How to Upload Your Own MP3 Files to Spotify? (2024)

Spotify offers a huge music library (includes over100 million tracks), where most of the songs and artists imaginable are available.But what if a song you want to listen to are not available in the Spotify library? Fortunately, you can configure the Spotify App to show your local files as well, allowing you to enjoy both Spotify’s massive library of tunes as well as your locally stored tracks. In this article, you will learn how to upload local mp3 files to Spotify and how to download Spotify music to MP3 files on the computer.

Part 1: How to Upload MP3 Files to Spotify on PC or Mac?

Before we get started, please note that you can only upload local music in MP3, MP4, or AAC format on the desktop app; Spotify doesn’t allow you to upload local songs on the web player.

"Spotify supports .mp3, .mp4, and .m4p files. It doesn't support .mp4 files that contain video, or the iTunes lossless format (M4A), but we'll do our best to match any unsupported local files with songs from the Spotify catalog." -- from the Spotify Community

To enable Local Files in Spotify on PC/ Mac, you just need to follow the steps below:

Part 2: How to Download Spotify Music to MP3 Files?

You may have collected many amazing music tracks and playlists on your Spotify. If you want to listen to your favorite Spotify music tracks with your MP3 player, game consoles, or smartwatches, you may find it is impossible to do so because Spotify encrypts its music inOGGVorbis format with protection. It’s one of the frustrating problems for Spotify users. To settle this problem, the easiest solution is to download and convert Spotify music to MP3 format with Sidify Music Converter.

Sidify Music Converter is a fast and easy-to-use software that downloads and converts albums, playlists, and tracks from Spotify to MP3/AAC/FLAC/WAV/AIFF/ALAC format. One of Sidify's unique aspects is it supports downloading Spotify music tracks in the best audio quality while retaining complete ID3 tags and metadata (such as title, artist, album, artwork, track number, disc number, and year, etc). Using this tool, you can perform batch conversion of multiple files in one go, burn Spotify music to CD or export Spotify to your iTunes, etc.

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Key Features of Sidify Music Converter

In the following part, we will talk about how to download Spotify music to plain MP3 format on your Windows/Mac computer. Before you get started, please make sure you’ve had both the Spotify app and Sidify well installed on your computer.

For Mac users, please refer to How to Download Spotify Playlists on Mac.

Step 1Choose Conversion Mode

Upon starting Sidify Music Converter, you need to choose one conversion mode to start: Spotify App or Spotify Webplayer. (>> App Mode vs Webplayer Mode)

As demo, let's select the Spotify app mode to access the interface of Sidify as below. Spotify music app will be launched automatically.

Step 2Import Music from Spotify to Sidify

Drag & drop songs, an album, or a playlist from the Spotify app to Sidify, and Sidify would read them automatically and list out the song titles. Check the songs that you'd like to download and click the Add button.

Step 3Customize Output Settings

Click the Settings icon in the upper-right corner. Here you can choose the output format (MP3/AAC/WAV/FLAC/AIFF/ALAC), specify the output folder, customize the way you'd like to sort out the downloaded files, etc.

Step 4Download Music from Spotify to Computer

Click the Convert button and Sidify would immediately start downloading and exporting the Spotify songs to your local computer.

Step 5Find the Spotify Downloads on Local Drive

Once the conversion is done, you can click the Converted tab to check the Spotify downloads that have been completed successfully.

Spotify music files are saved on your computer, and you’ll be able to play them whenever and wherever you wish.

Conclusion

Adding MP3 music to your Spotify library is not a very difficult task for Spotify Premium and Free users. By simply following these steps, you can upload .mp3, .m4p, or .mp4 music from a desktop to your Spotify, as well as download music from Spotify to your local PC/Mac computer very easily. If your local audio files are in lossless format (.flac, .wav, .aiff, .alac, or other), you can also use Sidify Music Converter toconvertlossless format files to Spotifycompatible MP3 or M4A formats, thus you can upload them to your Spotify with ease.