Spotify is a Swedish DRM-based music streaming service, it’s one awesome music service that everyone loves to have it. But unfortunately its available for only US and some European users. Here we have a little workaround by which you can enjoy the service in India too.
1. Spotify Invites :
We will make use of the US Spotify invites to get in to the system. There are many services which gives away Spotify invites for free. Here are some websites from which we can get invites.
Klout (recommended) or Coca-Cola promo page to get access code for free Spotify US account.
After clicking the Klout link, create an account in their site using your Facebook/Twitter account details.
Once you complete the registration, Klout will ask for a US zip code to offer Spotify invitation code. For US zip code, you can Google for random codes or enter “13607”, one US zip code which works well.
When you enter the zip code, you can see the unique invitation code with which you can get access to the Spotify for US users.
2. Accessing Spotify.com as US user :
Here comes the trick which hides our IP address from Spotify and helps us to register our account for free. There are lots of sites which support anonymous browsing. In our case we will use HideMyass.com . This specific site supports browsing as US and UK user.
Step 1 :
Go to that site and consider to paste http://spotify.com/invitation in hidemyass.com and it will open the Spotify.com as an US user.
Step 2:
Paste the invitation code that you got from Klout.com and press Continue.
Step 3 :
After entering the code, Spotify.com gives you access to create a new user account.
Step 4 :
Once you’re done, you can download the Spotify app for your Windows/Mac.
3. Making use of Spotify app
Open the app you are prompted with the login screen where you can enter the credentials to login to your account.
The app opens with access of thousands of albums. You can almost find any albums and in any language.
We are excited to find tons of Indian albums in almost all famous regional albums. The best part of the app is it supports Facebook connect which gives access to share playlists with your friends. This app also supports e-mail, Twitter, Facebook sharing of song.
Spotify is worth giving a try. Try it and let us know what you think. Share this trick with your friends and enjoy sharing playlists.
what do you after 20 day ‘travel time’ is over?
this aint workin no more buddy!
This is a bluff, doesn’t work 😡 i just wasted my 15 mins… :X
I live in India too and I got spotify on my computer! Go to the Google chrome store and search Hola. You’ll get an item with a symbol of fire. Add that to your google chrome. then go to spotify. com and you’ll see the little fire button just below the close button. Change your country to USA or UK. Download the app to your computer and then chose the option ‘Sign in with facebook’. That will open a new tab connecting to facebook, so change the location of that tab to USA as well! YOur spotify app in your computer will start working! You wont get it in the apstore, but you can liten to it on your computer! 😀
Thanks Natasha for your valuable tips.
Cheers Natasha
From a fellow indian 😀
You’re awesome. Thanks 😉
Hi Guys!
First off – not a tech savvy person, so I apologize if my question sounds idiotic. LOL. I am still in US so was just trying it out to see how it works.
I have downloaded Hola, but I dont see the little fire icon on my browser. I am using chrome on macbook though, so is hola only compatible with android? Will it start working when I am not in US/UK?
I have spotify app already and am logged in by facebook.
What should I do? Any help will be much appreciated. Thanks!
I can’t access yet
I have lived in UK for last 1.5 yrs. I was using Sportify there & had installed first time when in UK through my facebook login. It was a brilliant software, not just any sound track you find, also THE BEST quality. I returned to India & after 14 days it says I m not allowed to use for more than 14 days of travel? What shall I do?
Can I change this?
Could not get it to work now!!
This works perfectly fine download surf easy set your vpn as us/uk/or.Whatever you like and use Spotify as u did in UK.
You can also use Hola Unblocker to access any site that is not available for India, like Spotify, Pandora, Hulu, Netflix etc.
THANKS A TON MATE 🙂
Thanks man. It works!!!!
This only works the first time you install the app. then the next time you try logging in it wont allow you to saying there is a country mismatch of account creation and logging in.
I downloaded Spotify on my android cell phone when I was in the UK last month. It worked fine when I returned to India. Until today, when I was directed to “Sign Up” when I tried to access it. When I did sign up and tried to log in it said “You are trying to log in from a different country.”
For those who are not able to access after certain number of days just login into Spotify site using proxy and then check the location in profile. Change it to US or UK if its not!
It will start working again. You have to do this again after 14-15 days or when the error starts coming. Its not a big deal you just have to login to tell the system that you are back in US/UK region 😉
I have installed the app after jailbreak in my iPhone and I just login into site every time it shows login error and then it starts working again 🙂
Contact me on twitter for any help:
@kenil_
No proxy, tunneling or any trick will do. Spotify is too intelligent to spot non-US/UK IPs no matter what one does.
Spotify work in android phone
Its not yet working
Thanks Natasha! The Hola add-on comes out to be very handy here.