Can I use a Spotify song in a movie?

Q: Can you burn a song from Spotify?

A: As all songs from Spotify are encrypted, you cant burn Spotify songs to a CD directly. To burn Spotify to CD, you need to remove digital rights management copyright restrictions from Spotify first. Then you have to convert Spotify songs to unrestricted digital music files, in order to burn Spotify tracks to CD.

If you are trying to directly add music from Spotify to movie maker, and edit a short video on your phone with something like iMovie, or import your Spotify songs to any other video apps, you will find out that it seems to be an impossible task.

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Part A. Record Spotify Music with NoteBurner
Part B. Add Spotify Songs to a Video with Any Video Converter
Can you use Spotify music on YouTube videos?
Can you burn a song from Spotify?
How do I use Spotify for videos?
How do you put Spotify as your background music?

Spotify is a streaming music service, offering proprietary protected songs, and not licensed for being used on any video editor. Popular editing tools like iMovie support importing songs in common formats, such as MP3, WAV, AAC, but it doesn’t support the protected music from Spotify.

In other words, you are unable to import songs from Spotify to any video editing tool unless you can get rid of the protection from Spotify. So how to get "free" Spotify songs? Please move on and you will find what you need. Besides, an easy way will be introduced to add your Spotify song to your video project to perfectly finish the whole process.

Part A. Record Spotify Music with NoteBurner

NoteBurner Spotify Music Converter is a professional music recorder tool specially designed to record Spotify songs & playlists and convert them to MP3, AAC, FLAC, AIFF, WAV, or ALAC format. Here is a simple guide on how to record Spotify music with the program:

For Mac users, please refer to How to Download Music from Spotify to MP3 on Mac for detailed steps.

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1 Get NoteBurner Spotify Music Converter Installed on Your Computer

2 Import Your Song from Spotify to NoteBurner

Launch NoteBurner Spotify Music converter. Click the "+" button on the upper right. There will be a pop-up window prompting you to copy & paste / drag & drop the song link from Spotify.

3 Choose Output Format and Output Path

Click the "Settings" button on the upper right. Here you can choose output format (MP3 / AAC / WAV / FLAC / AIFF / ALAC), output quality (320kbps, 256kbps, 192kbps, 128kbps), as well as output path.

4 Get Free Spotify Music

Click the "Convert" button and the Spotify song you selected in Step 1 will soon be converted and downloaded to the output format you customized in Step 2.

When the conversion is done, you can find the Spotify song is in open music format by clicking "Converted" button on the left side or by directly going to the output path you set in the previous step.

Part B. Add Spotify Songs to a Video with Any Video Converter

Now that the Spotify song you get is in an open format, you can freely add it to any video editor. Here we introduce a free yet powerful program - Any Video Converter Free to show you how to add and edit a song to a target video.

1 Download, Install and Launch Any Video Converter

2 Clip Spotify Audio for Your Video Project

Add the audio you downloaded from Spotify. Click the "Clip" button to enter the clip interface where you can set the Start and End point.

3 Add the Customized Spotify Audio to Video

After customizing audio clips, please choose an audio output format you like and click "Convert" to save the settings. Then add the video which you want to add Spotify audio in to Any Video Converter Free. Click "Add Audio" button to upload the audio you customized in Step 2. Finally, choose the video output format you want and click the Convert button to add your Spotify song to the video.

Tips: You can also import the converted Spotify songs to iMovie, Movie Maker, Camtasia, or any other video editor for editing as you like.

Note: The free trial version of NoteBurner Spotify Music Converter enables you to convert the first 3 minutes of each song. You can buy the full version to unlock the limitation.

Can you use Spotify music on YouTube videos?

You can easily convert your song playlists from any platform to video playlists on YouTube. When you transfer playlists from services such as Spotify to YouTube, our app matches the title and artist, automatically pulling their music videos.

Can you burn a song from Spotify?

A: As all songs from Spotify are encrypted, you can't burn Spotify songs to a CD directly. To burn Spotify to CD, you need to remove digital rights management copyright restrictions from Spotify first. Then you have to convert Spotify songs to unrestricted digital music files, in order to burn Spotify tracks to CD.

How do I use Spotify for videos?

Videos are available for some podcasts and songs on Spotify, but not all of them. To watch a video on Spotify, play a podcast or song with an associated video, then tap the video icon in the mini player.

How do you put Spotify as your background music?

Enable Spotify to Use Data in the Background 1) Go to Settings > Apps > Manage Apps and find Spotify then tap it. 2) Tap Data Usage, then toggle the Background data setting on to allow Spotify to play while using data.