How to Import Music from Spotify to Avidemux

"When I using Avidemux to edit video on my computer, I wonder is it possible to import my Spotify Music to Avidemux? After downloading and add Spotify audio files to this video editor, it seems not able to recognize these songs. Can you help me to solve this problem?" Ask from a Spotify subscriber in Spotify forum.

Unfortunately, there is not an official way to solve this issue directly. In other words, you can't stream Spotify tracks into Avidemux since Spotify music is protected by DRM. But please don't worry, here in this article we will introduce a proven way about how to add Spotify music to Avidemux effortlessly.

Part 1. What Is Avidemux? Why Spotify Music is Unavailable in Avidemux?

Avidemux is a special video and audio editing software, which is different from other common video editors such as Premiere or Final Cut Pro, etc. It is an open-source and non-linear video editing software supports to stream video to a variety of digital file formats. Moreover, this tool enables users to insert streaming music into the video and extract audio files from the imported video.

But why you can't transfer music from Spotify to Avidemux? To answer this question, let's see all the compatible audio and video formats with Avidemux.

Avidemux Supported Video File Formats: Cinepak, DV, CRAM, FFV1, H.263, H.264, HuffYUV, MJPEG, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, MS MPEG-4, Raw RGB, Raw YV12, SVQ3, VP3, VP6F, WMV2, and WMV3

Avidemux Supported Audio File Formats: MP2, MP3, AC3, DCA, Vorbis, AMR Narrow Band, and AAC

If you have checked downloaded Spotify audio files, you will find that the Spotify tracks are encoded in OGG format, which is not included in the list at above. Besides, all the Spotify songs are protected by DRM technology. As a consequence, even you have subscribed Spotify Premium plan, you can't add Spotify music to video app.

Part 2. How to Import Spotify Music to Avidemux

With purpose to stream Spotify music to Avidemux, you need to remove DRM from Spotify tracks and convert Spotify playlists to MP3, AAC, or other supported formats. As a normal user, it's not easy to get rid of DRM lock from Spotify. Please take it easy, a professional Spotify Music Converting software can help you to do this work with several clicks only.

Here we highly recommend AudFree Spotify Music Converter, a comprehensive Spotify downloader and converter well-designed to remove DRM and convert Spotify to DRM-free format losslessly. With it, not only you can convert DRM locked Spotify songs to MP3 but also retain ID 3 tag, metadata information after conversion.

In the following tutorial, we'll show you how to convert Spotify tracks to plain AAC format for editing in Avidemux.

Step 1. Import Music from Spotify to AudFree Converter

There are two ways to add Spotify music to AudFree. The most convenient way is directly to drag and drop Spotify songs to the AudFree conversion window. Alternatively, you can copy and paste Spotify playlist URL link to AudFree search box then press "+" tab.

Step 2. Choose AAC as Output Format

In order to make Spotify music available in Avidemux, you need to set the output format as AAC by clicking the Menu button to choose "Preferences>Convert". In this window, you will be able to set the bitrate, sample rate, channel, and other parameters.

Step 3. Convert Spotify Playlist to AAC

Now, simply tap the "Convert" button to start removing DRM and converting Spotify music to AAC format with the 5X fast speed.

Step 4. Add DRM-free Spotify Music to Avidemux for Editing

After conversion, you can locate the converted DRM-free Spotify files by touching "history" button. Congratulation, you have got the plain AAC format. Then launch the Avidemux program on your computer and click the "Audio" button on the Menu bar and select "Select Track" option to add Spotify tracks to Avidemux.