Block video cdn

[SeyoS]

Hello, 

I'm using a filtering DNS to block some domain on my child's phone.

I want to block also video on Spotify and I try to identify domain of CDN linked to video streaming.

Where can I find a list of domains used by purpose?

Like image-cdn-ak.spotifycdn.com

Thanks for your help! 

[Ximzend · Accepted solution]

Hi @SeyoS,

Thanks for posting in the Spotify Community, and welcome!

The domains of video streams that I could find are:

• video-akpcw-cdn-spotify-com.akamaized.net
• video-ak.cdn.spotify.com.splitter-eip.akadns.net
• video-fa.scdn.co

Let me know if you have any other questions, and have a good day!

[SeyoS]

Thank you very much, I'll try that! 

[SeyoS]

It worked perfectly, thanks! 

[Ximzend]

I've found another for the Canvas:

• canvaz.scdn.co

[andrewz0]

I block these

video-ak.cdn.spotify.com.splitter-eip.akadns.net
video-fa.scdn.co
video-fa.cdn.spotify.com
video-fa-b.cdn.spotify.com
video4-ak.spotify.com

Test it yourself on your phone with a variety of video content such as interviews and video podcasts.

My allowlist is 38 hostnames.

FYI for anyone doing IP-based blocking, some Spotify video services are hosted on the same IP addresses as Spotify non-video services.

[Moe859]

This workaround worked for me well. Now I realised that it is only working in one account of our family subscription. It does not work in a newer account which is also part of my Spotify Family subscription. It is NOT related to the device but to the account. I have tested it with the two accounts on the same device. Maybe Spotify uses different adresses for videos in newer accounts? 
Does anyone experience the same? Is there a solution?

Thanks!

[userguy2]

Unfortunately I also had to add the image cdn to the blocklist. This means album art gets blocked too, but only after I added this the video podcasts stopped loading.  

Here is my list. Note that the + on the first line is a wildcard, so you may need to modify this depending on which adblocking software you are using.

+.video-ak.cdn.spotify.com
eip-ntt.video-ak.cdn.spotify.com.akahost.net
image-scdn.cdn-gslb.spotify.com
video-ak.cdn.spotify.com.splitter-eip.akadns.net
video-ak-cdn-spotify-com.akamaized.net
video-akpcw.spotifycdn.com
video-akpcw.spotifycdn.com.edgesuite.net
video-akpcw-cdn-spotify-com.akamaized.net
video-fa.scdn.co

[EnzoV]

Can I ask what tool you use to block them? 

[SeyoS]

I use https://cleanbrowsing.org/ and it works pretty fine.

It's also easy to identify all domains used and the one related to Spotify.

Here are the domains I've blocked

 

[andrewz0]

EnzoV, I block domains using the DNS server AdguardHome in OpenWRT, and I use ipban (also in OpenWRT) to prevent network access to alternate DNS servers (multiple methods) because access would allow bypassing the filtering. There are other DNS servers, both local and cloud-based, such as OpenDNS. (By default OpenDNS doesn't filter much, but you can set it up by category or by hostname.)