topic Re: Spotify vs VPN in Desktop (Linux)

Spotify vs VPN

benjanyan — Tue, 14 Mar 2017 19:28:18 GMT

Hi,

On my Fedora 25 machine, Spotify has suddenly stopped working over one of my VPNs (NL based). I get "No internet connection detected... (error code:4)".

If I reconnect to another UK based VPN, it works fine. If I connect to the same NL VPN on my Android phone, Spotify works on there.

Obviously, everything else on the Fedora machine works okay over this VPN.

Is it some kind of region blocking on the desktop client? What does the desktop client actually connect to (i.e. a URL I can check)?

Re: Spotify vs VPN

Maxim — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 08:35:39 GMT

Hey @benjanyan,

Unfortunately Spotify officially doesn't support the use of Spotify with VPNs so I don't think that's something I'll be able to help you out with.

Thanks.

Re: Spotify vs VPN

benjanyan — Sun, 02 Apr 2017 07:45:19 GMT

This turned out to be DNS configuration so mostly my fault.

I had two DNS servers configured and the additional one wasn't reachable anymore. This mainly just slowed DNS resolution down for everything else on my machine but for some reason, prevented Spotify connecting completely.

Cheers.

Re: Spotify vs VPN

anonymousUser1 — Thu, 05 Dec 2019 15:02:50 GMT

You can also try to flushing your DNS. This just worked for me.

Linux:

sudo systemd-resolved --flush-caches && sudo systemctl restart systemd-resolved.service

macOS:

sudo dscacheutil -flushcache && sudo killall -HUP mDNSRespondering

Re: Spotify vs VPN

silvermik3 — Sat, 28 Nov 2020 12:44:12 GMT

For reference to people getting here from searches... in my case, connectivity issues within the Spotify app using a VPN were solved by connecting to a server with a different protocol, e.g. IKE or SSL server protocol instead of OpenVPN or Nordlynx