[Summary]: Want to use your Spotify song as video BGM? How to put Spotify songs onto iMovie? This article will show you a full guide on how to add music from Spotify to iMovie as background music with a prefessional Spotify Music Converter.
“Recently I am making a short video, and I want to add a Spotify song to the video as BGM. Is it possible to add music from Spotify to my iMovie project? Thanks.”
In an excellent video or short film, background music plays an important role. iMoive is one of the best video editing applications that can help you easily add music to video as BGM and create wonderful movies from videos. Many people prefer to add background music when editing videos in iMovie, but most of them fail to add music from Spotify to iMovie. Why?
As a popular streaming music service, Spotify Music adds DRM protection to its songs to prevent its songs from being copied or transferred, Spotify songs can only be played in the device or tablet with Spotify Music app installed. Although Spotify Premium can download Spotify songs, they cannot play Spotify music on iMovie that is not compatible with the Spotify app.
Fortunately, with using a third-party tool to unlock DRM from Spotify and convert Spotify songs to iMovie supported audio file formats, such as MP3, WAV, M4A, AIFF, AAC, then you can still import Spotify music to iMovie for editing. The following part will show you how to use music from Spotify in iMovie.
Tool Required: Spotify Music Converter
Spotify Music Converter is an excellent DRM Removal tool and Spotify music converting tool, which can help you remove DRM from Spotify and download Spotify music for free at 5X speeed, and convert Spotify songs to DRM-free MP3, AAC, FLAC or WAV with keeping 100% original quality. In this way, you can save Spotify music on your computer forever, and add Spotify Music to iMovie.
Key Features of Spotify Music Converter:
- Remove DRM from Spotify music for using in iMovie.
- Convert Spotify music to MP3, AAC, WAV, FLAC at 5X speed.
- Remain Spotify songs metadata, original audio quality and ID3 tags.
- Put the converted Spotify songs to any video editor directly.
- Import converted Spotify songs to iMovies as BGM.
- Play Spotify music offline on any device for free.
Tutorial: How to Add Spotify Music to iMovie?
Follow the detailed tutorial to learn how to convert Spotiy songs to MP3 with using Spotify Music Converter, and then put Spotify music to iMovie. Please download Spotify app on your computer before you start.
Step 1.Launch Spotify Music Converter
Download, install and launch Spotify Music Converter on your computer, then Spotify will run automatically.
Step 2.Add Spotify Songs to Converter
Drag and drop the songs/playlists/albums/artists from Spotify to the main interface of Spotify Music Converter. Or copy and paste the song link from Spotify web player to the search box to import songs.
Finally, click “+” icon and “Add” button to finish adding songs.
Step 3.Set MP3 as Output Format for iMovie.
As iMovie supports MP3, WAV, M4A, AIFF, AAC audio format, here you can set MP3 as the output format, just click the “Options” button to change the output format. By the way, you can change the ,SampleRate, BitRate, Output Path, Output quality for your preference.
Step 4.Convert Spotify to MP3 for Using in iMovie.
When finish customization, click “Convert” button to start removing DRM from Spotify Music and converting Spotify songs to MP3 for using in iMovie as BGM. After conversion, you can find the unprotected Spotify songs by clicking “History” icon.
Step 5.Add Converted Spotify Songs to iMovie
Firstly, add the converted Spotify songs to your iTunes library. Then open iMovie on your Mac and select “Audio” above the browser. In the sidebar, select “iTunes” to load the desired converted Spotify songs and add them to iMovie. By the way, you can also edit, trim and edit background audio as needed.
