Ever since the Walkman days, music lovers have taken their music anywhere and everywhere they could. We take our music out for a run, we bring music into the shower, and we always bring music when we travel, be it by plane, train, or automobile. And since we bring our music where our internet sometimes cannot follow, that means that offline modes for our music apps are important. Offline for Spotify is an abomination, and call me crazy, but I believe it's intentional.
It wont let me download my playlists? No matter what I do, my playlists WON'T DOWNLOAD! Removed other playlists that might have effected it, removed songs, removed. I had a problem with my offline mode, but now that's fixed. Mar 9, 2018 - You can't trigger Offline mode for Spotify in Android Auto, so if you want to. With Offline mode enabled, three of the five tabs of the Spotify app won't work. A playlist with zero songs downloaded for offline still shows in your.
Whenever you’re in Offline mode, Spotify operates as normal, apart from the inability to search and stream live songs from Spotify’s library and view your People. First, check the download status. The Downloaded symbol (desktop) / (mobile and tablet) indicates the download was successful. If the Downloaded arrow is grayed out, check out 'Music not downloading' above. If the Downloaded arrow is green, try switching on Offline Mode. Select your device to find out how. I had a ton of songs on my Spotify account, possibly over 2,000. I think there's some sort of limit on the songs you can have offline, or maybe there's not I don't really know. But I found that when I went in and took off a ton of songs I don't listen too, the app then downloaded all the music it wouldn't download.
In online mode Spotify works ok, but I can't download playlists to offline mode. Spotify won't sync songs to offline mode HELP ME PLEASE. This wikiHow teaches you how to download Spotify songs in order to listen to them offline. In order to download Spotify songs, you'll need to create a playlist with.
Let's begin with what you have to do to turn on Offline mode. Turning on Offline mode is a three-tap process at a minimum. From the home tab of Spotify:
- Tap Your Library.
- Tap Settings (the gear icon in the top right corner).
Tap Offline mode to toggle it on.
And to turn it back off, you have to come back to the settings, as opposed to apps like Google Play Music, where Downloaded Only mode can be activated directly from the hamburger menu and can be disabled simply tapping the Downloaded Only banner at the top of the most screen in the app. You can't trigger Offline mode for Spotify in Android Auto, so if you want to only listen to downloaded music in the car, you have to turn it on before you plug up in the car.
With Offline mode enabled, three of the five tabs of the Spotify app won't work. Radio doesn't work without internet, because radio stations can't be saved for offline playback. Browse doesn't work without internet because you can't choose to download what you haven't seen yet. The home tab doesn't work without internet because ... I actually don't get this one. At the very least, the Home tab could show your recently played and some recommendations from your downloaded music in the Home tab, but no, the tab is just disabled.
This leaves you with the Search tab, where you can listen to recent searches that you've downloaded, and My Library. Even in My Library, though, things aren't made any easier in Offline mode, because you still see your whole library. If you go to Albums trying to see what albums you can listen to offline, be prepared to hunt for those little green downloaded icons underneath the album names, because albums with zero offline songs are still down in your Albums list. Same with Playlists; a playlist with zero songs downloaded for offline still shows in your Playlists list. The Songs list isn't much better, because rather than hiding all non-downloaded songs, your Songs list is the same as the online version, except most of the songs in it are greyed out.
If you're trying to find something to listen to quickly in Offline mode, it better be something in Recently Played, or else you'll be digging through the filter settings in each section of your library for Downloads, a filter that won't automatically turn on and off with Offline mode the way most apps handle offline mode. This is compounded by the fact that even though Spotify caches while it streams, that cache can't be played offline the way other music apps do: you have to explicitly tap Download for every album and playlist you want to listen to offline.
For most users, it's just easier to leave Offline mode off and just pick an album or playlist that you know has already been downloaded for when you're trying not to blow your data cap. And that is exactly the point of this exercise in frustration: Spotify doesn't want you to use Offline mode.
If you're using Offline mode, you can't listen to any radio stations or non-downloaded playlists, meaning you aren't listening to anything new and you aren't being dazzled by Spotify's algorithms. Spotify may lull people into subscribing with their large library and low student pricing, but the way it keeps those subscribers is by wowing them with great new music every time they start a Playlist Radio station or tune in time after time to Discover Weekly. Spotify needs you to keep Offline mode turned off so that it can keep serving up its best features, and so Offline mode being a hobbled mess may be less of a bug and more of a feature.
Do you even bother turning on Offline mode in Spotify, or do you just try and avoid any un-downloaded content while you're out and about in the world? Have you just tossed your data concerns to the wins and decided to not care about offline for Spotify? Or do you download so much of your library that finding something to listen to offline isn't finding a needle in a haystack?
Spotify is clearly the best music streaming service out there — err, at least according to us. Its premium service is relatively affordable, it offers more than 30 millions songs, and it will allow you to download specific songs and playlists to listen to when you’re offline. Downloading music directly from Spotify is easy, too, and can be done on both your mobile device and desktop machine.
If you’re unclear on how to go about doing it, however, we’ve put together a simple tutorial on how to download songs from Spotify. The one caveat — if it even is one — is that you can only download 3,333 songs on each device, and can only do so on up to three different devices. You’ll also need Spotify Premium and an internet connection to make it happen.
Desktop
Step 1: When viewing a playlist you’d like to download, click the button marked Follow, which is located directly to the right of the Play button. Otherwise, the download option will not be available.
Step 2: Next, toggle the Download slider in the upper-right corner of any playlist. The playlist will start to download, but keep in mind that it may take a little while depending on how large the playlist is.
Once saved, the playlist will be accessible from within the “Playlists” pane on the left. Sadly, unlike on mobile, you currently cannot download albums or podcasts on your desktop — only playlists.
Setting your desktop to Offline Mode
You can listen to your downloaded music whenever you lose connection to the internet, but if you want to manually set your desktop to Offline Mode, follow the steps below.
MacOS
- Launch Spotify.
- Click Spotify in the application toolbar.
- Select Offline Mode from the drop-down menu.
Windows
- Launch Spotify.
- Click the three horizontal dots in the upper-left corner.
- Scroll over File.
- Select Offline Mode.
Mobile
To download an album or playlist
Toggle the the Download slider in the upper-right corner of an album or playlist, directly above the song list. Once downloaded, your music will be accessible from within the Playlists or Albums pane on the left.
Note: You don’t have to be following a playlist or an album in order to download it on your mobile device.
To download a podcast
Step 1: When viewing a podcast like Trends with Benefits, tap the three horizontal dots in the upper-right corner — or the three vertical dots, if using an Android device — to access the info pane.
Step 2: Next, tap Manage Downloads.
Step 3: A download icon will appear beside each episode, allowing you to pick and choose which you’d like to download. You can also tap the three horizontal dots to the right of individual episodes and select Download if you prefer a quicker method.
Setting your mobile device to Offline Mode
You can listen to your downloaded music whenever you lose connection to the internet, but if you want to manually set your smartphone or tablet to Offline Mode, follow the steps below.
- Tap Your Library in the bottom-right corner of Spotify.
- Tap the Setting cog in the upper-right corner.
- Tap Playback.
- Toggle the Offline slider at the top.