How to Transfer Spotify Playlist to Windows Media Player?

Q: As a Spotify music subscriber, I usually listen to the music on Spotify app and collect a great number of favorite streams in Spotify playlist. Recently, I’d like to play my downloading Spotify songs on my PC, but I noticed that the songs downloading from Spotify are in OGG format, which is incompatible with WMP, Can I sync my favorite Spotify playlists to Windows Media Player and playback them on my computer?

If you have used Windows operating system computer ever, you feel familiar with
Windows Media Player (WMP), which supports to play audio, video, and view the photo. As for the playing audio files, we all know that Windows Media Player is available for WMA, MP3 audio formats perfectly but not for Spotify Ogg format. So, here we will share a simple solution to import Spotify Playlists to Windows Media Player for offline listening.


Part 1. Why We Can't Transfer Spotify Playlist to Windows Media Player?

Spotify provides the download feature to the premium users, maybe you think that as long as you upgrade your account to the premium, then you can download songs and playback them on Windows Media Player easily. But the result is regrettable, Spotify has applied OGG Vorbis format in all songs and playlists, which are encrypted by DRM technology and prevents members listening to Spotify music on most popular players like Windows Media Player, VLC media player, and MP3 player.

In this condition, we should bypass the DRM restriction from Spotify at first. Here AudFree Spotify Music Converter is a specialist to break the Spotify DRM lock. It can help you batch convert Spotify OGG files to MP3, WAV, AAC, FLAC, M4A and other popular formats with zero quality loss so that you can playback Spotify playlists on WMP offline. Moreover, no matter you are free or premium user, it enables you to download Spotify streams, even if you canceled the Spotify subscription in the future, you can still get access to these favorite songs without loss them.

Part 2. How to Download Spotify Songs to WAV for Offline Playback

In this part, we will teach you convert to Spotify music or album to WAV on windows PC with AudFree Spotify Music Converter. If you are Mac users, don't worry, this program also supports to use on MacBook.

Step 1. Load Spotify Music to AudFree


AudFree Spotify Music Convert provides two methods to import songs, playlists and albums from Spotify to AudFree. The easiest way is directly drag & drop Spotify streams to the AudFree conversion window. The other solution is to copy the URL of Spotify tracks via right click on the Spotify item, then paste the link to search box in AudFree and then touch the "+" tab.

Step 2. Define Output Format for Windows Media Player


In order to perfectly be compatible with Windows Media Player and get the lossless audio quality, here we suggest you to set the output format as WAV by clicking the menu bar>Preference to open the preference window. Of course, you can depend on own demands to customize the output format as MP3, AAC, FLAC, M4A, etc. And you are able to adjust the channel, sample rate and bit rate in this interface.

Step 3. Download and Convert Spotify Music/Playlists


After defined output format and other parameters, now you just need to hit the "Convert" button to start converting Spotify songs to the audio format you have chosen before. To make the conversion process stable, we're suggested to close other apps temporarily during the conversion time.

Part 3. Import DRM-free Spotify Streams to Windows Media Player

When conversion process finished, you can find these DRM-free Spotify songs on your computer's local folder by touching the 'history' tab. Now we can get access to these files without any limitation. The last work is to import converted Spotify music to Windows Media Player. Let's see the detailed tutorial as below:


Step 1. Launch Window Media Player 12 on your computer and you will see the main interface.

Step 2. Please move to the main menu at the top-left corner and hit the 'Organize/ Files' and then chose 'Manage Libraries'>'Music' option.

Step 3. Click the 'Add' button, it will pop-up a new window, where will display all your folder on your computer, you just need to select the Spotify music folder. Once you chose it, Spotify playlist will be automatically loaded into Windows Media Player.

At last, if you also need to listen to the Spotify in the car stereo, you can make use of Window Media Player to burn Spotify music to a CD.




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