How to use the services Spotify, iTunes Radio, Pandora and Beats Music in Russia
Tips Makradar / / December 19, 2019
In recent years, streaming music services overtaken by the popularity of the classic model of content purchase and began a new round of development of the digital music distribution. Traditionally, the most delicious piece of cake goes to Western users, because no Spotify, or Pandora, or Beats Music is not available in the territory of Russia and CIS countries. However, if you really want it, all these services are easy and can be listened to here. How to do it, I'll tell you.
We are faced with just two problems: the lack of client applications needed for comfortable listening on the iPhone and Mac, as well as regional restrictions on the action of certain countries. Both can be easily solved.
apps
Customers Spotify, Pandora and other services available in the Russian App Store on the grounds that the services do not work for us. So download the application you will need to make American Apple ID. This procedure is quite simple and is described in detail in this guide. You can register with both the iOS-device and the Mac.
By registering, we download the required application and go to the next step.
If you only need iTunes Radio, the more you can not read, it will work immediately as soon as you are logged into your shtatovskih Apple ID.
regional limitations
Now that we have an application, such as Spotify, we open it, try to make an account and get a warning that in our country the service is not yet available. Fortunately, this is easily remedied by using VPN. There are plenty of services and applications that are designed to ensure your anonymity on the web. However, due to the fact that they work through servers located in various countries around the world, we their help, we can "pretend" Americans and to gain access to the disabled in our country music services. For all the seeming cleverness in the VPN is no big deal. Here we have two options: use of VPN applications and manual configuration of services.
apps
All popular services have their applications for different platforms, which further simplifies the process. A lot of them, but the friendliest and most common VPN-service is Tunnel Bear, which has apps for iOS and OS X, along also flexible conditions - 500 megabytes of traffic per month, which can be increased up to two gigabytes simple tweet.
Price: Free
Load the app and follow the instructions in the start guide. There difficult to get confused, just to agree with everything and click "Next". Then click the switch, and voila - you are already on the other side of the world, anywhere in the United States.
Manual setting
Do not be put off by the word "hand" in this kind of setup is also no big deal. There are many services you can use for our needs, for example, Portaller. It is good because it works without any restrictions and is completely free. In addition, Portaller specially "sharpened" under strimingovye services with regional restrictions and passes through a VPN only their traffic without affecting the Networking For further your activity. Moreover, in addition to music Spotify, Rdio and Pandora, Portaller can also use video services Netflix and Amazon Video.
Setting Portaller zaymer a couple minutes of time, detailed instructions for all devices, including game consoles and routers, is on the site of serviceWe're with you rascmotrim setting for Mac and iPhone.
Setting Portaller on Mac
- Open the network settings.
- Choosing our network and click the Advanced Settings button.
- Switch to the DNS tab, add the following addresses: 107.170.15.247 and 77.88.8.8.
- We reconnect to our network changes to take effect.
Setting Portaller on iPhone and iPad
- Open the settings, go to the section Wi-Fi and press the button «i».
- In the DNS line erase existing address and enter a comma familiar 107.170.15.247 and 77.88.8.8.
- Reconnects to the network to apply the changes.
How to use
Continued use depends on the service you. Some of them are checked only at the country of registration, and others every time you start and play the tracks.
For example, in the case of Spotify, you need to connect via VPN only on the first run, then you can go through the usual network. Where once a month application will swear that you are "too much travel," but it is necessary to re-login enabled VPN, and everything returns to normal. In the same way behaves and Beats Music. That is, using these services you will be enough to head Tunnel Bear for free.
Other services, such as Pandora, working exclusively through the VPN, so that 500 free megabytes, which gives Tunnel Bear you just is not enough. You can do monthly tweets, add 1.5 gigabytes of traffic, but it is only in the case where the music is not included in your background for days. Otherwise it is better to set up or use paid Portaller VPN.
results
Personally, I chose a Spotify, very comfortable and perfect for my service, which is quite functional even without a subscription. As for the security of data sent through the VPN, here, I think, in this case, nothing to worry about, because we listen to music, and do not hide from the security forces. If you need a VPN for anonymity online, of course, it makes sense to take care paid solutions with support for encryption and additional protection. But that's another story.