December 26, 2008 by sharky
In 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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