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Sounds like you have a bunch of songs in the play queue, which Spotify saves between sessions now (didn't used to do that until a new release a month or two back). Click on the 'Play Queue' option in the top of the left-hand panel of the Spotify window - any queued tracks are shown in yellow - highlight and delete those.

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The famous music streaming service Spotify gives you easy access to million of songs online, but there are also some limitations. For example, free users will be interrupted by ads and can't download Spotify music for offline listening. Premium users can only download Spotify music on 3 devices (at most 3,333 songs per device). Also the downloaded playlists are DRM protected and can only be played with Spotify app. You can't move them anywhere or play them with other music player or devices.

Well, the best solution to remove above limitations is to find a Spotify downloader tool to download Spotify music as mp3 with either free or premium account. Here are many tools claim that they can download Spotify playlists, but not all of them work as advertised.

We have tested most of the Spotify downloader tools on the internet and chosen 5 of them that we suggest you have a try.

Ondesoft Spotify Converter

Ondesoft Spotify Downloader is the most professional Spotify music downloader for both Mac&Windows users to download Spotify songs, albums and playlists to mp3, m4a, wav and flac. Ondesoft Spotify Music Converter downloads Spotify music by recording the songs from spotify app and save them in mp3, m4a, wav or flac. It can preserve 100% original quality and all ID3 tags of the recorded songs. All you need to do is drag&drop the songs you want to download and then click 'Convert'. Batch conversion is supported and you can drag as many songs, albums and playlists you like to below interface and download them simultaneously. Ondesoft Spotify Converter also allows you to uncheck the songs you don't want to download from any playlist. Other Spotify playlist downloader only supports downloading the whole playlist.
Tutorial: How to download Spotify playlists with Ondesoft Spotify Converter?
Price : Lifetime license $39.95

Pros: Fast and easy-to-use.
Download as many songs&playlists as you like simultaneously.
Preserve original ID3 tags.
100% original quality, up to 320kbps.
Cons: Spotify will be used during downloading.

iMusic

iMusic from Aimersoft is an all-in-one streaming music downloader to discover, record and download music. It allows you to download songs from more than 3,000 music sites, including YouTube, Spotify, Pandora, last.fm, Vimeo, Dailymotion, Facebook, VEVO, and more on your Mac/PC. When you use it to download Spotify music, it searches the songs from YouTube and then downloads them. You need to be access to YouTube on your computer.
Price : Lifetime license $59.95

Pros: Easy to use.
ID3 tags preserved.
Cons: Doesn't support drag&drop.
Download Spotify music from online libraries. Can't download some albums and playlists.

AllToMP3

AllToMP3 is a desktop application to download and convert YouTube, SoundCloud, Spotify and Deezer in 256 kb/s MP3, with ID3 tags: cover, title, artist. Compared to the above two Spotify downloader, it is more user-friendly and effortless. Just copy&paste the link of the Spotify song, album or playlist to the top area, click Enter on your keyboard and the downloading begins. After downlading, flind the mp3 songs in the output folder. Same as iMusic, AllToMP3 downloads Spotify music from YouTube, so make sure you can access to YouTube on that computer. If the songs are not included in YouTube, it won't be downloaded.
Price : Free

Pros: free
Keep ID3 tags.
Cons : Download only the first 100 songs in a playlist.
Downloads songs from the YouTube.
May download wrong songs.

Apowersoft Audio Recorder

Apowersoft Audio Recorder allows you to record streaming music from music sites, video playforms, radio stations or capture sound from audio chats effortlessly. Is can be used as a Spotify downloader to download any Spotify songs, albums and playlists by recording them in MP3, WMA, AAC, M4A, WAV, M4R and AC3. It will recognize ID3 tags of the recorded Spotify music, but you can also edit the tags afterwards.
Price : Lifetime license $79.95

Pros: Can record audio segments.
Cons: Have to manually play and stop Spotify music.
Windows version can't recognize individual songs.
Can't customize output song quality.

Wondershare Streaming Audio Recorder

Wondershare Streaming Audio Recorder is a real-time digital audio recorder that records any audio source that’s automatically detected on your computer. You can use it to record Spotify songs in MP3 or M4A format. As it records sound from soundcard not Spotify app, make sure no other sound is played during the recording, or it will be recorded together.
Price : Lifetime license $19 for Windows and $29 for Mac

Pros: Remove ads.
Recognize ID3 tags automatically.
Cons: Have to manually play and stop Spotify music.
Output format only mp3 and m4a.
Only record at up to 256kbps.

Spotify downloader that we don't recommend

Below results often appear when you google Spotify playlist downloader, but we don't recommend them for below reasons.

1 GitHub - ritiek/spotify-downloader

• Spotify-Downloader downloads songs from YouTube in an MP3 format by using Spotify's HTTP link. It's not an app or a website with user-friendly interface. You need to be a technical professional and know how to code to use it.

2. Spotify Downloader for Android

There is an Android app called Spotify Downloader, which allows you to download Spotify songs on Android devices for free. You can download the apk from Aptoide or GetJar. You just need to enter your spotify user account name (or any account name), click on the playlist, then select the tracks and click on 'Start'. You don't need to use your password or authenticate. Seems pretty easy, hah? But the user ratings for this Spotify Downloader is only 3.21. Many users complain that it often says there is a problem with internet connection and couldn't download anything. Besides, it downloads songs from YouTube, not Spotify. Sometimes it doesn't download the entire song, sometimes only a minute and a half of it.

3. www.playlist-converter.net/

Actually it's not a Spotify playlist downloader at all. It only allows you to convert your Spotify playlists to free text, Deezer, SoundCloud, CSV and link.

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How much data does Spotify use? It depends on the sound quality you choose. The higher it is, the more data the streaming service will burn through. In any case, Spotify uses way less data than video streaming services (more on this later) and probably less than most people think.

The Spotify Android app lets you choose between five sound quality settings: Low (24kbps), Normal (96kbps), High (160kbps), Very high (320kbps), and Automatic (dependent on your network connection). You can access these options by heading to Settings > Music Quality on your Android phone.

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To simplify things as much as possible, I’ve prepared an overview of how much data each setting uses per minute and hour as well as how long you’d have to stream music for to burn through 1GB of data. Keep in mind these numbers are approximate. Spotify can cache songs you’ve previously listened to, meaning they may not eat up the same amount of data the second time you play them.

Low (24kbps):

• Per minute: 0.18MB
• Per hour: 10.8MB
• How long until you reach 1GB: 92.5 hours

Normal (96kbps):

• Per minute: 0.72MB
• Per hour: 43.2MB
• How long until you reach 1GB: 23.1 hours

High (160kbps):

• Per minute: 1.2MB
• Per hour: 72MB
• How long until you reach 1GB: 13.8 hours

Very high (320kbps):

• Per minute: 2.4MB
• Per hour: 144MB
• How long until you reach 1GB: 6.9 hours

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Now that you know how much data Spotify uses, let’s see how the numbers compare to video streaming. Watching HD content on Netflix uses up to 3GB of data per hour or as much as 7GB when the resolution gets bumped up to Ultra HD. Medium quality (SD) is a lot less data hungry, burning through 0.7GB per hour. Still, that’s almost five times as much as streaming music with the best sound quality available (320kbps).

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What about Spotify’s competitors? Google Play Music and Deezer both offer a maximum audio bitrate of 320kbps, which uses approximately 144MB of data per hour. So does Tidal, although it also has a Hi-Fi plan with a bitrate of 1.411kbps for improved sound quality. It’s a lot more data hungry, using around 635MB per hour. Apple Music, on the other hand, has a maximum bitrate of 256kbps, which translates to around 115MB of data per hour.

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An important thing to keep in mind is that Spotify — as well as other streaming services mentioned in this post — lets you download songs to your phone, which means you don’t have to use any data at all when listening to music.

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How many hours per week do you listen to music on Spotify or other streaming services? Let us know in the comments!