when you want to download Spotify songs to your local folders or phone for playback offline, you will meet some obstacles due to DRM restriction from Spotify, so that you can't enjoy Spotify freely on some devices, such as MP3 players, car system, smart TV, and Android phones.

But please don't worry! In this article, we will introduce a reliable way to remove DRM from Spotify to enjoy music offline freely without premium.

Part 1. Three different Spotify's Accounts Comparison (Free, Premium, Family)

Spotify provides three different ways to enjoy music, Free, Premium, Family. The free users can play Spotify songs, but it includes the advertisements when listening to the music. The premium subscription can remove the advertisements limit and support for downloading Spotify music on your phone or PC. But it needs to cost $9.99 per month. For family plan, its price is at $14.99 per month for a family, no more than 6 members with million songs.

However, no matter you are using free, premium or family subscriptions, you can't transfer Spotify tracks on other unauthorized devices to play because of the DRM protection that is an encrypt technology to manage the digital rights. That means users are limited and can't freely enjoy the Spotify music on some devices or players they want, such as burning a CD from Spotify for playback in the car. Besides, even if you are a premium user, when you stop the paid subscription, you will lose the download Spotify music rights or own songs in your local folder at the same time.

Can we break the DRM restriction from Spotify and download the Spotify tracks with only a free account? Please read on.

Part 2. Best Tool to Remove the DRM from Spotify

There are so many Spotify DRM removers when you research it on Google, but in this article, I will share the best software to decode the Spotify DRM protection. It's Audfree Spotify Music Converter, which is an excellent tool designed to break the DRM limitations from Spotify and convert the Spotify OGG to multiple formats, such as MP3, AAC, WAV, FLAC, etc. After removed the DRM restriction, we will be able to enjoy our Spotify playlists on any devices according to your demands.

More importantly, this smart Spotify converter supports downloading Spotify music to your local folder for free users. This is good news for every Spotify users if we have this powerful software, not only we are able to download Spotify streams freely, but also play them on any player permanently.

Part 3. Tutorial on How to Decrypt DRM from Spotify Music

Audfree Spotify Music Converter is available for both Windows and Mac, so before the formal start, you'll need to prepare a computer only, which has installed the Spotify and Audfree Spotify Music Converter apps.

Step 1. Import Spotify Songs or Playlists into AudFree.

There are two different methods to import the music from Spotify to Audfree Spotify Music Converter. The first way is to launch the Spotify and Audfree windows and then drag the songs into the Audfree's main interface directly. Or, you can copy and paste the URL of Spotify tracks, playlists or albums into the search box in the top center of the main interface.

Step 2. Setting Output format and other parameters.

The default output format is MP3, if you need to change it, just touch the top menu->Preferences to open the window, where you can choose a lot of supported output formats, like FLAC, WAV, AAC, etc. In this step, you can also change other output parameters such as bitrate, audio channel, sample rate, etc. Besides, you are able to keep or edit the ID3 tags information of the converted songs. 

Note: In order to make the conversion process more stable and avoid unexpected converting error, we highly recommend you to set the conversion speed as 1X.

Step 3. Convert Spotify Music for Freely Enjoying

After the above setting done, click the 'convert' button to start converting Spotify music. In this process, Audfree Spotify Music Converter will automatically remove the DRM Spotify songs to unprotected audio files. After finished this work, you can freely play Spotify music on any device for offline listening.