How to Play Spotify through Winamp without Premium

Part 1. Best Tool to Add Spotify Music to Winamp without Premium

By taking advantage of the 'Media Library' feature, Winamp will scan the digital media files stored on your hard drive. It supports adding audio tracks, videos, etc. from the Local Media option. That's to say, to get Winamp to play music from Spotify with Premium, what you need to do is to download Spotify songs as local tracks.

Besides, to support playback of Spotify music on Winamp, it's necessary to do Spotify format conversion for Winamp. Winamp is compatible with audio files, encoded in MP3, AAC, M4A, FLAC, WAV, MWA, and more. To achieve the above two requirements, a third-party Spotify music converter and downloader tool is required.

AudFree Spotify Music Converter stands out from the crowds due to its charming features. It is proficient in downloading Spotify playlists to the local computer with a free account on Spotify. As the name suggests, it's also able to convert Spotify music to Winamp-supported audio tracks. There are six audio formats that can be set as the output format, including MP3, FLAC, WAV, AAC, M4A, and M4B.

Thanks to this excellent tool, listening to Spotify through Winamp couldn't be easier.

AudFree Spotify Music Converter

• Connect Spotify to Winamp for offline playback for free with ease
• Convert Spotify music to Winamp compatible audio files, like MP3
• Play Spotify music on Winamp audio player with ID3 tags preserved.
• Customize output parameters, keep lossless Spotify songs forever

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Part 2. How to Download Spotify Music Locally for Winamp

Before getting started to download Spotify music for Winamp, Please do some preparation in advance. AudFree Spotify Music Converter has two versions, respectively Mac and Windows versions. Please download and install it according to your computer OS. This AudFree program should work with the Spotify desktop app together. Please install it as well. Then, let's move on!

Step 1Add Spotify music to convert for Winamp

When you fire up the AudFree Spotify Music Converter, the Spotify app will open at the same time. It provides two methods to add Spotify songs for conversion. To add individual music, the easier way is to drag and drop it from the Spotify app to AudFree's UI. To add Spotify playlists, albums, you can use another way. Tap the Spotify tracks to click the 'Share' > Copy Spotify Link' to copy Spotify URL. After that, please paste it to the address box and hit on the '+' button to load them.

Step 2Set Spotify music output format for Winamp

The common audio formats supported by AudFree Software and Winamp are MP3, AAC, FLAC, WAV, and M4A. You can choose one of the five formats as the output format. How to do that? Tap the menu bar from the top-right corner and then click the 'Preferences' > 'Converted' button. The setting window will pop up, in which you can define the output format and other audio parameters for Winamp.

Step 3Download Spotify music to Winamp-supported files

Click the 'OK' to save all settings. Now, you need to tap the 'Convert' button at the bottom-right corner. AudFree Spotify Music Converter will switch the adding mode to downloading mode. All added Spotify tracks will be downloaded and saved to your computer at a 5X speed.

Part 3. How to Play Spotify Music through Winamp

After conversion, Winamp can support playback of all downloaded Spotify music files via Media Library. Accessing Spotify through Winpe is the same as accessing other ordinary files. If you are a newbie to Winamp, you can refer to the following complete guide.

3.1 Export Spotify Playlist to Winamp for Playing

Step 1. Launch the Winamp for Windows or Mac app on your computer. In the main window of the Winamp, you should click the 'View' > 'Library' button to open the Media Library.

Step 2. Under the menu toolbar, please select the 'File' > 'Add Media to Library' option.

Step 3. It allows you to browse the local music folder. Please locate the Spotify music folder and open it.

Step 4. Hit on the 'OK' button to confirm your choice. All Spotify songs will be added to Winamp for playback.

3.2 Play Downloaded Spotify Music in Winamp Media Player

Step 1. To use Spotify with Winamp, please create a new playlist for all Spotify songs in Winamp. To do that, you need to right-click the 'Playlist' tab on the library panel.

Step 2. From the pop-up menu, please choose the 'New Playlist' and name it. In the left panel, please tap the 'Local Media' to choose 'Audio' and add Spotify songs to this playlist.

Step 3. You can start to select the playlist that you created and click the 'Play' to play Spotify on Winamp.

Part 4. Bottom Line

No matter with or without a Spotify Premium account, you can play Spotify through Winamp without limits. Spotify provides a large music source with 70 million tracks to explore. Winamp offers customizable features that make the Spotify music experience unique. Also, you can use Winamp to burn Spotify music to CD via its CD Support function.

Thanks to this great AudFree Spotify Music Converter, you can easily play Spotify music on Winamp. By the way, you can also listen to Spotify songs on any other media player.