Allow Access to Spotify

This article shows you how to allow the Spotify application on Windows and the Spotify web player to connect to the internet through a Smoothwall Filter and Firewall.

The Spotify domain is part of the Streaming Media category. However, you need to create a separate custom category containing just Spotify URLs for it to work. As well as allowing a port on your firewall.

UPDATE: We now have a Spotify category in the Multimedia category - you can use that instead of creating your own.

Procedure

1. Create a new category, see our help topic, Creating custom categories:
   • Manage categories:
     • Name: "Spotify"
     • Domain/URL Filtering:
       • spotify.com
       • spotify.edgekey.net
       • spotifycdn.com
2. Create a web filter policy for that category with these settings, see our help topic, Creating web filter policies:
   • Who: "Everyone, or the relevant user or groups to apply this policy to."
   • What: "Spotify"
   • Where: "Everywhere, or the relevant location to apply this policy to."
   • When: "Always, or the relevant time slot to apply this policy to."
   • Action: "Allow"
3. Make sure this policy is above any Streaming Media block policy that you might have in your Web Filter Policy table, see our help topic, Managing web filter policies.
4. Create a Firewall rule to allow Spotify to connect over TCP port 4070, see our help topic, Adding new Smoothwall Firewall rules:
   • Name: "Spotify"
   • Source IP Addresses: "Any, or as required"
   • Inbound Interfaces: "Any, or as required"
   • Destination IP Addresses: "Any, or as required"
   • Outbound Interfaces: "Any, or as required"
   • Services: "Spotify"
     • If this doesn't appear in the list, click Create and use these settings: 
       • Name: "Spotify"
       • Protocol: "TCP"
       • Port: "4070"
   • Groups: "Any, or as required"
   • Action: "Accept"
   • Log: Yes