Spotify has stopped working in Russia. What will happen to subscriptions and how to transfer your music

On Monday, April 11, Spotify officially stopped his work in Russia, despite the many years of travel that he went through to get here. The leadership of the Swedish service warned about the termination of work on the Russian market last month, but then no details other than the date were given. Therefore, users had many questions about how exactly the service would be closed, what restrictions it would entail, and whether money for paid subscriptions would be returned. We’ll talk about everything in this article.

ПОДПИШИСЬ НА НАШ КАНАЛ В ЯНДЕКС.ДЗЕН, ЧТОБЫ ЧИТАТЬ ЭКСКЛЮЗИВНЫЕ СТАТЬИ, КОТОРЫХ НЕТ НА САЙТЕ

Stop Spotify work in Russia, as expected, was not limited to disabling the ability to issue premium subscriptions. The Swedish streaming service burned probably every bridge that could be burned. However, first things first. For your convenience, I propose to divide this article into three parts. In the first we will analyze what restrictions imposed Spotify for Russian usersin the second we will try to understand whether it is possible to bypass the established restrictions, and in the third – how to finally take all your music and dump it on another site.

Is Spotify blocked in Russia?

Give people back their subscription money, scammers

• Spotify disappeared from the App Store. It really is. New users will no longer be able to download it from the Russian segment of the App Store.
• Can’t sign in to Spotify. Due to the limitation of the service, now the application will not let you past the authorization window – even with a VPN, even without it.
• Subscribing to Spotify. The Swedish service has disabled paid subscriptions of Russian users, regardless of how they paid for them.
• Will the subscriptions be refunded?? Spotify hasn’t said anything about this, so it’s likely that subscriptions won’t be refunded. Moreover, many issued them by activating gift cards purchased from Russian retailers.

ПОДПИШИСЬ НА НАШ НОВОСТНОЙ КАНАЛ В ТЕЛЕГРАМЕ, ЧТОБЫ НЕ ПРОПУСТИТЬ НИЧЕГО ВАЖНОГО

• Is it possible transfer music from spotify? Officially, no. But there is a way to do it through a service Soundiiz. It’s still available, but it’s hard to say how long it will last.
• Will Spotify work in Russia again? There is no official information on this. But the service management promises to report when the situation changes.
• Is it possible delete Spotify account? Can. The service left this opportunity to users from Russia and even offered special instruction.
• How to get your personal data from Spotify? This possibility is also provided. To request your details, follow this link and follow the instructions.

What will happen to Spotify in Russia

I never managed to get past this screen. Not with VPN, not after changing region in account settings

Apparently continue use Spotify in Russia and then it will be quite problematic, if not impossible. I do not rule out that soon a way to bypass the restrictions will be found, but for now I can say that I have not been able to make the service believe that I am in another country, even connecting to the VPN and changing region in Spotify web settings.

ПОДПИШИСЬ НА ТЕЛЕГРАМ-КАНАЛ СУНДУК АЛИБАБЫ. ТУТ ТОЛЬКО ЛУЧШИЕ ТОВАРЫ С АЛИЭКСПРЕСС

It is highly likely that the service traces the origin of the application that is used on a particular device. In my case, it was downloaded from the Russian segment of the App Store. Therefore, when changing the region, a conflict occurs. However, Spotify does not warn about anything like this, specifying, however, that you can change the country only if you are physically present on its territory.

How to Change Region in Spotify

Spotify allows you to reactivate your account if you are physically located outside of Russia. VPN for some reason fails to deceive the service, but know that in general – when crossing the Russian border – the opportunity to regain access to Spotify there is also. Here’s how to do it:

• Go to the web version of Spotify from this link;
• Log in to your Spofity account;

Turkish VPN allowed me to change the region. But he didn’t let me listen to music in Spotify

• Open the edit section of your profile;
• Select your current country of residence and click Save.

I have at the moment Change region in Spotify the VPN was enabled and the connection was established with the Turkish servers. Spotify identified this and allowed me to change the region to Turkey. Despite this, I was not able to log into my account in the application. The service invariably repeated that I should change the region without reacting to the changes being made.

How to transfer music from Spotify

So probably the only way out is to try transfer all your tracks from Spotify to another service, while such an opportunity is still there. I prefer to do it with the platform Soundiiz. I like it for its versatility, because it supports several popular music services in Russia at once, and for free at the initial stage.

I will show how to transfer music from Spotify to Yandex.Music:

First you need to bind your services to soundiiz

• In the console on the left, find the icon of your service, click on it and link your account;
• Repeat this manipulation for the second service where you will transfer your tracks;

Select playlists and individual tracks if needed

• Then click on the “Transfer” – “Playlists” button and select the source platform from which the transfer will be made;
• Select the playlists you want to transfer (after linking the account, the service will recognize them automatically);

Select the target service and wait for the transfer to complete

• After that, select the target platform where the tracks are transferred to and confirm the transfer.

У НАС ЕСТЬ ОЧЕНЬ УЮТНЫЙ ЧАТИК В ТЕЛЕГРАМЕ, ГДЕ МЫ ОТВЕЧАЕМ НА ВОПРОСЫ ЧИТАТЕЛЕЙ

Soundiiz supports different music platforms and allows you to freely transfer playlists between them. Here you will find Spotify, Apple Music, VK Music, YouTube Music, Deezer, TIDAL and even SoundCloud. Therefore, you can follow the instructions above in full, with the exception of the stage when you need to select the target service for transfer. Just replace Yandex.Music with the platform you use, and everything will go smoothly, without a hitch.