How to Sync Spotify Music to iPod Classic

By Justin SabrinaUpdated on December 17, 2022

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Spotify is the most popular streaming music service, and iPod Classic is one of the best MP3 players. Many users want to enjoy Spotify music on iPod Classic. Unfortunately, there is no Spotify app for the iPod Classic. Songs downloaded by Spotify Premium are DRM-protected Ogg Vorbis files that cannot be played on iPod Classic.

To play your favorite Spotify songs on your iPod Classic, as well as iPod Nano and iPod Shuffle, you can use a Spotify Music Converter provided below to download Spotify songs as MP3 or M4A, which is the audio format supported by iPod Classic. Before we get started, you can first understand what Spotify is.

CONTENTS

Part 1: How Much Do You Know About Spotify?

Spotify is one of Sweden's leading music streaming services, with a rich music collection that allows users to stream their favorite music from this huge audio streaming platform. To attract more subscribers, Spotify offers new users a 30-day free subscription experience. At the end of the day, they will be charged a certain subscription fee. A basic Spotify Premium plan for one user is $9.99 per month. A family plan costs $14.99 per month. If you have upgraded to Spotify Premium, I believe you will only get a better experience. You can get all the features such as "free of ads", "enhanced sound quality" especially the feature to listen offline you are required to subscribe to the Premium service.

Pros
1. Ad-free listening.
2. Offline listening
3. New releases: Artists can withhold their new songs from Spotify Free for up to two weeks.
4. Music quality: Free listeners can only listen to music at 160Kbps. Premium subscribers have access to 320Kbps, which is virtually indistinguishable from CD quality.
5. On Spotify Premium, you can skip as many songs as you want.

Cons
1. You can only download songs to 3 devices.
2. The total number of tracks you can download is 10000, which means you can only download 3333 songs per device.
3. You need to log in every 30 days to make sure your premium account is still valid.
4. This is not free.

Part 2: Best Spotify Music Converter: Convert Spotify Songs to DRM-free MP3/M4A

Basically, by using a Spotify premium account, you can download Spotify songs for offline listening, either on PC with Spotify desktop app, or on iOS or Android with Spotify App. However, the downloaded songs are Ogg Vorbis file format with DRM protection and can’t be recognized or played on iPod Classic. If you want to play Spotify songs on iPod Classic, you must download Spotify songs into these formats. This is where UkeySoft Spotify Music Converter is smart. As one of the best DRM music converters, UkeySoft Spotify Music Converteris great for downloading Spotify songs and playlists to MP3, M4A and other DRM-free audio formats. Moreover, the full ID3 tag is preserved, such as song title, album, artist, genre, artwork, vintage, etc., whether you are using Spotify Free or Spotify Premium.

Not only is the original music quality preserved, but the program can also batch convert your Spotify files at 5x speed. This way, you can enjoy Spotify music on different devices without restrictions, including iPod Shuffle / Nano / classic, iOS phones, Android phones, Zune, PSP and more. Now, with the help of UkeySoft Spotify Music Converter, you can easily fulfill the need to sync your Spotify songs and playlist to iPod and freely enjoy them while doing exercise.

The Main Features of UkeySoft Spotify Music Converter(for Mac or Windows):

• Remove DRM protection from Spotify songs, playlists, albums.
• Convert Spotify Music to plain MP3, AAC, WAV, FLAC.
• Batch convert songs with 100% lossless quality.
• Up to 5x speed and keep ID3 tags after conversion.
• Burn Spotify music to CD easily
• Share Spotify music via Email.

Part 3: Guide to Enjoy Spotify Songs on iPod Classic with Spotify Free or Premium Account

Things You'll Need:

A Computer running Mac OS or Windows OS
iPod Classic
The latest version of Spotify
UkeySoft Spotify Music Converter for Mac or UkeySoft Spotify Music Converter for Windows

Step 1. Launch UkeySoft Spotify Music Converter

Install and launch UkeySoft Spotify Music Converter and Spotify program will be automatically launched as well. Please keep running Spotify and do not close it during downloading and converting.

Step 2. Add Spotify Songs, Albums, Playlists or Artists

Click on "Add Files" and drag & drop songs, albums, playlists or artists to the interface directly from Spotify App on your Mac computer. If you are using Spotify web player, you can copy&paste the link of the song, album, playlist or artist to the bottom input area. The converter will automatically load all songs contained in the album or playlist.

Step 3. Choose Output Format as MP3/M4A

UkeySoft Spotify Music Converter supports MP3, M4A, WAV or FLAC as output format and MP3, M4A can be played on iPod Classic. Besides, you can also change sample rate and bitrate as you like.

Step 4. Start Converting Spotify Music to MP3/M4A for iPod Classic

Simply click "Convert" button to start converting Spotify music to MP3 or M4A format. All ID3 tags like song title, album, artist, artwork, etc. in original Spotify songs will be preserved. After conversion, you can click "History" button and open the output folder to locate the output songs.

Step 5. Transfer Downloaded Spotify Songs to iPod Classic

You can now connect your iPod Classic to computer with a USB cable. Launch iTunes and add the downloaded Spotify songs to iTunes library, then drag and drop them to your iPod classic directly. Finally, you can enjoy Spotify music on iPod classic freely.

Justin Sabrina

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.

Justin Sabrina

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