Are you an avid user of Spotify application? If you do, then perhaps, you are one of the many music lovers out there who always listen to the top and hit songs of all time. Spotify has been known to be one of the best music streaming services which can offer millions of tracks and amazing features to every user.
And, being able to stream all your favorite Spotify playlists in any types of media and music players such as Foobar2000 is definitely one of the best things. Here, we’ll discuss the steps needed to add Spotify music to Foobar2000 and finally enjoy those tracks anytime you want to. So if you are one of the many people who love using this Foobar2000 as well, this post will benefit you a lot.
If you are using the Spotify application for quite a long time now and you even purchased a premium just to unlock the many capabilities the application has, probably, you are aware that being a premium user will let you download the Spotify songs you love and have those streamed offline.
Although this is indeed a great feature, this as well as some limitations. Though you saved all favorite songs of yours in your device, you cannot play those in any other media player. To know the reason why head to the first part of this article.
Contents Guide Part 1: Limitation to Download Spotify MusicPart 2: What Is Foobar2000 And What Does It DoPart 3: Add Spotify Music To Foobar2000Part 4: Transfer The Downloaded Songs To Foobar2000Part 5: To Sum It All
The main reason as to why you cannot share any Spotify song downloaded in one device to another offline is because those songs are DRM (Digital Rights Management) protected. This means that those are copyrighted files which you cannot play in any unauthorized devices and gadgets or even media and music players.
When it comes to Foobar2000, unfortunately, it does not support the playing of Spotify songs because of the mentioned DRM protection those have. You might have tried doing this before, but the result is surely a failure. Though Foobar2000 supports the OGG Vorbis format, sadly, Spotify songs cannot really be played in it.
Let us highlight some more information about this Foobar2000 in the next portion of this post.
Foobar2000 is one of the many used audio players in town. This is often referred to as “fb2k” and is known to be a freeware audio player compatible with many devices such as iOS and Android gadgets and even in Windows personal computers. This was developed by Peter Pawtowski and was popularized in December of the year 2002 because of the intuitive design it has features, and configuration capabilities.
This supports a lot of file formats including the most used such as MP3, AAC, MP4, Ogg Vorbis, ALAC, FLAC, and a lot more.
Below are the amazing features you can enjoy while using Foobar2000.
Though Foobar2000 looks so amazing and great because of the capabilities initially stated above, it still lacks the ability to support the playing of your favorite Spotify songs.
Now that we got some basic knowledge about it, we are now going to present the solution to the above difficulty. You should worry no more because we definitely got an answer to that. And, that solution will be highlighted in the next part of this post.
Since Foobar2000 does not have the ability to handle your most-loved Spotify songs, there would be a need for another software application which has the capability to download those tracks in Spotify application and even have those transformed to any file format supported by Foobar2000.
And, that application’s name is DumpMedia Spotify Music Converter. If you only heard or read about this just now, then you need to know more about this tool and how it can actually help and benefit you.
DumpMedia Spotify Music Converter is a tool developed and created by DumpMedia. This software application has the ability to transform or convert your favorite Spotify songs to any format you want. If possible, you can even convert Spotify songs to Apple music. It supports a lot including the most used and most popular including MP3, WMA, WAC, AAC, FLAC, and many more.
In addition to this, during conversion, the removal of DRM (Digital Rights Management) protection will also be done. This means that you can have those songs streamed and played in other devices easily without having to worry about whether the songs will play or not.
The steps are actually quite easy. Here are those.
Let us look into these steps further.
Of course, the first thing you need to do is to have this DumpMedia Spotify Music Converter downloaded and installed on your personal computer. Once done, just open and launch the program to start as well as your Spotify application.
You can begin adding the files by performing dragging and dropping or even adding just the file’s URL (link). This program supports batch conversion which makes it possible to convert not only a file but a number. Converting a lot at a time is not an issue.
Upon importing and uploading the songs to be converted, the next step would be the selection of the output format. Make sure that you will choose any format you desire among those that you will be seeing on the screen.
In this case, we ought to convert the songs to a format which has been generally supported by numerous media players especially by Foobar2000. You can have the songs converted to MP3 format or any other formats mentioned in the first paragraph of this part. You can do this by heading to the “Convert All Tasks To” button located at the top right corner of the screen.
The last step would be hitting the “Convert” button to begin the conversion process. This will only take some time since the program is designed to function five times faster than any other converters. While conversion is being done, status bars will be shown in the screen wherein you can monitor the progress of the process for each song.
By just doing these three easy steps and after a few minutes, you can have all those favorite Spotify songs of yours downloaded and saved on your personal computer. The next thing you need to accomplish is to have those transferred to Foobar2000 and here is the procedure to do that.
Once downloaded songs are ready, you can now proceed with the importing of those to Foobar2000. You can simply do this by heading to your Foobar2000, ticking the “File” button which is located only at the top left portion of the screen, followed by hitting the “Add Folder” button. A new popup window will open.
From there, you just need to choose the folder wherein you have saved your downloaded songs. Once chosen, just hit the “Select Folder” option to finally add Spotify music to Foobar2000.
Once the above has been completed successfully, all songs imported will be seen in Foobar2000. All you have to do now is to enjoy streaming!
Foobar2000 is indeed one of the many audios and music players out there which up to now is still being utilized by many. Though it has many great features, it does not support the playing of any Spotify songs. But that can be resolved with the use of this DumpMedia Spotify Music Converter.
Have you also encountered the same issue before? What have you done? Why not consider the solution discussed in this post?
