topic Re: Downloading A Single Song in iOS (iPhone, iPad)

Downloading A Single Song

Mattosaurus — Sun, 28 Dec 2014 02:42:32 GMT

So I feel like a MASSIVE idoit for not knowing this, but I just got Spotify Premium and I was wondering; how does one download a single song?

Re: Downloading A Single Song

MattSuda — Sun, 28 Dec 2014 09:19:07 GMT

There is currently no way to download a single song in the iOS app.

You can only download a whole playlist or the "songs section" for offline use by switching the "available offline" switch to on.

Re: Downloading A Single Song

Mattosaurus — Sun, 28 Dec 2014 17:40:58 GMT

Thanks. I kind of figured out a way to do it. If you save a song to Your Music you can download it there.

Re: Downloading A Single Song

silk_90 — Wed, 02 Sep 2015 18:09:44 GMT

But how did you do it? I added the song to my musics but there is no options for me to download a specific song. By the way, I'm using Android.

I really think this is a big flaw in the app. Does anyone at Spotify reads this foruns?

Re: Downloading A Single Song

mike_vengeance — Thu, 03 Sep 2015 19:45:25 GMT

Well, actually you can.

Just add the song(s) you want to sync (remember that Spotify doesn't "download" music or physical mp3 files, it's just synced information) to a playlist, then you just turn on the 'Available Offline' switch for that playlist, which can consist of 1 or 2135 songs.

🙂

Re: Downloading A Single Song

djlge01 — Fri, 24 Jun 2016 05:08:38 GMT

There's no way to download a single song even in Premium. So the best way is to create your own playlist, then click "..." beside any song you want and add it to the playlist you created, then download your playlist. That simple.

Re: Downloading A Single Song

AjaySrinivasan — Wed, 02 Nov 2016 20:47:53 GMT

Fair enough, its IOS.

How do you do that in Android?

Re: Downloading A Single Song

mike_vengeance — Wed, 02 Nov 2016 21:07:46 GMT

same way.

create a playlist, add the song(s) to that playlist, then turn on the 'Download' swich at the top of the playlist (steps here).

😄

Re: Downloading A Single Song

Béu — Wed, 05 Apr 2017 10:36:00 GMT

I did that but I had other songs saved and it download all of them instead of the single song I wanted to download. 😞

Re: Downloading A Single Song

Lorenzo_NGG — Wed, 05 Apr 2017 12:51:43 GMT

@Béu wrote:
I did that but I had other songs saved and it download all of them instead of the single song I wanted to download. 😞

The only way to download a single song is to create a playlist --> add the song to the playlist and download it

I know...it sounds weird. In Apple Music you can.

Re: Downloading A Single Song

Ffhkn — Mon, 08 May 2017 20:23:34 GMT

Stuuupid. What kind of idiots design this software?

Re: Downloading A Single Song

justinmusic17 — Tue, 30 May 2017 04:46:23 GMT

This is such a poorly designed way. What is going on with Spotify??? There should be a toggle for each track in addition to entire albums/playlists.

Re: Downloading A Single Song

hannah_alm0nd — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 22:08:54 GMT

If you create your own playlist -idk if you can I'm new to Spotify, so have no idea and I'm just assuming the actions available on Spotify are the same as pinterest- but I'm guessing that you can have 1 track on a playlist when you start the playlist- then download every playlist with one song on rather than all from one playlists at once...
But idk if thats even possible so.... please corridor me if I'm wrong!!😋

Re: Downloading A Single Song

stevenmajek — Fri, 21 Jul 2017 20:44:20 GMT

i have the solution, hold the song and tap "go to album", then you can download the song alone there.

Re: Downloading A Single Song

NOBIAZ — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 22:33:32 GMT

There's another trick which i use. View the album that the song is on. Download the album then delete everything you don't want. It's alittle annoying but youre done in less than 30 secs and u only get the song you want

Re: Downloading A Single Song

math2 — Thu, 14 Sep 2017 19:38:38 GMT

You could make a new playlist with just that song and then select the "Available Offline" for that playlist

Re: Downloading A Single Song

wpanik — Sat, 23 Sep 2017 14:06:23 GMT

This has kind of been discussed already, but I just have a playlist that is called ‘Offline Music’ which is set to download. If I want a single song, I just send it to that list and it downloads. That way, you don’t have to have a bunch of music you don’t want from other parts of a playlist.

Re: Downloading A Single Song

Heisenbueno — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 14:08:35 GMT

I'm positive the people who designed it this way were on hard drugs at the time. "Oh, you like this track present in a 36 track album? Tough luck, better create a playlist and add the song to it." This is horrendously bad for a 'premium' service.

And to think that your reply is from 2014... They know this has been an issue for a long time now.

Re: Downloading A Single Song

madumlao — Sun, 21 Jan 2018 05:53:08 GMT

@mike_vengeance wrote:
same way.

create a playlist, add the song(s) to that playlist, then turn on the 'Download' swich at the top of the playlist (steps here).

😄

No, in android you can download individual songs / albums without a playlist.

Re: Downloading A Single Song

Dzdiode — Mon, 22 Jan 2018 19:16:23 GMT

I just got Premium and I'm pissed of... On Android, can't download only songs I chose. I'm regretting it seriously.