How to Find and Change Spotify Downloads Location

By Annie Cale

Updated on: October 21, 2024

Category: Spotify Tips

As known, Spotify offers the offline download feature, but exclusively for paid subscribers of Spotify's No Ads plan. The ad-free plan for individuals costs $11.99 per month, letting users save content to listen later when they're disconnected from Wi-Fi or cell service. The process of downloading is relatively simple, and if you need to find and change the download location of Spotify songs, below is how-to. Plus, we will also show you an amazing method to save Spotify songs as MP3 files.

Step 1 Open Spotify, and click on the drop-down menu appearing at the top-right corner and select "Settings".

Step 2 Scroll down and Tap on the "Show advanced settings" button.

Step 3 Now, scroll down and you will see the download location folder path under the "Offline songs storage" section.

Simply copy and paste the path, you can go to the Spotify offline storage folder.

C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Packages\SpotifyAB.SpotifyMusic_zpdnekdrzrea0\LocalState\Spotify\Storage

Here [USERNAME] is the Windows folder with your current username. Now the folder is opened, but there are no file names that help you identify the tune, all files are unknown data files. If you need to change the location, please click "CHANGE LOCATION", and then find your desired folder in the popup window, select it and click on the "Add" button.

For iPhone: You can exclusively access and play downloaded Spotify songs on an iOS device.

For Android: Spotify downloads are stored in the 'com.spotify.mobile.android.ui' folder. To find the saved files, navigate to 'Android/data/com.spotify.mobile.android.ui/files/spotifycache/Storage.' Additionally, you can check the download path within the Spotify app, "Settings > Other > Storage".

Spotify uses an encrypted file extension (Ogg Vorbis) as its streaming format. In other words, the downloaded songs are saved in a form that only Spotify can play. So, you are not able to play Spotify songs on other media players, even though you've downloaded them to local drive. Worse yet, your Spotify app will revert to the Free version, and the downloaded songs would no longer be able to access offline, once the paid subscription ends.

Tool Required: NoteBurner Spotify Music Converter

To play Spotify songs freely with getting rid of those limits, the best way is to download Spotify songs in MP3 format. Here NoteBurner Spotify Music Converter is surely worth a try when you need to do so. It is a professional and truly efficient Spotify song downloading tool, featuring a wide range of capabilities including music downloading, format converting, etc. With the help of this tool, you can download any song from Spotify in MP3, AAC, FLAC, AIFF, WAV, or ALAC format with all ID3 tags and original audio quality kept.

The program is available on both Windows and Mac computers. Aside from Spotify music downloading, the Windows version also comes equipped with four practical features including Format Converter, Burn CD, Upload & Share, and Edit Tag, you can explore them by tapping on the "Tools" part.

Features of NoteBurner Spotify Music Converter:

• Convert Spotify music to MP3, AAC, FLAC, WAV, AIFF, ALAC;
• Record songs at 10X faster speed with 100% lossless quality;
• Keep ID3 tags & lyric after conversion;
• Support burning Spotify music to CD in one-click;
• Upload converted Spotify music to iTunes/Music directly.
• Download songs from Spotify App or Spotify Web Player.