I'm not sure you understand what a minidisc is or how it works. Its like a recordable miniature CD in a plastic shell that were popular in the 90s, they can't be remotely erased without using fire or nuclear weapons
Since posting I've discovered this absolutely can be done btw, I was very surprised to find out myself. Spotify actually offers a digital output with a fairly high bitrate on the max setting. There was a question of legality which another user brought up, so you have to stick to stuff you own a physical copy of which is what I've been doing.
Or you can also just press record on the minidisc player and play spotify through the minidisc's DAC and it sounds about 1000% better. You can pickup an old minidisc player for about £30 whereas a DAC is about £50-£70, I'd say its a pretty nifty trick......
You have misunderstood Steve. Spotify remains the owner of the music you download. When you stop subscription to Spotify, it is illegal to possess music downloaded from Spotify. Similar to Sky movie downloads. You can listen to the music only as long as you have a Spotify subscription.
If the music is available on Spotify Free, you can continue to listen without paying (but can't download in free account).
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Can you download music from Spotify?
Yes and no. With Spotify Premium you can set music to be available "offline" but it's not the same as downloading music in the traditional sense. For example, you can't try to game the system by downloading an album then cancelling your subscription at a later date. And you can't download the tracks to burn them to a CD or copy them to other devices.
The idea of Spotify's offline mode is to allow you to have access to your favourite music when you're trying to save mobile data or travelling somewhere where access to the internet might not be easy.