How to Customise Spotify with Spicetify Themes for Free

Spotify is the world’s leading audio streaming service, with a family of 570 million music enthusiasts across the globe. Spotify is such a place where you can get on-demand access to over 100 million songs, 5 million podcasts, and even audiobooks. Look, it’s not just a number; Spotify has revolutionized the overall music listening experience. 

It is agreed that Spotify has become dominant for its quality music streaming service. But somewhere, they lack default theme optimization. I mean, Spotify’s default theme has some limitations, like everything in a shade of black leading to a visual snooze fest, limited customization, and so on. But guess what? Spotify Windows App has the accessibility to customize its default. So, let’s understand everything.

Understanding the concept of custom themes

Customization is always a chance to enter into new experience domains beyond typical default developments. Like here with the Spotify Windows App, numerous people struggle with that limited functional Spotify default theme. But everyone wants such vibrant colors and takes a unique stand between huge Spotify fame. To fulfill such needs, we are starting this guide with the below-mentioned prerequisites.

• Spotify Windows app (desktop version).
• Spicetify app (free and open-source).
• A web browser for downloading themes is optional.

Note: Since customizing the default Spotify theme is an act of overriding the experience, there is no official way to customize such themes. In this context, we found that either through the Spicetify app or downloading themes, you can customize your boring Spotify experience. Here we explain both ways to get better transparency.

Getting Started with Spicetify

Spicetify is a makeover artist for Spotify that lets you apply custom themes, adjust colors and fonts, and inject extensions. Spicetify is a broad marketplace for custom themes for Spotify customization. But as a precautionary thing, you should note that it is not officially affiliated with Spotify. It works by injecting custom CSS code into the Spotify app to change its appearance. So, if you are okay with this app, go through the stages below.

Download and install Spicetify.

1. In your browser, visit the official Spicetify website.
2. Click the “Download” button to grab the latest version of the app.
3. Following this, you will be prompted to use its in-built installer.
4. Next, run the downloaded installer and follow the on-screen instructions.
5. That’s it; your Spacetify app is now ready to launch.

Launch Spicetify and connect to Spotify.

1. Open the Spicetify app recently installed.
2. Then look for the Spotify icon and initiate the process to connect it with Spicetify.
3. Afterward, allow Spacetify to access your Spotify data.
4. So, you will receive an authorization code from Spotify.
5. Now enter that code into the Spicetify app.
6. Lastly, confirm the connection, and you are done.

Browsing and applying themes

1. In the Spicetify app, head to the “Themes” section.
2. Then browse through a varied selection of themes created by other users.
3. Now filter themes by color, style, features, etc. (if needed).
4. Do preview themes before applying them.
5. Click on Apply and restart the Spotify Windows App.
6. Voila! You got the custom theme for your Spotify Windows App.

Direct download from the Web

Instead of going through the entire Spicetify app experience, if you want it as a second option, you can apply this method. Here what you need to do is find your relevant custom theme file and end with the file. Spicetify. I understand some of you struggle with finding a relevant theme for your Spotify experience. For such users’ reference, here are instructions along with specific theme websites where you can directly download and apply such themes.

Note: Ensure to connect your Spotify account with Spicetify and must have Spicetify Window accessible through its app or in any other way.

1. Visit this Spicetify custom theme website.
2. Then download your preferred theme from it.
3. Now open Spicetify and drop the downloaded theme file into the Spicetify window.
4. Following this, it will automatically apply that theme to your Spotify App.
5. That’s it you are done.

Customizing Spicetify In-built themes

Spicetify has a varied collection of themes, fonts, and numerous customization options. As of now, we have discussed the procedure to apply or customize your usual Spotify experience. But somewhere if you want to tweak with the pre-set themes in Spicetify you have numerous options.

All you need to do is pick out the theme that you want to tweak and look for different element customizations like Background images, Button Styles, header/footer, etc. Choose customization as per your preference and save it.

Final Thoughts 

To sum up, custom themes with Spotify, especially through Spicetify, bring a personalized touch to your music streaming. Tailoring the visual aspect enhances your Spotify experience, making it uniquely yours. The power to shape your Spotify experience is at your fingertips – seize it and make your music-listening moments truly your own. Take a moment to explore Spicetify and infuse Spotify with your style. Your music, your way – start personalizing now!

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