Once you installed the app, it allows you to easily transfer your music library:
How to transfer Spotify songs to Apple Music It offers support to basically every music streaming service available.
a lot of steps just to be able to listen to the songs that you have saved locally on your phone so hopefully Spotify makes it a little easier to access in future versions.
(All the songs that you’ve downloaded are automatically “liked,” so it makes some sort of sense that this is where they’d be found, but it’s still confusing.) Once you’re there, go to the “Liked Songs” playlist, where all of your downloaded songs live.
Next to that bar is a button that says “Filters.” Click that, then filter by “Downloads.”
These instructions are the same whether you have the iOS or Android version of Spotify. The “Your Library” section of the app not only looks different, but Spotify has eliminated the “Songs” section, leaving just “Playlists,” “Artists,” and “Albums.” Don’t worry, all your songs are still there.
Having easy access to these downloaded songs and albums is important to me, but the latest Spotify update that’s rolling out now (version 8.5.9.737 for Android and 8.5.7.601 for iOS) makes them harder to find for premium users. I can listen without buying on-flight Wi-Fi, and every day during my commute on the NYC subway when the Wi-Fi and LTE signals inevitably cut out underground. It’s really handy to have tunes stored locally on my phone for a multitude of reasons.
Perhaps I’m in the minority, but I still download a lot of music from Spotify.