How to Play Spotify Music on Apple TV

Spotify is one of the most popular streaming music services that provide access to over 70 million tracks and other content from artists all over the world. Spotify attempts to offer a better service by making itself compatible with different devices, and now it is available across a range of devices, including computers, phones, tablets, speakers, TVs, and cars, to meet your listening needs in different situations.

If you want to play music on a big screen, you could stream Spotify music on TV, such as Apple TV. Spotify app is available on Apple TV 4th generation and onward. You can download the Spotify app via the tvOS App store directly or enable “automatically install apps” in tvOS settings to get it. Although Spotify is not available on the 1st-3rd generation of Apple TV, you can play Spotify music on these TVs by using AirPlay, which enables beaming audio and video content onto Apple TV using just about any device. Alternatively, you can use a third-party’s tool to download Spotify music to your computer, and use your computer as a remote with Apple TV to play the music on other apps you have installed on Apple TV 1st to 3rd Generation streaming boxes. In this article, we will show you the ways to play Spotify Music on Apple TV in detail.

As mentioned, the Spotify app is integrated into Apple TV 4th generation, so it is the directest way to stream Spotify Music on Apple TV. Here are the steps:

Since Apple TV 1st, 2nd, and 3rd generation doesn’t have App Stores and cannot install the Spotify app on the TVs, you can instead use the AirPlay feature, which is native to nearly every Apple device, to stream your music. Please follow the below steps.

Here we will introduce a way to play Spotify music on any Apple TV. What you should do is to rip music from Spotify to your computer, and then sync the music files to whatever music app that has installed on your Apple TV.

You may ask how we can do that as all songs from Spotify are protected and cannot be moved to other apps or devices. We all know that Spotify offers ad-supported music for free users and ad-free music for users who has a premium account, and the additional feature, offline listening is offered to its subscribers only. With TunePat Spotify Converter, however, whether you are a free user or premium user, you can easily get Spotify music converted to MP3 or other formats on your computer.

Tool Requirement: TunePat Spotify Converter

TunePat Spotify Converter is featured to convert music from Spotify to MP3, WAV, AAC, AIFF, and FLAC format. No need to install the Spotify desktop app on your computer, this program is equipped with a built-in web browser and can convert Spotify music at 10X speed. Once converted, you will get unrestricted audio files with the ID3 tags kept. More importantly, you are freely able to play the converted music on any device.

Key Features of TunePat Spotify Converter

On any Apple TV, iTunes must be the fundamental app installed on Apple TV already. You can add the converted Spotify music to iTunes on the computer, then use Home Sharing to access the songs from the iTunes library on Apple TV.

Generally, you can choose one of the above three ways to stream Spotify Music on Apple TV as your need. The first method is the most convenient way to stream Spotify Music on Apple TV, but it only applies to Apple TV 4 or higher version. Similarly, even though the second method can use AirPlay to play Spotify Music on Apple 1 to 3, it works only when you have another iOS device, like an iPhone or iPad. It is not friendly to Android devices.

Regardless of the Apple TV models, the third method would be the most practical. By converting Spotify Music with TunePat Spotify Converter, you can get the same music as the original audio files and can transfer Spotify music to any device and play them anywhere at any time. Besides, the program is available on both Windows PC and Mac, so you can also use Home Sharing on Windows PC to play Spotify music on Apple TV.