Hide/Change Cover Photos Button

[atakanserin]

Hello,

I really enjoy listening to songs when I am working at the office. Usually Spotify is open at one of my screens. However sometimes some cover photos of songs/artists/albums can be a bit on the NSFW side. So it would be great either:
- Make a button for users to hide photos of songs/albums/artists.
or
- A bit more techy: Train an NSFW machine learning image model, that labels all your photos NSFW or SFW. Make a button for turning on the "Work mode". When user turns on this mode no NSFW photos should be visible.
or
- Possibly both.

Best regards,

Atakan Serin

[Glassoma]

Yo,

Not a prude, and don't mind NSFW lyrical content due to headphones, but every time I open up Spotify recently I have a reccomended album of The Blackhole Speakeasy that is tiptoeing the line of what is acceptable at work as far as visuals go.  Not that I mind personally about seeing this lady's assets, but the HR manager who sits close by as well as the rest of my crew in the legal department may get a bit antsy.  

[daphoto]

Spotify has an option to change the artwork size.  If you mouse over the artwork you'll see to a small button with two arrows (pictured below).  Click it and it will shrink to fit next to the song information.  Hope this helps!

[daveversion2000]

Changing the artwork size is an excellent start HOWEVER, I would still like the option to mark certain covers as ones to hide.  I listen to Spotify on my Roku at home and it shows up quite large and clear and I don't want my kids to see some of the covers out there (I'm thinkin' like Die Form-->ExHuman).

All you would have to do is mark an album as "hide" and then when I am logged into my account, then whenever that cover would come up anywhere in Spotify, instead of showing the actual cover, it could just show, say, the spotify logo.

ALSO, as comouno points out, this would hold true in the "Discover" page, as well.  Spotify seems to really like recommending Alien Vampires, Kookie Kutter, and other albums with objectional artwork which makes looking at the "Discover" page pretty risky for work.

[benemorylarson]

I definitely agree. I love that there's a feed of new music, but it would be nice to be able to cull the NSFW images as well as albums I just don't want to listen to...

[zGuilder]

I love seeing the artwork of album covers but have noticed there have been more than a few NSFW ones that have shown up on my screen.  While I could care less when I'm at home, many others and myself use Spotify at work and having the radio on where the cover is very large on the screen can cause some innappropriate things come up that others can see. Can you possibly include an option in the preferences where we can toggle the artwork that comes up? 

[Marco]

A similar idea has already been suggested here:
http://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-Ideas/Hide-NSFW-Album-Art-Option/idi-p/131110

Add your kudos there please! 😉

[comouno]

I love the discover feature.  Recently an album with nudity in the cover came up which I find innapropiate.  There is no way to change the size and worst, there is no way to "unsuggest" or hide suggestion.  If the Discover tab is clicked it will be seen.  Spotify should be able to have a filter for adult content in their album for users to simply check off.  Content providers should be responsible for notifying when album covers have content not appropiate for all audiences and those results will be filtered for the users.  Maybe the album has great music and I still want to listen to it but not look at the album cover.  Suggest the album to me, but give me an option to filter out covers with adult content.

[JoeSwan]

If you are using the web-version of Spotify in Chrome (play.spotify.com), I found a work-around:

1. Get the "AdBlock" Extension for Chrome.
   
2. Click on the AdBlock icon (right or left click) and click the "Options" menu in the drop down (stop sign icon with hand ). 
3. Click the Customize tab
4. Copy&paste the following into your filter list:
   d3rt1990lpmkn.cloudfront.net/
o.scdn.co/*
profile-images.scdn.co/*
5. You can "Manually" add a line or paste it into "Block an ad by its URL."
   ("d3rt1990lpmkn" seems to be the sub-domain where all the image covers are pulled from).

You could also just put *.scdn.co/* once, putting a wildcard where the subdomains "o" and "profile-images" are, but those might block image elements on the Spotify app that you want.. Haven't tested that yet...

[Fred]

Update: This idea has been submitted again here

This idea has been submitted more than 2 years ago but unfortunately hasn't gained enough kudos during that time (10 kudos/year). In order to keep an overview of the active ideas in this forum, this idea will be closed for now. Note that this does not mean the idea has been declined by Spotify.

Please feel free to re-post this idea if you still feel you want this implemented. With a little change in presentation, maybe this time it will gain the necessary support from the community.

[adrianphonic]

I'd like to request the option to turn off explicit album artwork, OR the option to turn off ALL album artwork.

Unwanted explicit artwork shows up when browsing Spotify.

For example, when I make a radio station based on a clean song, the artwork may be explicit/racy/offensive for a random new song that I have no control of. In addition, suggestions of other popular songs appear in the edges of the interface that I have no control over.

Thanks very much as this would provide a cleaner environment for the majority youth that is using Spotify.