Little Known Way to Download Spotify Podcast without Premium

In May 2015, Spotify announced it would be adding Podcasts and Videos features into Spotify platform and most of the content is 'Spotify Originals'. Obviously, Spotify, which is targeted to provide more high-quality streaming audios for users, this is one of the important reasons why Spotify can quickly acquire more than 140 billion users around the world.

Sometimes, you may want to listen to podcasts on Spotify and interested with the content. But you must play them on Spotify App only. In this case, can you download these fantastic podcasts to play on other programs? In this article, we will introduce a little-known way to download Spotify podcast to MP3 for free.

Part 1. Everything You Need to Know about Spotify Podcast

Spotify provides two main tiers for users: Free and Premium. For free users, you can access to more than 40 million tunes in Spotify library, listen to Podcast, and view videos on Spotify without payment. However, you need to tolerate annoying Ads, lower audio quality. If you upgrade to Premium service, you are required to pay $9.99 per month. In the meanwhile, you will able to remove ads, play Spotify tracks at 320Kbps. More importantly, you can download all the Spotify songs, podcasts for offline playback.

Unfortunately, all the downloaded Spotify streams are encoded by DRM technology. If you checked the extension of the file, you will find all the files are in OGG format, which stands for you can play these audio files on Spotify app only. Therefore, to get podcasts on Spotify and play them freely, you need third-party program assistance.

Part 2. Best Tool to Get Podcast on Spotify for Free

AudFree Spotify Music Converter as a professional Spotify tracks converting program, which supports to remove DRM lock by converting Spotify OGG files to MP3, WAV, AAC, FLAC, M4A, M4B losslessly. Compared with common audio converters, AudFree not only can decode DRM restriction but also supports to preserve the Spotify songs/podcasts ID 3 tags information, keep 100% original audio quality, and up to 5X fast converting speed.

Moreover, no matter you are Spotify Free or Premium client, AudFree Spotify Music Converter allows you to batch download and convert DRM-ed Spotify podcasts to the DRM-free formats. After that, you can sync Spotify podcast to any device such as Sony Walkman, Microsoft Zune, Creative Zen, MP3 players, etc.

Part 3. How to Download Podcasts on Spotify

if you are a novice, please don't worry. AudFree Spotify Music Converter provides a clear interface and easy to use for everyone. Just need to follow these 3 steps to download and convert Spotify podcast to MP3 effortlessly.

Step 1. Import Spotify Podcasts to AudFree Spotify Converter

After installing AudFree on your computer, click the icon to launch it. Spotify App will be opened simultaneously. Then choose your favorite podcast and directly drag & drop them from Spotify to AudFree main interface.

Alternatively, you can also copy the podcast URL lick by right-clicking mouse and select 'Share>Copy Spotify URL', then simply paste it to the search box and click the '+' button to import it. You will find all the tags information about this podcast will be loaded on AudFree in a short time.

Step 2. Define Spotify Podcast Output Format as MP3

Generally speaking, AudFree Spotify Music Converter is set the output format as MP3 by default. If you'd like to change any other settings, you can click the menu bar and choose 'Preference'>'Convert' to enter the format setting window, where you are able to customize audio quality by set bit rate, sample rate, channel, etc.

Step 3. Convert and Download Podcast on Spotify

Once all the settings done, simply hit on the 'Convert' button at the right-bottom corner od AudFree. Then this smart audio converter will start to remove DRM and convert podcast to the target format. In addition, AudFree will help you to remove ads in the converting process.

After conversion, you can find MP3 podcast by touching the 'history' button on AudFree. Now, you will able to transfer these DRM-free Spotify podcast to any device playback without limitations.

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