How to add local songs to Spotify?

If you've started creating your own local music library and also want to combine your files with the music library on your Spotify account, then this is the guide for you. This guide will go over how to display your local music library on Spotify and sync your files so you can access them on your phone and any other device you may have.

How to add songs to Spotify on desktop?

1. Click the arrow on the top right corner in the top-right corner of the Spotify app and select Settings.

2. Scroll down to Local Files . Downloads and My Music are selected by default. Switch off any sources you don't want Spotify to access. If the songs you want to add are not in the 2 folder, click "ADD A SOUCE" and choose the folder.

3. Click Your Library in the top-left. You'll find a playlist called Local Files. Click this to view and play all the songs that you've uploaded to Spotify.

Supported file types:

• .mp3
• .m4p (unless it contains video or DRM protected)
• .mp4 (if QuickTime is installed on your computer)

Note: The iTunes lossless format (M4A) is not supported.

How to add songs to Spotify on mobile and tablet?

1. Open Spotify app and tap your profile picture.
2. Tap Settings and privacy.
3. Tap Local Files.
4. Switch Show audio files from this device on.
5. Your stored music is now playable from Local Files in Your Library.

How to sync Local Files Across Your Devices? Spotify Premium required

Step 1: Copy files onto a new playlist.

Select all the files you would like to sync and put them onto a new playlist. The "Local Files" playlist is a special playlist that can only be seen on respective device where the local files are saved on, so putting the files onto a normal playlist will allow your other devices to read them.

Step 2: Download the Local Files

Find and open the new playlist you put the local files into. To sync the local songs, simply press the download button, which is shaped like the down arrow in the circle at the top of the playlist. The album art for the files should now be visible, no longer grayed out and with a small download symbol to the left of the artist's name (if there are a lot of files, it may take a little while to download all of them) and you're done! Files securely stored on your computer are now synced to the mobile Spotify app and can be taken on the go. Since the songs are downloaded, they can be played when offline. If you lose your phone, there's no risk of losing your files because they're still stored on your computer. You can also put songs into other playlists if you want.

Note: Spotify free users can't sync Local Files across devices since they can't download songs. You should see the files from your computer on your playlist, but the songs are grayed out and missing their album artwork. You need to transfer the Local files to your phone first and then add them to Spotify as local files from that device.

How to add Apple Music songs to Spotify?

However, not all local songs can be added to Spotify directly. If you have subscribed to Apple Music, the songs you downloaded can't be added to Spotify directly since they are DRM protected.

As you can see the above, you can add m4p songs to Spotify, but the songs must be DRM-free. That's why when you upload download Apple Music songs to Spotify, you will find the songs won't play. This is because the m4p songs downloaded from Apple Music are DRM protected and can only be played with iTunes on authorized devices. Here we will show you how to download Apple Music to mp3 so that you can upload offline Apple Music songs to Spotify.

1. Download and Launch Apple Music Converter

Download, install and launch Ondesoft Apple Music Converter on your Mac or Windows.

2. Sign in your Apple Music account

Click the Sign in button and enter your Apple ID.

3. Change output format(optional)

The default output format is lossless M4A. Ondesoft Apple Music Converter also supports converting Apple Music to MP3, AAC, FLAC, WAV and AIFF. You can also customize output file name with any combination of title, artist, album, playlist index and track ID.

4. Select music

Follow the on-screen instructions to choose the playlist or album you want to convert.

Click Add songs.

5. Start Conversion

By default, all songs in the playlist/album will be checked. If there are songs you don't want to convert, please uncheck the box. Then click Convert button to start downloading songs to the format you choose.

After conversion, click below folder icon to quickly locate the downloaded songs. Now you can add the downloaded Apple Music songs to Spotify.