save playlist
In connection with the recent departure of Spotify from Russia, services for transferring playlists from Spotify have become popular on the network. For example, Yandex offers its own solution for platform users to save playlists in Yandex.Music.
You can also find many third-party services to transfer playlists from Spotify to Yandex.Music or VK Music. For example, you can use the @wholovesmusicbot Telegram bot. This is one of the easiest ways to transfer a playlist – all the steps are intuitive. Also, there is no need to log in to streaming platforms if the playlist is stored in the public domain.
However, these methods have several disadvantages. Firstly, transferring a large number of playlists is not very convenient for users – the transfer procedure is simple, but each playlist needs to be copied individually.
You cannot transfer everything at once.
Secondly, even if you transfer all the tracks from Spotify to any of the local analogues, you can see that a large number of songs are not available on the service itself or for residents of Russia.
So for now, the most up-to-date way to protect your access to your favorite songs and app is to change the region inside the Spotify app.
users from abroad
So, if a Russian user currently resides abroad but uses a Russian profile, he must change the region or else he will also lose access to updates on Spotify.
To continue listening to the news, go to the profile in the browser and go to “Account”. On the page that opens, you need to click on the “Change profile” item, and in the “Country or region” item, change the country at the bottom, then you will save all changes and continue to use the service without restrictions.
VPN users
If the user continues to live in Russia and does not want to lose new items from foreign playlists, he will have to use some life hacks.
You need to download and activate the VPN first, and then repeat the procedure for changing the region described above. You can also turn off the VPN after changing the region and use the service without any restrictions.
The only inconvenience is that this procedure has to be repeated every 14 days as Spotify can reset profile region settings. It is recommended to use a paid VPN with the ability to manually select a fake network. That is, if the user connects to the Netherlands, it is also recommended to repeat the region change from the Dutch IP address after two weeks.
In addition, if the user’s subscription is ending, he will have to use the help of acquaintances in the “conditional Netherlands” when renewing – the payment card must correspond to the region set in the settings. Therefore, the selection of the region should be approached very carefully.
Free Spotify
If the user cannot pay the tariff with a foreign card, there is a life hack where you can use Spotify for free. To do this, you also need to download a VPN, connect to the Indian network and change the region to the appropriate one.
The only difference from the paid plan is the absence of the ability to download tracks on the device, high-quality sound instead of very loud and rare advertising inserts.
In general, you can choose any possible region that also has a free plan. The advantage of India in this regard, according to users, is that advertisements for this region are indeed less common than in other countries.
When using this method, you will need to repeat the process every 14 days.