When I download songs from Spotify from my Android, where do they go?

[drsab]

Hi,

I'm a premium member, and I am trying to download some songs locally to my Samsung5 phone.  In Spotify it says my songs were downloaded, but I can't find them anywhere in my file explorer on my phone.  Where do they usually end up when you download them?

Thanks for any help - Sabina

[atom1989]

Hello Sabina. Please follow all the steps described here 

[Daniel]

When you download songs they go to the cache folder 'Android\data\com.spotify.music\'

These files are encrypted so that they can only be played using the Spotify app.

[drsab]

Oh ok - they are encrypted.  I didn't realize that.  I should've added that I was hoping they were downloadable as MP3 files so I could listen to them through some music slow-downer software (I'm a musician and I use this to learn songs).  So there's no way to download them as MP3s or MP4s?

[Daniel]

I'm afraid not as this would break the agreement with the record labels/artists. If they were mp3 then it would be a) easy to distribute freely and b) the artist would not get the relevant royalties for each play of a track.