ViWizard Spotify Music Converter 2.17.0 Mac

If you’ve moved past one-click rippers and want the same kind of fine-grained output control you’d expect from a CD ripper, ViWizard Spotify Music Converter is built for that. It pulls tracks through Spotify’s Web Player and writes them to local files—MP3, AAC, WAV, FLAC, M4A, or M4B—while keeping the original metadata intact.

Good for power users who want

• Full codec selection, including FLAC and M4B for audiobooks.
• Manual control over channel, bitrate, and sample rate on every conversion.
• Automatic folder sorting: output can be organized by artist or album without post-processing.
• A Mac build that still runs on Intel hardware back to OS X 10.10.

Streams through Spotify Web Player—no offline or Apple Silicon support

• Relies entirely on the Spotify Web Player for content access.
• Metadata handling is limited to what the Web Player exposes.
• Version 2.17.0 is Intel-only; no native Apple Silicon support listed.

Log into Spotify inside ViWizard and convert tracks from a single window

You open ViWizard and the Spotify Web Player loads inside its own window—no browser tabs, no extensions. Log in once with your Spotify account and the app remembers the session. A search bar at the top left works the same way the web player does: type an artist, a podcast name, or an album title and results appear in a few seconds.

Most people start by dragging a playlist onto the floating plus button. The app scans the track list and shows a popup with every song checked. You can uncheck filler tracks, skits, or anything you don’t need. The format panel sits at the bottom of that same window: pick MP3 for the car stereo, FLAC for the home library, or M4B if you’re converting a long audiobook and want chapter markers preserved. Bitrate and sample rate sliders update in real time, and the channel toggle flips between stereo and mono when you want smaller files for spoken word.

Hit convert and the app processes one track at a time, pulling audio through the web player at a steady clip. A progress bar runs per track and a batch ETA sits above it. The app throttles itself enough to keep the web player responsive—no crashes, no forced logouts. When the queue finishes, the output folder opens automatically. Tracks land inside artist and album subfolders if you’ve set that preference. A finished queue of 40 tracks takes about the length of the playlist itself to convert on a 2019 iMac, give or take.

What versions 2.16 and 2.17 changed in daily use

The jump to 2.17.0 brought one change that affects every conversion session: the metadata parser now pulls composer and year fields more reliably from Spotify’s Web Player data. Before 2.17, classical albums often landed with the performer’s name in the artist field and nothing in composer—sorting a symphonic library meant manual tag editing. With the update, a Beethoven symphony cycle converts with “Beethoven” in the composer tag and the orchestra in artist, exactly what a media server like Plex or Jellyfin expects.

Version 2.16 reworked the format preset system. The app used to reset output settings to MP3 every time you switched from a playlist to an album. Now it holds the last-used codec and bitrate across sessions, so a user who always exports FLAC never has to re-select it. The same update tightened the web player integration after Spotify adjusted its playback API, which had caused intermittent “track unavailable” errors on some high-bitrate streams. Those errors disappeared for the bulk of users after 2.16 shipped.

Dropped files land in the Music app with artwork and tags intact

Because the output is plain audio files with proper tags, ViWizard slots into an existing workflow without extra steps. Drop the converted folder into the Automatically Add to Music folder and the tracks appear in the Music app with artwork and metadata intact. They sync to an iPhone or iPad over a cable or Wi-Fi the same as any ripped CD.

Podcast listeners who want offline copies for a non-Apple player get standard MP3s that play on anything. Audiobook users who select M4B get a single file with chapter markers; drag it into the Books app on macOS and it shows up on the library shelf with cover art and a chapter menu. The format is the same one Audible uses, so any playback app that handles M4B—Bound on iOS, Voice on Android, an old iPod classic—reads the files without conversion.

The app also plays well with tagging utilities. A user who wants MusicBrainz-level metadata accuracy can run the FLACs through a tagger like Yate or Metadatics afterward, but the baseline tags ViWizard writes—title, artist, album, track number, and now composer—cover what most people need. Finder’s column view and Quick Look show the metadata instantly, and Spotlight indexes it, so searching for a song by name from the desktop brings up the converted file alongside any other audio.

On the automation side, the automatic folder sorting cuts out a repetitive step for anyone who archives large catalogs. Tell the app to sort by artist and album, and a 200-track playlist lands as a clean folder tree ready for rsync or a backup task. No renaming, no manual drag-and-drop. Users who keep a local media server like Plex pointed at a music share see new albums appear on the next library scan with cover art and track order intact.

• OS X 10.10 or later
• Intel processor