Comments on: Spotify in Ireland? Not Quite…

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:38:37 +0000

Yes I share an account with a London based friend and have no problem using spotify. It is delightful, though I think I will pay the tenner a month to ban the advertisments.

By: Derek

Derek — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 02:08:27 +0000

Conor, that’s an inspired idea. Kinda like being an Irish tax exile in reverse! Will definitely try that out.

By: Tom Sullivan

Tom Sullivan — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:39:54 +0000

According to the Spotify site, even Spotify Premium “is not available in your country yet”. Bummer.

By: Conor

Conor — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:18:40 +0000

Hello,
You can still use Spotify free in Ireland (or any other coutry probably).

Spotify allows you to travel with your free account for 2 weeks before restricting you. All you need is a friend physically in the UK to log-in once a fortnight. It instantly lets you continue listening!

Minor Snags… The account probably needs to be set up by your friend in the UK and they will need to know your username and pass to un-restrict your account every 2 weeks. Its not a problem for me as I see my mate on facebook chat all the time and tell him to do it. Its a 2 second job.

Hope this works for others!

By: Neil

Neil — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:07:48 +0000

Bad news people – I was having a great time with Spotify in Ireland by doing what Cell Man suggested until the other week I got an email from Spotify, the gist of which was:

While we are really happy that you are enthusiastically using Spotify, we are unfortunately going to have to restrict access to your free account. Spotify is currently available in six countries: Sweden, Norway,
Finland, Spain, France and the UK. We never intended to allow use of our service outside of those countries and we do not run any adverts on your account like we do in the launch countries.
For this reason we have to restrict your account, you will be able to log in to Spotify and view music and playlists but not listen to any music.

Bit of a bummer, I thought, but them’s the breaks

By: Derek

Derek — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:42:42 +0000

Some more info on this at this blog entry –

http://www.moanincronin.com/2009/06/05/spotify-in-ireland-it-works/

By: Derek

Derek — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:03:50 +0000

Cheers, Cell Man!

By: cell man

cell man — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:16:19 +0000

go to edit profile and change your country back to ireland and post code to whatever. That is working for me .

By: Marie

Marie — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:06:35 +0000

That’s a shame. got very excited when I read your previous post. I think others have managed to get around the territory thing, I must go investigate more …