And if you discontinue the premium service, your account will be reverted to a Free ad-based service, and the songs you’ve downloaded from Spotify would be removed and you won’t be able to listen to them offline either. Thus, you are limited to downloading and playing the songs offline within Spotify and you cannot play them on other platforms. Spotify uses an encrypted file extension (Ogg Vorbis) as its streaming format- not an MP3 file. Why is that? Move on to learn more about the service and tips. And if you cancel your premium subscription, you may find nothing in the end. Now you’ve found the files, but you cannot open any of them – or even identify the songs that the files hold. You can change it to another location if you’d like to.
The Data folder within is what contains all of your. In this list of files, find the Spotify folder and open it. This should bring up a Windows Explorer window of the AppData\Local folder within your Windows user profile location. Here, type in localappdata and press Enter. The default storage location should be set to C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Spotify\Storage. To do so, press the Windows + R keys to bring up a Run prompt. To check the location, you can simply open Spotify, go to Settings > Show Advanced Settings > Offline Songs Storage.
It’s not difficult to locate where the downloaded Spotify songs are stored on the local drive, but they may be useless for you even if you find them at last. Part 1: How to Locate Spotify Songs on Local Computer
