spotDL

Spotify has an ever-growing music library, so you're bound to run into something worthwhile in there. Though the Premium plan confers you the ability to download songs for offline playback, that all goes away once you stop paying, so it's only effective as long as you're subscribed.

If you're someone who prefers offline playback to streaming their tunes, then you might be enticed by a song downloader. spotDL will download your favorite music, along with any album art, lyrics, and metadata it can find on it, so that you can enjoy it offline as much as you want.

Downloading directly from Spotify without being a Premium user is most likely very tricky, if not impossible. As such, the tool downloads your music from YouTube: it will attempt to match the inputted song name or Spotify URL with what's on YouTube. It's not perfect, but it should do the job.

The tool initially opens as a command-line interface, which then opens a page in your browser for the web app. This is where you'll be able to look for your songs and download them. The interface is quite modern and easy to get around, so you shouldn't have any problems attuning to it.

Once you've found a song you're looking to download, the tool will attempt to find any relevant additional details about it. This involves downloading the song along with its album art, metadata, and lyrics, where applicable.

Some download settings can be modified via the web app. You can change the audio provider from YouTube to YouTube Music: we found the former to be more unstable, so we'd recommend using the latter. The lyrics provider can be changed as well, with Genius, Musixmatch, and AZLyrics being the available options. It is also possible to choose a desired output format: .MP3, .FLAC, .M4A are a few of the options.

spotDL is an overall solid solution for a Spotify downloader: it should download your music without much trouble. It is entirely possible that it may download an alternate variant of a song, however, such as one with a lower or higher pitch, so it's not perfect.