How to Download Spotify Podcasts for Free (Even to MP3)

With podcasts now spanning a wide range of interests, tuning in anytime, anywhere has become a daily ritual for many people. Spotify allows all its users to download podcasts without subscribing to the premium plans. However, these downloads are encrypted so that they can only be played on the Spotify app. The playback is somehow restricted if you want to put the podcasts to an MP3 player or burn the episodes to a CD. Worse, there are ads interrupting when you are losing yourself listening to the story if you are not a Premium user.

To help you out, this post will not only show you the guide on how to download Spotify podcasts on its official app, but also the way to download them as MP3 or MP4.

Key takeaway: The best Spotify podcast downloader - TuneFab Spotify Music Converter can help you download a one-hour episode in 2 minutes without quality loss. To learn more, just hit play on the video. Or try it free now!

You can easily download podcasts on the Spotify app and listen to them offline, but there are actually quite a few inconveniences with that. By downloading them as MP3s, you can enjoy numerous benefits, such as:

● Save Data Usage: Podcasts downloaded within the Spotify app may expire or be deleted upon logging out or uninstalling the software. In such cases, you'd need to re-download them if you want to replay them. Luckily, MP3 files are offline, allowing you to listen to downloaded episodes without consuming data, whether you're logged in to Spotify or not.

● Playback Freedom: Converting podcasts to MP3 format gives you the freedom to enjoy them ad-free, wherever and whenever you want, even offline. Plus, because they're in MP3 format, you can listen to them on any MP3-compatible player you prefer, not just on the Spotify app.

● Sharing Freedom: Because podcasts are downloaded as MP3s, you can easily share your favorite shows with friends and family via email, instant messaging, or social media, regardless of whether they have a Spotify account. Moreover, you have the flexibility to clip podcast lengths according to preference or import them into editing software when creating video content.

● Personal Collection: After downloading podcasts with a Spotify podcast downloader in the common MP3 format, you can freely store them on USB drives, cloud storage, external hard drives, or even burn them onto CDs for personal collection purposes.

Spotify has provided its official access to download Spotify podcasts. However, due to its DRM encryption, it won't be possible for you to take the podcast episodes to other devices without the Spotify app installed or play with other media players. Hence, if you desire a more limitation-free podcast playback offline, it is recommended to decrypt DRM from them and download Spotify podcasts to MP3. For such a purpose, TuneFab Spotify Music Converter is all you need.

TuneFab Spotify Music Converter empowers the powerful ability to rip music from Spotify, and also podcast content without hassle. It has enabled integration with the official Spotify web player, so that you are able to access all podcasts provided in Spotify's library and download Spotify to MP3, M4A, WAV, FLAC, AIFF, ALAC, AAC format in selectable audio quality. After that, you can transfer the DRM-free Spotify podcasts to all devices and play them offline without any limitations.

Now, let's check out how to download Spotify podcasts to MP3 with this tool. Below we will take the Windows version as an example. As the program interface and operation steps on Mac are very similar on Windows, you can also follow the tutorial below and process downloading Spotify episodes to MP3 without hassle: