Fixing Spotify Login Issues, Once And For All
December 26, 08 by sharky 33,213 viewsIn an article published 4 weeks ago, we introduced how to Join Spotify from banned locations. If you kept up with logging in to your account at least every two weeks through UK web proxies (assuming you selected UK as your country of choice), you may still have received a notice upon logging in that says, "Your current location does not match that set in your profile. You may travel with Spotify, but only for 14 days". Worse yet, if you failed to login for more than 14 days the message becomes more dire, whereby you won’t even be able to gain access to the Spotify application, due to mismatched countries in your profile and home IP address. Here’s a few tips to get Spotify back in action.
Looking for an invite to Spotify? Here’s a site that has been known to post valid Spotify invite codes:
http://lakka.se/index.php?p=spot
The Scenarios:
Login Failed
If you haven’t successfully logged in to Spotify for more than 14 days, it’s likely that you’ve received the "Login Failed" message, accompanied with "Your current country does not match that set in your profile". Updating your profile likely won’t do you any good, since your home IP (when running Spotify) will not match the country you selected via an overseas proxy, which you probably can’t change anyways. Not to worry, all is not lost. While the ability to login to the Spotify application is now a dead-deal (for now), you can still log into your account on the website (proxy or no proxy, it doesn’t matter). This is important because it’s very likely that you still have unused invitations to give, even if you yourself can’t login to the program. Thus, you can then invite yourself. However, don’t use the same gmail account as set up with the original account. A good idea is to create another gmail account (or just use an alternative address) and create & send an invite to yourself.
Again, you’ll need to use an overseas web proxy to sign up, as explained in the first article. There’s not much point in listing all of available web proxies here, since they tend to get banned. A Google-search for "proxy.uk" may set you on the right path, and Russian/Polish proxies also work well. Here’s just a few UK ones you can try, though:
Additionally, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to uninstall Spotify from your PC before signing up for that second account.
Now that you’ve successfully signed up for that second account, re-install Spotify and login. You’ll still need to take care of that pesky "14-day travel" message:
Spotify 14-Day Travel
If you recently received the message, "…you may travel with Spotify, but for only 14 days", it means that Spotify has recognized that your home IP address is not the same as set in your profile. Assuming we’re sticking with the ‘UK motif’, one solution would be to use a UK VPN provider. While not a free alternative, you won’t be getting any more of those 14-day messages, either.
A more affordable solution (folks, we’re talking free) is to use a SOCKS proxy. Since (for now) you’re still able to login to the Spotify application, you can change the connection settings and set it up to run through a free SOCKS proxy.
SOCKS Proxy List — Over at www.samair.ru/proxy/socks.htm, you’ll find (mostly) working SOCKS 4 & 5 proxies, as arranged by country. UK proxies can be found on pages 17 and 18. Next to each proxy, you’ll notice "server support: 4" - which means SOCKS 4. This is important to take into consideration, since you’ll need to select either SOCKS 4 or SOCKS 5 in Spotify.
To do this, launch Spotify and select EDIT > Preferences… from the main menu. Under the Proxy section, select either Socks4 or Socks5 from the dropdown list. Enter in a "Host" and a "Port" number from a country you selected in your profile (when signing up), but leave the ‘username and password’ fields blank.
Next, scroll all the way to the bottom of that Spotify settings page, and click Apply. Now, exit and restart Spotify.
Not all of the proxies from Samair will work, so if you develop an error message when logging in, try a different one. There’s a vast array of non-UK proxies to choose from, as well. If you constantly run into login problems, it could be a firewall issue, or antispyware software that’s blocking the connection.
HTTP Proxies — There’s even the option to use Samair’s HTTP proxies in Spotify (such as this UK one - 212.241.180.239:81).
If you run into repeated problems, try to reinstall (update) Spotify with the latest version:
- http://www.spotify.com/en/download/windows/
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01 • Richa Says: 26.12.08 at 10:29 pm
To be honest, spotify isn’t worth its trouble.
If you’re reading articles on this site, you’re better off downloading from BT, or else using last.fm or songbird to stream/download the songs you want to listen to.
02 • bogusforumname Says: 27.12.08 at 12:27 am
I have to completely disagree with RICHA. I enjoy Spotify alot and was unaware of its existance before Sharky’s posting. I am in the USA and I use a free VPN based in the UK. I only need to log into the VPN for a minute, then open up Spotify and the “you have 14 days” msg goes away. While spotify is still open i disconnect from the VPN and thats it. Spotify still connects and the msg is gone. I leave my PC on most the time so unless i need to reboot i just leave Spotify open…
now of course i still download what i want from what.cd or wherever but sometimes i want to hear something right then and there… so THANK YOU Sharky for posting.
03 • Chris Hanlon Says: 27.12.08 at 3:50 am
If you have what or waffles its unneeded
04 • agrippa Says: 27.12.08 at 9:01 am
thanks for this great post!
my first account just blocked because I didn’t know how to bypass the country locator.
I’m using the https proxy now. I had to foward the port in my router and make the port an exception for windows firewall too.
All seems to work now, no warnings.
05 • davey Says: 27.12.08 at 11:21 am
here is the trick to get it working again:
once you are blocked after fourteen days, go to your account and change the country to where you actually are, even if it is banned. it should let you login but with no songs, it does for me. then go back to your account, i use a different country proxy to the uk one you use, and switch it back to the legit proxy location in the dropdown choice. spotify should work again for another 14 days!
06 • pigstyle Says: 27.12.08 at 12:58 pm
DAVEY… nice post.. i like that idea…
using the proxy to connect is sometimes slow…
the music stops.. for me.. (BUFFER?)
07 • davey Says: 27.12.08 at 3:35 pm
with my method you do not need to use a proxy in spotify, only need to double change your country every 2 weeks.
08 • HackedServer Says: 31.12.08 at 11:57 am
PIGSTYLE: Public Socks Proxies are normally slow, and often to slow to stream music. The servers you use are used by tons of other people and the bandwidth gets used up fast.
Thats why a lot of people are willing to pay for a private proxy or a VPS to set up their own, the bandwidth is always there. I have a SOCKs 5 proxy running on my VPS, 100mbit of bandwidth all for me.
If I want to listen to music now I always use SeeqPod.com
I even use the URLs seeqpod finds to download the songs, they aren’t 320kbit but they don’t count against your ratio either.
HackedServer
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010 • Cyberwire Says: 04.01.09 at 3:34 am
Even if you cant login into spotify anymore there is still a way of entering a proxy. Just disconnect from the internet and try to login. It will connect a while and then give up while showing the proxy options.
Cheers
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012 • crisneda Says: 14.01.09 at 4:35 pm
What VPN you use?
013 • pmow Says: 15.01.09 at 8:48 pm
I can’t change my account from UK to any other country…the dropdown only has the one option. Also, the proxies listed above can’t connect anymore to Spotify’s page…
014 • K7 Says: 27.01.09 at 5:45 am
Nothing from what you wrote there works now… I can’t even make a new account. When I try to access the site through proxy, it says:”The requested resource could not be loaded. libcurl returned the error: connect() timed out!”.
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016 • Sharky Says: 01.03.09 at 11:55 am
@ K7:
This is because Spotify invites are now given out over HTTPS, i.e:
https://www.spotify.com/invitation/bVmAFRKwgee7EUwH
Most free web proxies don’t support HTTPS, hence the libcurl certificate error, similar to this: Protocol https not supported or disabled in libcurl. However, if you use a true socks proxy in the actual browser (or a UK-based VPN service) you should be able to sign up.
017 • x Says: 31.03.09 at 2:35 pm
The requested resource could not be loaded. libcurl returned the error:
connect() timed out!
Any ideas?
018 • Felipe Says: 09.04.09 at 7:15 pm
it looks for proxy that it works and ready
019 • AK47 Says: 09.05.09 at 8:59 pm
Hey man, cheers for the info on how to bypass the IP while registering.
I’ve got a problem however. I tried one of those French proxy servers from the list (as I had set my account to be French) - and it doesn’t seem to work. Well, you did say some of them might not work and all I have to do is change it to a different one. But how can I change the preferences if I cannot log into the program any more??????
If you/someone could help me with that it would be great!
Cheers
AK
020 • AK47 Says: 09.05.09 at 9:04 pm
Hey, just changed my internet connection and with this one I get a full message about changing proxy settings - sorry about the previous post, it was a misunderstanding/bad coincidence thingy. cheers again
021 • Gvegastiger Says: 12.05.09 at 9:56 am
I can’t get any of those proxy’s to work. It just keeps timing out. Is there a setting I should change on my computer/router to allow it to go through maybe? I’m in the US.
022 • Vasik Says: 10.06.09 at 8:44 am
Thanks for this, works like a charm, I use HTTP proxy (had to try some of them, but works now)…
023 • thomas Says: 20.06.09 at 4:20 pm
if you signed up via invite, does your country become irrelevant? or do you still have to be in a valid country?
024 • Joost Says: 25.06.09 at 9:47 am
I’m confused! I can’t seem to find any working one! Can someone copypaste the IP and port of a working one, and tell me how to make it work? Do I open ports in my router?
025 • Lalala Says: 02.07.09 at 2:44 am
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