How to listen to music in Spotify and save, if you live in Russia

Service is not officially working in Russia, but this is not a hindrance. Learn how to create an account, download the client and subscribe cheaply.

What is Spotify, and why it is popular

Spotify - one of the first streaming music service. Now his audience has more than 100 million people, and in the library of more than 30 million songs. Service is very popular and is available in many countries around the world.

What is the secret of his success? Everything is simple. Spotify client is available on virtually all devices, including game consoles, TV and stereo. And thanks to cross-platform, you can start listening to song on your computer and on the phone to continue from the same place.

In addition, it is worth he borrowed service for some time, and it will turn into a best friend, a music lover, who knows your preferences and gladly ready to give advice on what to listen to. Recommendations are working almost perfectly.

In addition, Spotify can offer quality playlists, selected by curators and artists, as well as a personalized radio.

How to register in Spotify

Unfortunately, in Russia Spotify did not appear, although it was close. To service has earned, it is necessary to use VPN-service, eg TunnelBear.

1. Turn VPN and select any country where officially there are Spotify, for example the United States.

2. Go to the official service site and click Get Spotify Free.

3. Register an account by filling out a simple form. If you have an account to Facebook - you can use it.

4. Done. Immediately begin automatic client download.

After registering VPN account can be disabled, however, a couple of weeks Spotify will begin to swear that you are abroad too long. Then turn on the VPN and log in to your account.

How to download Spotify for Android

Spotify is officially in the Russian store is not present, so you have to download apk-file. If you wish, you can find yourself a new account in another region, for example in the United States or any other country where the service is officially running. In this case, you can download the app directly from the Google Store.

How to download Spotify on iOS

With Apple a little more complicated operating system. So how to install an application from a third-party sources on iOS you can not have create a new Apple ID and download the client from the store.

What is the premium subscription

It all depends on how you listen to music. If the computer - not much point in Subscription no. Desktop version is not particularly limited, except that you can not select the highest quality sound.

But on mobile devices using the free version is not so comfortable:

• The annex has a non-intrusive advertising.
• You can not select any song from an album or playlist.
• You can only skip six songs per hour.
• You can not listen to music offline.

Restrictions are not critical, but at the same time felt some stiffness when using the service. Therefore, it is logical to still subscribe to use Spotify to complete.

For payment, you will need two PayPal-account, one in Russia, another in the same country where the registered Spotify account. Enrich the first account with a credit card and move the money to a foreign account, and from there already pay a premium subscription.

Monthly subscription in the US is $ 10, which translates into our money is about 600 rubles. Price bites: the same Apple Music It costs three times cheaper. But there are some tricks that can help you save properly.

How to save on subscription

family sUBSCRIPTION

Arrange with friends or relatives and complete a family membership for six people. For this:

1. Go to Premium Online.

2. Scroll down and select Premium for Family.

3. After pay a subscription, you will have a unique link that you can send to relatives or friends.

Important: make sure that the accounts of family members registered on the same postal address as your.

Philippine account

The cheapest subscription costs Spotify Philippine residents, however, in the music library of the country may not have all the performers.

Register an account Spotify, specifying the Philippines as a country residence. TunnelBear service for this will not work, so you have to choose any other the VPN, which provides servers in the Philippines, for example, VyprVPN.

However, the citizens of this country pretend not enough. The fact that the Philippine bank to pay a subscription will not work without the card. It will not help and the Philippine PayPal, if it has not be attached map of a regional bank.

We'll have to go a roundabout way:

1. Sign up online mol.com. In line MOL Account necessarily indicate MOL Philippines.

2. Enter a query in the search box Spotify (PH).

3. Select the desired gift card and pay it in any convenient way. But better use PayPal, because the service does not like to pay for the purchase card of Russian banks in the Philippines account.

Everything is ready, it remains to enter the code from the card into the web interface, Spotify, and enjoy music without restrictions. Do not forget to include this VPN.