How to Download Spotify Podcasts to MP3? 2024 NEW

Is it possible to export podcasts and audio files from Spotify? Yes. Follow the guide here, and you could enjoy your favorite Spotify podcasts in any MP3 player.

Spotify offers a massive world of free podcasts on any topic you can imagine. From deep dives into your passions to entertaining stories, podcasts are like on-demand talk radio. Till 2024, Spotify has over 6 million podcast titles for any Spotify users to access. Downloading Spotify podcasts for offline listening helps you enjoy your favorite episodes when internet is unavailable. In this post, we introduce you 2 methods to download podcasts from Spotify as well as convert Spotify podcasts to MP3.

How to Download a Spotify Podcast with Spotify App

Whether you prefer popular podcasts like The Joe Rogan Experience, Call Her Daddy, or discover diverse podcasts based on your own taste, the Spotify app allows you to enjoy offline listening. Unlike Spotify albums, playlists which requires a Premium account to enable the download feature, you can download Spotify podcasts offline with both Spotify free and Premium subscription.

• App required: Spotify desktop app or Spotify app for iOS/Android
• Available: Spotify free and Premium subscriber

Here takes Spotify app desktop version as an example to download podcast from Spotify.

Step 1: Launch Spotify app on your Windows or Mac computer, and login with your Spotify account.

Step 2: Select the podcast you want to download.

Go to “Search” > “Podcasts” or find “Your Library” > “Podcasts” to choose the episodes you want to listen offline.

Step 3: Click “Download” icon to start downloading Spotify podcast audio files.

Step 4: Go to “Your Episodes” tab to find all your saved and downloaded episodes. Now, you are able to play downloaded Spotify podcasts offline.

Pros:

• Easy to operate.
• Spotify free version can download podcast too.

Cons:

• You can only play the downloaded podcast with Spotify app.
• You may lose the downloaded podcast if you uninstalled Spotify app.
• Some user reports that when click Download icon, the wheel starts turning and doesn’t stop.

How to Download Podcast from Spotify to MP3

A big problem to download Spotify podcast with Spotify is that you can only play it via Spotify app. Since Spotify encrypts its podcasts in the OGG format, the downloaded files aren’t compatible with other audio players and your portable devices. This limits your ability to listen to them outside Spotify. Is there any way to convert Spotify podcast to MP3 to be able to listen to it off of Spotify?

Downloading Spotify podcasts to MP3 can help you enjoy your favorite episodes offline without any limitation, so that you can listen to Spotify podcasts anytime and anywhere. This can be done with third-party Spotify podcast downloader to MP3.

• App required: Spotify Podcast Downloader
• Available: Spotify free and Premium subscriber

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The application works as Spotify podcast to MP3 converter which enables people download any podcast from Spotify and turn into MP3. For anyone who want to play Spotify podcast via MP3 player or save your desired podcase locally in case of being taken down, Spotify podcast downloader to MP3 is the best option.

Step-to-step guide to show you how to convert Spotify podcasts to MP3.

Step 1: Launch Spotify Podcast Downloader on your Windows or Mac computer.

The interface of Windows version and Mac version of the application is the same. Here we take Windows version as example, you don’t need to worry if you are running Mac.

Step 2: Go to Settings and set MP3 as output format

Apart from choosing output format as MP3, you can manually adjust the output audio quality from 128kbps to 320kbps, organize output file, or change output folder according to your needs.

Step 3: Add a podcast or podcast playlist from Spotify

Click the “+” icon, then an adding window will pop up to indicate you adding Spotify tracks, playlists, or podcasts. Drag & drop your desired Spotify podcast to the program or copy the podcast link or whole show link to the clipboard and then click “OK” to add the podcasts. The program panel will show the podcasts you select.

Step 4: Start Downloading Spotify Podcasts to MP3

Click the “Convert” button to start conversion. After conversion, you can find the converted podcast files by clicking the “Converted” button.

Now, all the podcast files have been exported to MP3 and save on your computer, you can enjoy them on any media player freely and take them with you wherever you go.

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Pros:

• Does not need technical level to use.
• Skip annoying ads when downloading podcasts with Spotify free account.
• The downloaded Spotify podcast can be played in various media players.
• Preserve ID3 tags.
• Settings can be customized according to different needs.

Cons:

• Not free.
• Not available for mobile phone or tablets.

Conclusion

With Spotify, you are able to download podcasts for offline enjoyment no matter you are a Spotify free or premium subscriber. But you may lose the downloaded Spotify podcast due to podcast being taken down, reinstall Spotify app, go online longer than 30 days and etc. With Spotify podcast downloader, you can download Spotify podcasts to MP3. By exporting your favorite Spotify episodes and audio files to common MP3 files, you could listen to Spotify podcasts with any MP3 player without any restriction.

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