ViWizard Spotify Music Converter 2.17.0 — Mac version

ViWizard 2.17.0 sticks with what many repair-café regulars need: a tool that runs on an old Intel Mac without fuss. No visual overhaul, just a solid build that keeps pulling tracks from Spotify while newer apps chase Apple Silicon.

Turns Spotify tracks into MP3 or FLAC on your Mac

It turns Spotify songs and playlists into plain audio files you can keep. Think MP3, FLAC, WAV, or a few others, saved straight to your Mac.

Offline Spotify files for dusty iPods and car stereos

Anyone who wants their Spotify library on an old iPod, a car stereo, or a backup drive. Also handy for DJs and sample-library builders who need offline files.

Runs on Intel Macs back to OS X 10.10

Yes. It needs OS X 10.10 or later on an Intel machine. That covers a lot of Macs still kicking around in sheds and workshops.

What do you get out the other end?

No desktop app needed—it pulls from Spotify's web player

Does it pull tracks from my desktop Spotify app? No. It uses Spotify’s web player built right in, so you don’t need the Spotify desktop client installed at all. That also means less CPU churn on older machines.

Will I need to log in again every time? Most users stay signed in across sessions. If Spotify pushes a major web-player change, you might get a one-off re-login prompt, but that’s rare.

Is it really just drag and drop? Pretty much. You paste a Spotify link or drag a playlist into the window, pick your output format, and click convert. The batch queue handles the rest while you get on with something else.

Can it split a long DJ mix into separate tracks? Not automatically. The converter grabs what Spotify serves. If the source is one long file, that’s what you get. For proper track splitting, you’d need an audio editor afterwards.

Streams and encodes in near real-time on older Macs

On an Intel Mac—say a 2015 MacBook Air or a well-loved iMac from 2013—version 2.17.0 stays light. Conversion speed depends on your internet connection more than your processor. The app streams each track and encodes it in near real-time, so a three-minute song takes roughly three minutes to save.

Memory use sits low. With a queue of forty tracks running, the Activity Monitor hovers around 300 MB of RAM. That leaves room for a browser and a few other tools without the machine grinding to a crawl.

Stability holds up. Crashes are uncommon on OS X 10.10 through to Monterey, provided you’ve got a steady Wi-Fi signal. If Spotify’s web player hiccups mid-conversion, the app usually pauses that track and picks up the next one rather than falling over.

One quirk worth knowing: if you’re converting a playlist with a hundred tracks, the web player sometimes takes a few seconds to load the full list. Let it settle before you drag it in, or you might only grab the first fifty songs.

Burns themed playlists to CD for a hospital radio ward

Leah runs a pre-recorded show for a hospital radio station. Every week she pulls together a themed playlist—old soul, folk covers, local bands—and burns it to CD for the ward trolley. She used to prop her phone against the mixer and record the headphone out, which worked but sounded thin and took a full evening.

Now she opens ViWizard on a dusty 2014 Mac mini, pastes in the Spotify playlist, and sets the output to WAV at 44.1 kHz. While the converter churns through sixteen tracks, she labels cases and sorts cables. By the time her tea’s gone cold, the files are ready. She drops them into an audio editor, tops and tails the silence, and burns a CD. No real-time recording, no level-checking anxiety. The whole thing runs in the background of a Tuesday morning.

For Leah, the format choice matters. WAV gives her uncompressed audio that the hospital’s ancient CD player handles without skipping. And because the metadata stays intact, she can later pull the same files into iTunes and still see artist and album names.

Batch conversion with artist and album folders. Metadata stays intact, and you can tweak the bitrate, sample rate, and channels before you hit go.

• OS X 10.10 or later
• Intel 64-bit Mac