How to listen to Spotify while playing games on PlayStation

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For many game enthusiasts, a game session doesn't feel right unless having otheir favorite tunes playing in the background. Luckily, Sony PlayStation gaming consoles offer the option to fire up a music player while we race, explore, or do battle. You can listen to music while playing compatible PS5 and PS4 games. This feature is not available on PS3.

PS5: listen to Spotify

1. While in your game, press the PS button to go to the control centre and select Music .
2. Choose a song or podcast you want to play. Your selection starts playing automatically. The song that is playing appears as a card in the control centre .
3. Press the PS button to return to the game you were playing.

PS4: listen to Spotify

(Not available on PlayStation Now or Remote Play)

1. Press and hold the PS button on your controller to bring up the quick menu.
2. Select Music > Spotify .
3. Here you can skip songs, play/pause, or adjust the volume.

The song or podcast that's playing appears as a card in the control centre. Select the card to pause and access other playback controls. Press the PS button to return to the game that you were playing. While in a game or an app, you can press the PS button twice to return to your most recent card without going through the control centre.

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However, it will be annoying to hear ads while playing games if you only have Spotify free. Is there any way to block ads except subscribing to Spotify premium? Of course. PS5 and PS4 also allows you to play music from a USB drive. With the right tool, you can download Spotify songs, albums, playlists and podcasts to MP3 and then transfer them to USB drive to play on PS5/PS4 without ads.

Pazu Spotify Converter supports downloading any Spotify songs, albums, playlists and podcasts offline at a faster speed. It converts Spotify to MP3, M4A, WAV, FLAC, OGG, AIFF in batch. Pazu Spotify Converter uses the most advanced downloading technology to convert Spotify songs. So, it will keep the lossless audio quality of Spotify songs for you. The ID3 tags, metadata such as the year, album cover, etc. will be kept also. Follow the below steps to use Pazu Spotify Converter to download and convert Spotify to MP3.

Step 1 Run Pazu Spotify Converter

Download, install and run Pazu Spotify Converter on your Mac or Windows. Log in your Spotify account with the built-in Spotify web player.

Step 2 Add Spotify songs to Pazu Spotify Converter

Pazu Spoitfy Converter features built-in Spotify web player for you to browse or search Spotify songs, albums and playlists you want to download directly on the interface. You don’t need to install Spotify app. Click the album or playlist you want to download and then click the red icon to load all songs.

Step 3 Change the Output Settings

The default output format is M4A. Pazu Spotify Converter also supports MP3, AAC, FLAC, WAV, and AIFF. Click the gear icon on the top right corner to change output format or output quality. You can also change output folder and following:

• Output File Name: Rename your downloaded songs with any combination of Title, Artist, Album, Track Number and Playlist Index.
• Output Organized: Archive output songs by Artist, Album, Artist/Album or Album/Artist.
• After Covnerting: None, Open the output folder or Put the computer to sleep.
• Language: English, Deutsch, Español, Français, 日本語, 简体中文, Čeština, Dansk, Bahasa Indonesia, Melayu, Türkçe, Português.

Step 4 Convert Spotify Songs

Click the Convert button to start downloading Spotify songs in MP3 format.

Once the conversion is done, click the folder icon to find the converted Spotify songs.

Step 5 Play Spotify music from a USB drive on PS5 consoles and PS4 consoles

Transfer the downloaded Spotify songs to your USB drive. Make sure the USB drive is formatted with either the exFAT or FAT32 file system.

Play music from a USB drive on PS5 consoles

1. Using a computer, create a “Music” folder in the root directory of the USB drive, and then place your audio files in the "Music" folder.
2. Connect the USB drive to your PS5 console.
3. Select Music in the control center. USB Drive appears in your playlist.
4. Select USB Drive .
5. Select a file to play it.

Play music from a USB drive on PS4 consoles

1. Using a computer, create a “Music” folder in the root directory of the USB drive, and then place your audio files in the “Music” folder.
2. Connect the USB drive to your PS4 console.
3. Select Library in the content area.
4. Select USB Music Player in the content area.
5. Select the music you want to play.
   To play all of the music in the folder, highlight the folder, press the OPTIONS button, and then select Play .

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Note: The free trial version of Pazu Spotify Converter enables you to convert the first three minutes of each song. You can remove the trial limitation by purchasing the full version.

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