Add Music To Video App Using Spotify

Spotify Songs Can't Be Added to iMovie Directly

In our daily life, we often share videos on YouTube, Tiktok or other websites or apps. Before sharing a video, we need to create videos with video editing software on Windows or Mac, or with video editing application on iOS or Android. iMovie, the intuitive yet powerful video editing application from Apple company, is provided for all Mac, iPhone and iPad users for free. However, as a part of Apple's ecosystem, iMovie is not available on Windows or Android.

Open iTunes on your computer and click the 'File' 'Add File to Library' (or 'Add Folder to Library') to import. Open iMovie app on your iDevice. Tap the 'Add Media' button to import the Spotify songs you want to add, and tap. Tap 'My Music' to find the songs that have. The first time you connect your iPod to Spotify, you’ll be asked if you want to erase your iPod and sync it with Spotify. In subsequent syncs, you aren’t asked to do this again as long as you continue using Spotify for your syncs. Click Erase iPod & Sync with Spotify, if it appears in the Spotify window. Drag and drop Spotify songs/playlists. DRmare software depends on the Spotify app to work.

Music always takes an important part in movie creation and video sharing. Spotify is the most popular streaming music service, as of September 30, 2020, there are more than 144 million paid users and over 320 million monthly active users including Spotify free users according to Spotify company information. It's not strange that many users use both Spotify and iMovie and want to use Spotify songs in iMovie video project as background music.

What kinds of music formats can be used in iMovie? The answer is MP3, M4A, WAV or AIFF as they are the music formats you can add to music library of iTunes or Music app on Mac. If you launch iMovie on Mac, create a new video project, import some video clips and photos and add them to project, then click 'Audio' tab, you will find 'Music', 'Sound Effects' and 'GagareBand' in the left panel. 'Music' here refers to the Music app in macOS Catalina 10.15 or above.

Click 'Music' and all your songs, including the ones you purchased from iTunes Store and the ones you added to music library from other sources, will be dislayed in a list. However, if you subscribed Apple Music and downloaded some Apple Music songs in Music app, you will find 'xxx files are unplayable and unavailable'. That is to say, downloaded songs from Apple Music which is the service from the same company of iMovie developer, can't be used in iMovie. If you realized the fact that Spotify is the biggest competitor of Apple Music, will you still think Spotify songs can be added to iMovie video project? Of course, there is no way.

With Spotify Free, users even can't download songs from Spotify, so it's impossible to add songs to Music app from Spotify Free. With Spotify Premium, users can download songs for offline playback, however, the songs are protected Ogg files, which can't be added to iTunes or Music app, nor it can be converted by normal audio converters which can convert unprotected Ogg to MP3 or M4A. So it's also impossible to add songs to Music app from Spotify Premium.

If you still want to your favorite Spotify songs as background music in your iMovie video project, the only solution is to convert Spotify songs to MP3, M4A or WAV first. Luckily, we have TuneMobie Spotify Music Converter which is the best helper to add Spotify songs to iMovie.

Spotify Music Converter: Best Solution to Add Spotify Songs to iMovie

TuneMobie Spotify Music Converter can easily convert Spotify songs, albums and playlists to plain MP3, M4A or WAV files, and keep All ID3 tags like song title, album, artist, track number and artwork in output MP3/M4A files, regardless of Spotify plan you are using. If you are using Spotify Free, all audio ads will be skipped automatically.

TuneMobie Spotify Music Converter is very intuitive and easy-to-use, you only need to add Spotify links in the program, and Spotify Music Converter will get the rest done. You can either use drag & drop or copy & paste operation to add Spotify music to the program.

TuneMobie Spotify Music Converter allows you to rename output files by ID3 tags like song title, album, artist, track number, hyphen, space, etc. as well as sort output files into folders by album, artist or artist/album. On Windows, you can also enjoy 5X conversion speed.

Spotify Music Converter works with Spotify application, and it's fully compatible with latest Windows, Mac and Spotify. The free trial version allows you to convert 3 minutes of each song. If you want to add Spotify songs to iMovie video project, download the free trial version to have a try first.

Convert Spotify Songs to MP3/M4A/WAV and Add to iMovie Video Project

With TuneMobie Spotify Music Converter, adding Spotify songs to iMovie video project as background music is as easy as a piece of cake. Convert Spotify songs to MP3, M4A, WAV, etc., add the output files into Music app and then you can choose them from 'Music' in iMovie. TuneMobie Spotify Music Converter is very easy-to-use, check the steps below for your reference.

Step 1: Launch TuneMobie Spotify Music Converter

Launch TuneMobie Spotify Music Converter, Spotify application will be also launched automatically. Please keep running Spotify in the background before the conversion is done.

Step 2: Add Spotify Songs

There are two ways to add Spotify songs, albums or playlist from Spotify to Spotify Music Converter. They are 'drag & drop' and 'link copy & paste'. Both ways are very simple.

Drag & Drop: Simply display Spotify and Spotify Music Converter on the screen in the same time, drag songs, albums or playlists from Spotify and drop into Spotify Music Converter.

Link Copy & Paste: Right-click a song, an album or a playlist in Spotify, move to 'Share' and click 'Copy Song Link', 'Copy Album Link' or 'Copy Playlist Link' to get the link first. Then go back to Spotify Music Converter, click 'Add files' and paste the link in the blank bar displayed in the bottom left of the program, and click 'Add' button.

No matter which way you use, Spotify Music Converter will detect all the songs in the album or playlist, check all the songs and ask you to choose, in case that you don't want to download some of the songs.

Step 3: Choose MP3, M4A or WAV for iMovie

Spotify Music Converter provides MP3, M4A, WAV, FLAC and some other output audio formats. You need to choose from MP3, M4A or WAV because you need to add the output files into Music app for iMovie later. The default output format is 320kbps MP3 and it's good enough for iMovie, however, you can also click Options and click Advanced tab to change output format. If necessary, set how to rename and sort output files in General tab.

Step 4: Start Spotify Music Conversion

Now, simply click 'Convert' button to start converting Spotify songs to MP3, M4A or WAV. After conversion, you can click 'History' to find the converted songs and click the little blue folder icon locate the output files.

Step 5: Add Output Songs to Music App

Now, launch Music app and click menu 'File' > 'Import', browse the output folder of Spotify Music Converter and add the songs. Or you can import the folder to add all the songs in it.

Step 6: Create Movies with Spotify Songs in iMovie

Get back to iMovie, click 'Audio' tab and click 'Music', now the well-converted Spotify songs added to Music app can be found in the song list. Use your favorite Spotify songs as background music. After that, set Titles, Backgrounds and Transitions for your movie in respective tab. After everything is ready, you can click the up arrow button in the upper right to export your video project as MP4 video.

If you are using both Spotify and iMovie on iPhone or iPad, downloaded songs from Spotify Premium won't be displayed in iMovie either. What you need to do is to convert Spotify songs to MP3, M4A or WAV on Mac with Spotify Music Converter, add the output songs to Music app and transfer them to your iPhone or iPad. After that, you will be able to add well-converted Spotify songs to iMovie video project as background music.

Final Words

Spotify songs can't be added to iMovie directly, but Spotify Music Converter can easily resolve the problem. By converting Spotify songs to MP3 or M4A, you can not only use Spotify songs as background music in your iMovie video project, but also use them in other video editing software or DVD authoring software like Windows Movie Maker, Filmora, Sony Vegas, Adobe Premiere, etc. If you are thinking of adding Spotify songs to iMovie, do not hesitate to download TuneMobie Spotify Music Converter to have a try first.

“How to make a photo slideshow with Spotify music as background music? – I just had a very wonderful holiday abroad and taken a lot of beautiful photos. I would like to make a photo slideshow with some of my favorite Spotify songs as background music. But I was unable to add Spotify music as background music when I tried to make slideshow. I couldn’t even move the Spotify music to photo slideshow maker app. Can you help me with this? Why can’t I make photo slideshow with Spotify music? Is there any tool for this? How to make a slideshow with Spotify music as background?”

As one of the most popular online music streaming services, Spotify offers millions of wonderful music for people to listen to online. Sometimes we might want to make use of these Spotify songs for other uses, like turning them as background music for our photo slideshow, listening on other portable devices, sharing with others, etc. However, you may have found that you can’t directly make a photo slideshow with Spotify music as background music. If you are looking for a solution for this, this page would be exactly for you.

Part 1: Why Can’t We Make a Slideshow with Spotify Music Directly

Spotify is a digital music, podcast, and video streaming service that gives you access to millions of songs and other content from artists all over the world. It has both free plan and Premium plan, both of which could allow you to search and browse songs of desired kinds, get music listening recommendations from personalized features like Discover Weekly, Release Radar, and Daily Mix, build your own station and collection, etc. The free plan allows you to listen to all Spotify music with ads, while the Premium plan removes ads and allows you to set Spotify music as offline mode on no more than 3 devices but costs you $9.99 per month.

Add Music To Video App Using Spotify Music Converter

It should be noted that even the Premium plan of Spotify allows you to download Spotify music for offline listening, it still requires you to make use of Spotify app to open these songs you have set into Offline Mode. This is because that all Spotify songs are encrypted with DRM protection, which prevents Spotify music from being used by unauthorized people or communities. Therefore, you couldn’t import Spotify music to photo slideshow app for adding as background music for photo slideshow. However, you could make use of some Spotify music downloader and converter tool to remove DRM protection and then download Spotify songs to computer, so as to make a photo slideshow with Spotify music as background music, which will be described in detail below.

Part 2: How to Download Spotify Music for Making Photo Slideshow

As mentioned above, you could download Spotify music to your computer and then add Spotify music as background music to your photo slideshows. You need to use some Spotify song downloader tool that could help you remove the DRM protection and then download Spotify songs to your computer. Leawo Prof. DRM is the best Spotify music downloader program you could ever get.

Featuring a professional Spotify DRM removal and Spotify song downloader, Leawo Prof. DRM could remove DRM protection upon Spotify songs and download and convert Spotify music to MP3, AAC, M4A, M4B, WAV, FLAC files free of DRM protection, so that you could easily add the downloaded Spotify songs as background music to the photo slideshow you want to create. It provides high quality music downloading since it could allow you to adjust the output MP3 profile parameters like codec, bit rate, sample rate, etc.
Download and install Leawo Prof. DRM on your computer. Then, follow the below steps to learn how to download and convert Spotify music to DRM-free MP3 file.

Note: You need to download and install Spotify app on your computer. Then, log in with your own account and password.

Step 1: Open Leawo Spotify DRM Remover

On the home interface of Leawo Prof. DRM, click the “Spotify DRM Remover” option. Once you open this Spotify DRM Remover, it will automatically launch the Spotify app on your computer.

Step 2: Add Spotify music to Spotify DRM Remover

Then, directly drag and drop Spotify songs to Spotify DRM Remover, or click the “Add Files” button to add Spotify playlist URL for Spotify music downloading and converting.

Step 3: Set output format and adjust output audio quality

After loading Spotify songs, click the pencil icon in each loaded Spotify music title to enter the “Edit” panel, where you need to choose MP3 as output format in the “Format” box and adjust audio parameters including Channel, Sample Rate, and Bit rate. After that, click “Apply to All” button to apply these settings to all loaded Spotify songs.

Step 4: Set output directory

After setting output format, return to the main interface and at the bottom set output directory in the “Output” box.

Step 5: Download and convert Spotify songs

Finally, press the blue button “Convert” at the bottom right. This Spotify DRM Remover would start downloading Spotify songs and converting Spotify songs to DRM-free MP3 files immediately.

After downloading completes, you get Spotify songs without DRM protection. Now, when you create photo slideshow, you could insert these downloaded Spotify songs into your photo slideshow as background music freely.

Leawo Prof. DRM is not only a Spotify DRM Remover to remove DRM protection from Spotify songs, and download and convert Spotify songs to DRM-free MP3 files. But also, it could remove iTunes DRM and convert iTunes DRM M4V video to DRM-free MP4 video, convert iTunes DRM M4P music to DRM-free MP3 file, convert iTunes/Audible audiobooks to DRM-free audiobooks, and convert eBooks from Kindle, Kobo and Adobe Digital Edition. It’s a comprehensive DRM removal and converter tool for you.

Part 3: 3 Photo Slideshow Maker Software Apps to Make a Photo Slideshow

For your convenience, we have collected some top photo slideshow maker software apps to help you make photo slideshow on your computer. With these photo slideshow maker software tools, you could easily create photo slideshow and add music you like as background music. Check these photo slideshow maker software apps below and choose your favorite one.

Leawo Video Converter

As a professional video converter tool, Leawo Video Converter enables you to convert video and audio files between 180+ file formats including MP4 to MKV, MOV to MP4, MP3 to AAC, etc. for diverse media players and devices. It has a photo slideshow maker inside that could generate photos into photo slideshow in one click. Meanwhile, the internal photo slideshow enables you to edit photo slideshows like adding external photos, changing photo position, set output photo slideshow video effect, adding background music, etc.

Windows Movie Maker

As the default editor of Windows OS, Windows Movie Maker is a video editing program that allows users to add their favorite collection of music, videos and photos into slides. Videos can be even directly recorded from webcam and then merged into videos. It is much easier to apply visual effects and animation to selective portions of slides.
Photostage Slideshow Software

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Photostage Slideshow Software

Photostage allows users to create professional, personalised slideshows with its variety of editing tools and options. Slideshows can include images,music, transitions and many more exiting tools and actions. Photostage Slideshow Software highlights include an extensive offer of photo editing features. The output options far surpass its competitors as all image, video and audio options are supported. In addition, slideshows can easily be shared by burning a DVD or uploading it to YouTube.

Part 4: How to Make Photo Slideshow Video with Leawo Video Converter

As one of the best photo slideshow makers, Leawo Video Converter enables you to make photo slideshows from all your photos you have taken during your holidays and trips. It offers you the easiest solution to make photo slideshow. You could freely edit generated photo slideshow as you like. What’s more, you could save created photo slideshow videos in 180+ file formats, so that you could play back created photo slideshow video on various media players and devices.

The below steps would show you how to make photo slideshow with downloaded Spotify music by using Leawo Video Converter. Download and install Leawo Video Converter below.

Step 1: Add photos

After downloading and installing Leawo Video Converter (it’s part of Leawo Prof. Media), launch it and then click the “Video Converter” option on the home window. Then, under the “Convert” tab, click the “Add Photo” button to browse and add source photos. Added photos would be automatically generated into slideshow.

Open the “Video” tab, you could edit photo slideshow video by adding external photos, changing photo position, deleting existing photos, setting output photo slideshow video effect, etc.

Open the “Audio” tab and then click the “Add Music” button to browse and add downloaded Spotify music as background music. You could even set audio effect here.

Step 3: Set output format

After editing photos, return to the main interface and then click the button before the big green “Convert” button. Then, choose the “Change” button to enter the Profile panel, where you could select a format as output format for your photo slideshow video. You could even adjust the output profile parameters according to your player here.

Step 4: Set output directory

Then, click the big green “Convert” button. On the popup sidebar, set output directory in the “Save to” box.

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After setting output directory, click the bottom “Convert” button to start to output your photo slideshow video. You then only need to wait for some time until the conversion completes.