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“I have songs on my PC that are not on Spotify servers, but I wish to listen to them with Spotify. How can I import my local music to Spotify?”

Though Spotify offers a large music library, sometimes you may find that the songs you are looking for are not available on Spotify. One of the unique aspects of Spotify is that it blends a typical streaming music service with the playback of music you have stored on your own PC. This way you can supplement Spotify’s 50 million-track library with other tracks you own that don't appear in the Spotify database of tunes.

Install QuickTime on your computer to allow most of these tracks to be played on Spotify.mp3.m4p (unless it contains video).mp4 (if QuickTime is installed on your computer) The iTunes lossless format (M4A) isn't supported. If your file isn’t supported, we do our best to match it with songs from the Spotify catalog.

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Normally, when you install the Spotify app successfully on your computer, the program will automatically search and sync locally stored music on your hard drive. But, what if you've got a collection of MP3s spread across several folders or even external storage? Spotify obviously won't know about these, so sometimes, you have to manually add these tracks.

Step 1 Add local music tracks to a Spotify

  1. Since Spotify’s latest (0.5.3.56) update, premium users on Android are not able store their offline music onto their external SD cards, which is a bit of a nightmare considering the limited capacity of standard internal storage of phones.
  2. Wonder on how to transfer Spotify music to USB for enjoying in the car? Here's a video to help you convert Spotify songs/playlists/albums for transferring th.
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  4. The app's main function is: basic backup/synchronization of one or more source folders to a target storage device. Copying only happens in 1 direction. Possible data storage devices are: - A hard drive of the computer. An external USB storage device: USB sticks, USB hard drives or SSD drives. A network storage station: a shared network drive.
  5. Ensure that your external storage device is formatted so that Mac and iOS devices may read it. For example, the standard NTFS file format, commonly used by Windows, is not supported by the system.

Go into Preferences first. (Windows users can find it under Edit, while Mac users can find it under Spotify.)

Then scroll down to Local Files and select ADD A SOURCE.

With the folder added, any unrestricted music contained within will be immediately imported into the Spotify library. Then you will see the music added under the Local Files tab in the main menu tree.

Step 2 Create a new playlist

After adding the music to your desktop’s library, you’ll need to create a new playlist to put it into by clicking the New Playlist button down in the bottom left-hand corner of the Windows desktop client. As an example, we’ve created a new playlist named “Copied”,

Once the playlist is ready, jump back over to the Local Files tab, and add the song you want synced to the playlist.

Now you can freely enjoy your local music tracks on Spotify.

Note: Spotify supports only .mp3, .mp4, and .m4p files. Not includes .mp4 files that contain video. If QuickTime is installed on your computer then .m4a files are also supported.

Extra Tips: How to Export Spotify Songs as Local Music?

Spotify enables you to import local music to Spotify. Can you export Spotify songs as local music? Logically, you are not able to do that, as Spotify is a streaming music service offering songs in a proprietary format. However, you can turn to Sidify to save Spotify songs in MP3 format so that you can keep them as local files. Here's a step-by-step video tutorial for your reference:

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Since Spotify’s latest (0.5.3.56) update, premium users on Android are not able store their offline music onto their external SD cards, which is a bit of a nightmare considering the limited capacity of standard internal storage of phones. I recently bought a Galaxy Note 2 and had been storing the music on the phone until today I realised I was running dangerously out of space.

Julian Young asked Spotify for an official comment and the response he received:

Yes you are right the new App does not support external SD cards and only focuses on internal systems. I am very sorry that your needs are not covered by this and I will happily forward your request to our development team.

We do everything to provide the best possible service to our customers and aim to cover all demands and needs. I would also like to thank you for bringing this to us because it will support our development cycle.

However, on the same page and on various other sites including the official Spotify community, there are instructions on a workaround to this issue which I have successfully managed to implement. The following are the steps I took to accomplish this, so if you’re also looking to store your Spotify music on your external SD card, give it a go. It’s really straight forward and took me less than 5 mins in total.


  1. Uninstall the Spotify app from your phone
  2. Install an earlier version of Spotify – there are several online, but I used this one from Android Drawer
  3. Start the app but don’t login
  4. Select the SD location from your Android’s Menu button and locate your external SD card*
  5. Save and close (Some sites instruct you to log in and make one playlist available offline before closing down the app, but the app kept crashing on me).
  6. Go to Play Store, and update Spotify app
  7. Your offline playlists will now be stored on the external SD card while rocking the latest Spotify Android app!

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*External SD card locations for various Android phones

Samsung Galaxy Note 2: /storage/extSdCard

Samsung Galaxy S2: /mnt/sdcard/external_sd

Samsung Galaxy S3: /mnt/extSdCard/

Samsung Galaxy S: /mnt/sdcard/external_sd


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LG P990 2X: /mnt/sdcard/_ExternalSD