How to Fix Spotify Songs Greyed Out

By Li ZhangUpdated on December 16, 2022

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It’s common that you might find songs that were always available in your Spotify playlists to suddenly be greyed out. Sometimes, you may just notice that the songs are occasionally greyed out in the search result and the amount of those songs seems to be increasing. Then you won't be able to play greyed out songs normally. You’ll only see greyed out songs if you enabled the Spotify setting that allow you see unavailable songs in your playlists, or those songs will disappear from your playlists. Here are three main causes that lead to Spotify songs greyed out. In the next part we have list 4 solutions to fix Spotify songs greyed out, offering the extra way for you to download Spotify to MP3, so that you can play them offline everywhere at anytime.

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Part 1. Why Spotify Songs Are Greyed Out?

1.Area restrictions: Some songs just aren’t available in some area in the world. That availability is decided by whoever owns the copyright to the song (usually the label that produced the album), and the availability can change sometimes.

2.Network issues: A poor network connection issue can cause songs to be greyed out. In fact, nobody know what exactly the problem is.

3.Premium subscription expires: Spotify has music contents protection agreements with music labels and other copyright holders in order to access songs within the Spotify platform. All the music you subscribe and download from Spotify are caches files, these music contents will be unplayable once your music subscription ends, since the music is DRM-protected, which is a specially audio format only for Spotify, avoid anyone copy music with official way for outside Spotify usage.

Part 2. 4 Solutions to Fix Spotify Songs Greyed Out

Now you may have known some possible reasons for Spotify greyed out songs. Let's learn 4 practical solutions to fix Spotify songs greyed out.

Way 1. Check Network Connection
One of the most easy solution is to check the network connection. A stable Internet connection can help to listen to Spotify Music smoothly. If you use a smartphone, you can go to Settings > Cellular to check whether the Spotify option is turned on. If it is not, turn it on.

Way 2. Add Spotify Songs Again
If you find other apps work well with the internet connection except Spotify. Then you can try to add these greyed-out songs on Spotify to your playlist again. This may help some users who met the Spotify songs greyed out issue.

Way 3. Clear Cache Data of Spotify
Spotify itself might get some errors, and the errors of Spotify probably bring about the greyed-out songs on Spotify. In this case, clean the cache of Spotify from your device. Alternatively, you can delete the Spotify app from your phone and reinstall it from the app store.

Way 4. Log out and Log in Spotify Again
Sometimes, the abnormal status of your Spotify account will lead to songs being greyed. Try to log out and log in your Spotify account again, then browse your music library and listen to those songs you've added to the playlist.

If you have try all these method above but none can help, here is another extra solution to fix Spotify songs greyed out. It would be better if you could download Spotify unplayable songs so you can listen to Spotify Music offline anywhere even without the network connection, or without music subscription. In the next section, we will show you the best way to download Spotify songs for playing offline.

Part 3. Bonus: Download Spotify to MP3 and Play Them Everywhere

If you want to keep Spotify Music songs forever and never get the songs greyed out, you could download Spotify Music as local files for offline playback, instead of saving them as cache files. To make this true, UkeySoft Spotify Music Converter can do you a favor, Let’s know more about this professional music converter tool.

UkeySoft Spotify Music Converter is a great music converter and downloader for Spotify. It is compatible with both Windows and Mac computers, capable of convert Spotify Music to popular audio formats with the lossless audio quality and ID3 tags, including MP3, M4A, AAC, WAV, FLAC, AIFF. After downloading Spotify Music to MP3 with 5X faster conversion speed, you can play them everywhere, and no need to worry about the songs being greyed.

After conversion, you will not only listen to greyed out songs on Spotify, but also play Spotify songs without Spotify app. Instead, you are able to play Spotify songs through any music player, such as iTunes, VLC media player, Windows Media Player, QuickTime, Apple Music, AIMP, Musicolet Music Player, YouTube Music, etc,. What's more, you could transfer converted Spotify songs to your portable devices for offline playback, including MP3 player, iPod Nano, iOS, Android, USB drive, SD card, PSP, Xbox, etc,.

Highlight of UkeySoft Spotify Music Converter

• Download Spotify Music to MP3 and more popular audio formats
• Preserve with lossless audio quality and ID3 tags
• Listen to greyed out songs on Spotify
• Play Spotify songs without Spotify app
• Play Spotify songs through any music player
• Transfer Spotify songs to portable devices for offline playback

Tutorial to Download Spotify to MP3

Step 1. Run UkeySoft Spotify Music Converter
After installation, launch UkeySoft Spotify Music Converter on your Mac or Windows PC. Then it will immediately load the built-in Spotify web player. Just log in your Spotify account by clicking "Log in" on the top right corner in program.

Step 2. Set the Output Parameters for Spotify
Click on the gear icon button. In the pop-up window, you can set the output format (in this case select “MP3” option), bit rate, sample rate, and output path for Spotify songs.

Step 3. Add Spotify Songs to UkeySoft
Find the songs or playlists you want to download to MP3 on the Spotify app, by clicking the red "+" button.

Step 4. Download Spotify Music to MP3
Once all the settings are set well, just tap on the "Convert" button, and UkeySoft program will immediately download songs to MP3 and export Spotify songs to your local drive.

When finished, click on "History" to get the well downloaded Spotify songs.

Finished. Now you can play output MP3 Spotify Music songs everywhere, without worrying about the songs being greyed. Play Spotify songs through any music player, such as iTunes, VLC media player, Windows Media Player, QuickTime, Apple Music, AIMP, Musicolet Music Player, YouTube Music, etc,. In addition, you could transfer converted MP3 Spotify songs to your portable devices for offline playback, like MP3 player, iPod Nano, iOS, Android, USB drive, SD card, PSP, Xbox, etc,.

Li Zhang

Justin Sabrina has over 10 years of content writing experience. She specializes in product reviews, how-to guides, tips and tricks, top lists, etc. on data encryption, multi-media conversion, screen recording and iOS unlocking. At UkeySoft, she performs in-depth research SEO copywriting and collaborates with our R & D team to offer effective software solution, most of her articles on software are helpful and easy to read, helping our reader easily solve problems through using software or apps.

Li Zhang

Li Zhang is a sophisticated editor for UkeySoft in tech blog writing, as well as a SEO and content marketing expert. She has been writing related article about multimedia conversion, streaming music and streaming video since 2018. Also, she's starting to write article about data security, including articles about file lock, USB encryption, DVD encryption, etc. Each helpful tutorial and solution is based on her practical tests, she is aways energetic and trustworthy in this field.

Li Zhang

Chester is an experienced editor for UkeySoft focused on tech article writing, software & hardware produce review and tutorial. He specializes in composing posts about music conversion, video downloading, video conversion, screen recording and other tech knowledge tips. He always understands user needs and pain points and familiar with all kinds of multimedia conversion software and streaming music downloader on the market. So far, he has published 400+ helpful tech articles of software reviews, how-to guides to help reader in need.

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