Am a bit of a fan of spotify and am just jotting down some experiences of using it abroad. I signed up while in the UK, and was happy enough with the service (even if they kept increasing the number of adverts). It worked through the notorious Glasgow University proxy (after some tweaking) and had a large enough selection of music for me (if not my obscure-scandinavian-rock-loving brother).
When I moved to Arizona, spotify continued to work...but the adverts stopped! So I'm getting the 10 pound per month premium service for free. (Even though it doesn't seem to hard to circumvent, even from the UK) This is really strange - if I'm on holiday why not just serve me British adverts? I guess they're preparing for their US launch.
The service abroad stops working every two weeks. But you just need a friend to log in for you (or know the correct tunneling incantations) to log in via a UK ip adress (see notes on the notorious Glasgow University Proxy).
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hold on...I just heard the first advert after 4 months. Have they fixed the bug? Are they getting ready for a USA rollout?
Im at glasgow university just now. How did you get past the proxy settings on the university's computer system? Would be great to be able to use spotify while im at uni.
Cheers
short answer, proxy server:
130.209.6.40
port:
8080
So (on windows) there's an option from the log-in screen to give a proxy and a port number. From the dreaded glasgow.pac file,
return "PROXY 130.209.6.40:8080; " +
"PROXY 130.209.6.41:8080; " +
"PROXY 130.209.6.42:8080; " +
"PROXY 130.209.6.43:8080; " +
"DIRECT";
you can see the servers (130.209.6.40) etc... and that they run on 8080.
Thanks a million. Works like a charm.
Uni work just got a lot more bearable.
hey, im at southampton solent university and i cant get spotify to work, it takes ages to load and then just doesnt log on, any sort of proxy or something i could use?
cheers
I cant get it to work in the glasgow uni network. Any ideas? is it HTTPS i need to have selected? Euan x
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