How to Add Music from Spotify to a Video

Part 1. Can You Add Spotify Music to a Video Directly?

Have you tried to add music to video from Spotify? If the answer is yes, you could already have known that you are not permitted to drag Spotify tracks to video clips directly. When you search for the answer of whether Spotify users can move Spotify songs to video project as background music on Spotify Community, the official statement could be that you can only play and use songs and playlists within Spotify app itself.

Not just Spotify, other popular streaming services have the same requirement, even subscribing its premium plan. Spotify applied digital rights managements protection in its all Spotify content, including tracks, playlists, albums, etc. In this case, even though you can enjoy the offline playback feature, the downloaded Spotify songs could be cache files, not local files. If you can't locate Spotify music downloads, how can you put Spotify music to video editing tool and make Spotify music as background music in videos?

Part 2. How to Download and Save Spotify Music for Editing

To add music from Spotify to video, we need to use a third-party Spotify solution to download Spotify music or playlists to local computer. Here, we can meet AudFree Spotify Playlist Downloader for Mac, which is specialize in downloading any Spotify content offline and save them in local folder on computer for both free and premium users on Spotify. Besides, Ogg Vorbis format can't be recognized by some popular video editing apps, this smart Spotify downloader can also convert Spotify to MP3, FLAC, WAV and other common audio formats for editing.

AudFree Spotify Playlist Downloader

• Losslessly bypass DRM lock from Spotify OGG Vorbis songs/playlists/albums
• Download and convert Spotify music to MP3, AAC, WAV, FLAC, M4A, etc.
• Add Spotify music to video editing tools, like iMovie, WMM, etc.
• Work at 5X faster speed, edit music quality and parameters

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Please make sure you have downloaded and installed Spotify app and AudFree Spotify playlist downloader on your computer in advance. Please be well noted that you don't need to update to Spotify Premium if you are a free Spotify user.

Step 1Import Spotify protected music to AudFree

Please launch AudFree Music Converter for Spotify on your computer. And then you need to import Spotify protected songs or playlist to AudFree. To do it, you can drag and drop Spotify songs to conversion window of AudFree directly or copy and paste the URL of Spotify to the search box of AudFree.

Step 2Customize output format and other parameters

AudFree software supports a wide variety of output formats. You can click the top menu bar -> Preferences -> Convert button to set the right one as output format in accordance to the compatibility of video editing tool. Besides, you can customize other audio parameters as you like.

Step 3Remove DRM and convert Spotify songs

When all settings are ready, you just need to click the 'Convert' button at the bottom-right corner of the main interface and then you will see the converting process will start automatically. Generally, it can work at up to 5X faster speed with zero quality lossless.

Video DemoDownload Spotify Music for Video Editing Software

Part 3. How to Add Spotify Music to a Video

Congratulations! You can find converted DRM-free Spotify MP3 files on destination folder. Now, you are free to import local Spotify music downloads to videos as background music, such as adding Spotify music to Instagram video via recording tool or using video editors to put them to target videos with ease.

As for the detailed guide on how to add Spotify music to video editting tools, like iMovie, Windows Movie Maker, etc, you can visit the following pages: How to Add Spotify Music to iMovie and How to Add Spotify Music to Windows Movie Maker.