Spotify, the free legal peer-to-peer music streaming service, is one of the hottest things right now but the problem is that it is currently only available to download if you have an invite or if you pay the £9.99 monthly subscription. If you haven’t got an invite or you don’t want to subscribe then I have a work around for you.
Users in France don’t have to worry about getting an invite as the service isn’t yet limited over there, so what we need to do is sign-up and pretend we are from France. It sounds easy but obviously Spotify checks on our IP addresses so we need to do a few things to get around this.
Here are the instructions:
1. First go into www.hiload.org
2. Put https://www.spotify.com/en/get-started/ into the ‘Enter URL’ box and click ‘go’.
3. You will get a warning box, but ignore this and click “continue anyway”. You may sometimes be taken back to hiload.org but just try again.
4. Enter all your correct information but leave the country as ‘France‘ and put 69002 as your postal code (see image below).
5. Once you have registered then you can download and install the Spotify client.
6. You will then be able to log-in and set-up Spotify using your username and password.
7. All that is left is to change your country from ‘France’ back to your correct country along with the postcode. Do this by logging on to your profile and clicking on ‘edit profile’.
Spotify registration - click on the image to see full-size
3 comments
Adem says:
Dec 11, 2009
Testing comments. Spotify is brilliant btw.
hen says:
Dec 12, 2009
I’ll help you test the comments.
I just followed the instructions you gave and successfully created a spotify account. I fully expected the Internet police to come crashing through my door the second I was done. They did not.
Adem says:
Dec 13, 2009
I’m glad to hear that Hen.
I wanted a Spotify account but had no invites so was happy when I found out about this way.