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How to Add Spotify Music to GarageBand for Creating Project ?

author By Harper North
Updated on: July 22, 2025
Category: Spotify Music Tips

Want to use your favorite songs on Spotify to add inspiration to your GarageBand project? Although GarageBand is an ideal platform for making music, it does not support adding music directly from Spotify. However, with some simple methods, you can still convert Spotify songs to a common format and successfully import them into GarageBand for creation. This article will teach you how to easily add Spotify Music to GarageBand for Creating Project, allowing you to give full play to your musical creativity in GarageBand.

Add Spotify music to GarageBand

Part 1: Can You Add Spotify Music to GarageBand?

GarageBand Input Audio Format: MP3, AAC (except protected AAC files), Apple Lossless, M4R, WAV, CAF, AIFF.

GarageBand accepts various unprotected audio files input including iTunes music. So "if I am a Spotify music lover who has large library of Spotify tracks and playlists, is there a way to use these Spotify playlists on GarageBand?"

GarageBand does not work for the streaming music from Spotify, so before start, you need to download your Spotify music as unprotected audio files with the help of a professional third party program. Fortunately, Sidify Music Converter is that one worth trying, with which you can download Spotify tracks or playlists to plain audio file formats including MP3, AAC, FLAC, WAV, ALAC or AIFF with simple clicks. After conversion, you will get almost all metadata and ID3 tags including title, artwork, artist, album, genre for organizing your music library.

Key Features of Sidify Music Converter

Sidify Music Converter

Sidify Music Converter


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If you are looking for a tool to convert any streaming music (including Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Tidal, Deezer, YouTube, YouTube Music, SoundCloud, DailyMotion …) to MP3, Sidify All-In-One is the go-to choice.

Part 2: How to Add Spotify Music to GarageBand for Creating Project?

In the following part, we will show you the detailed steps on how to add Spotify music to GarageBand on Mac for creating music or video project, or on your iPhone for creating your favorite ringtone without needing iTunes.

Step 1Launch Sidify Music Converter

Run Sidify Music Converter, you will access the modern interface of the program.

Run Sidify Music Converter

Step 2Add Spotify Tracks/Playlists

Drag and drop a song or a playlist from Spotify to Sidify. Sidify would recognize the Spotify music automatically.

Add Spotify music

Step 3Customize the Output Parameters

Click on Setting button button on the left panel of interface, then a dialogue will be shown to indicate you choosing the output format (here you can choose MP3, AAC, WAV, FLAC, ALAC, AIFF as the output format), conversion mode, output quality (128kbps, 192kbps, 256kbps, 320kbps), and output folder.

Tips: Sidify Music Converter supports saving the output audio into Artist, Album, Artist/Album or Album/Artist folder. Otherwise, the converted audios will be saved into one folder automatically.
Set MP3 as output format

Step 4Start Converting Spotify Music

After finishing setting the output parameters, you can click "Convert" button to start converting Spotify music. After the conversion is completed, you can click the "History" tab to check the converted Spotify music files.

Start converting

Add the Converted Spotify Music to GarageBand on Mac

Launch GarageBand on Mac, then click Add media icon icon at the top-right corner and all audio files on your Mac will be shown on the right panel, you can choose the converted Spotify music from this section and start your project.

Add music to GarageBand on Mac

Note: The trial version of Sidify Music Converter enables us to convert the first minute from Spotify for sample testing, you can purchase the full version to unlock the time limitation.

Conclusion

Now that you have mastered how to add Spotify music to GarageBand, you can get more inspiration from it, whether you are editing a soundtrack or composing music. Choose the right tools to quickly convert and import audio tracks to make your GarageBand project richer and more expressive.

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Harper North | Staff Writer

Harper is a content writer with a profound understanding of the streaming music landscape and a specialization in music converters. She creates informative content on tools, techniques, and trends in music conversion, providing expert advice, detailed reviews, and guides.
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