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Lately I was trying to install the spotify Client on a Win7 machine. Although setting up the firewall correctly, I couldn’t tunnel spotify through the firewall. Turning the firewall of, solved the problem but left me without a firewall.
I have locked the system with strict rules in the advanced settings of the native windows firewall. Normally that works quite well, you can add rules for incoming and outgoing connections under System –> Firewall –> Advanced.

Finding out the folder for the Spotify client is also easy ($user\AppData\Roaming\Spotify) but adding the different executables to the firewall rules doens’t help. In the forums guides change between “open all the ports” and “turn off your Firewall”. Well …

The solution

What helped was to install the Windows Firewall Control. Its a freeware tool that lets you configure the internal windows firewall. After you did the changes you can uninstall the programm again.

1. Download and install the firewall control
2. Start the firewall control
3. Start Spotify
4. Go to “connections log” (bottom-left) of the firewall control

5. Click refresh (right) and look for all the spotify apps that have been blocked.

6. And now the fun part: A left click lets you unblock them.
7. Restart Spotify to see if it worked.