Disable Explicit Songs?

[Jts]

Is it possible to tell spotify not to play any songs with explicit lyrics?  I like to play random playlists or spotify's top lists sometimes but don't like songs with explicit lyrics. 

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Jonathan

[toddb_1]

I cancelled my premium subscription last week just because of this. My kids are now enjoying Apple Music and I'm content knowing they can't listen to things I don't think they should be listening to.

[Jgieschen]

I am on the bubble. I liked Apple Music and I use a mac at home so it was great. But I have an Android phone and Spotify has nice features. 

But it is almost on priciple I might cancel spotify. It is enraging that they can do this simple thing.

[sftexas]

I let my subscription lapse because of no "explicit lyrics" filter. Pandora
isn't that great, but I'm happy to give Apple Music and Google's offering a
try at this point.

[FCGreg]

FYI in case you don't know:

Apple Music works on Android as well. The official app is in the GooglePlay store.

[toddb_1]

@Jgieschen As @FCGreg mentioned there is actually an Android version of Apple Music. I was pretty surprised but it makes sense. My daughter has it on her Android phone and it seems to work pretty well.

[Jgieschen]

True but my experience was it that it was a bit slow and laggy and required
a lot of clicking arond

[Lingramizgram]

I teach under 7s dance.. And sometimes I'll put together a playlist on my android and it doesn't show what songs are explicit so it doesn't even show on that app so I'm there completely worried when I'm teaching a class if I can play my playlists from my phone because it doesn't say if its explicit or even block it 

[aporcano]

Add me to the list of people who will be cancelling subscriptions because of this. I have been in spotify's offices for meetups, have friends that work there, and have respect for their tech stack, but I won't use their service anymore. 

I was a previous Pandora subscriber, but never loved their service. Spotify was much better and I was getting much more use out of it. But when playing the top 50 lists in the car with the kids there were some very awkward moments. I could almost live with that by not listening to the top 50 with them in the car. 

However, listening at my desk today the song 'Broccoli' came on. I fully support the ability for artists to create this type of content, but it is extremely (and I mean really extremely) vulgar in describing how the arist is going to stick his **** in a girl's ******. That's quite frankly pornographic content and I want no part of it. 

Spotify, if you're going to offer a "family" plan you might want to think about giving families some ability to weed out this kind of highly inappropiate content. In the meantime I will be switching to Apple music. So long and thanks for all the expletives. 

[BritishBeef]

Oh wow!

Been a Premium account holder for a while and just signed up to Family. Can't believe you can't block explicit tracks STILL. There are more than ever now and I whilst I don't want my children listening to it, I also am not keen on the explicit versions. Guess I'll try the free Apple trial then as Spotify won't listen.......

[bltmark]

I have cancelled my subscription and moved to Google Play Music where they have a filter, I don't understand how Spotify can provide a FAMILY service but allow CHILDREN to easily access and listen to some quite frankly disgusting lyrics that are in some songs, Shame on you Spotify it is blatantly clear you don't care whatsoever and are just interested in the money, hopefully enough people will cancel the service and you will take notice.

[Tomjoy14]

I'm the same. Kids can't be and shouldn't be exposed to bad language too early and whilst we love spotify (frozen cars and all Disney playlists are rife in our kitchen) we can't expose them to this so we'll be moving to another month. Recommendations welcome?

[RaviChandra]

I play music in my office space but cannot risk the explicit songs, as I work in an area that educates, protects and defends vulnerable populations. Most of these songs encourage abuse and hatred! Spotify allow us to filter them! Alternativley, we will filter your service!

[WeirdMunky]

Regarding your censorship statement below, do you offer clean versions of your radio stations as well?
Thanks
https://support.spotify.com/is/using_spotify/search_play/content-censor/

[elijahclapp]

Pandora has had this for a long, long time, so it is definitely possible. Time to play catch up Spotify!

[sftexas]

They don't even have to play catchup - a user wrote it for them, but they
rejected it. So it seems they're actively against the idea.
http://jacobsingh.name/content/spotify-rejects-my-app-millions-toddlers-get-their-mouths-washed-out-...

[drhitchcock1412]

All who have posted here: given the epic length (duration, # of posts) of this thread, it seems likely that Spotify does not monitor this forum, and/or finds it easy to ignore.

You can send a mail directly to their support team by doing the following:

1. Go to https://support.spotify.com/us/contact-spotify-support/

2. Select "Account"

3. Select "Other"

4. Select "I still need help"

5. Type in a message, e.g., innocently asking how to filter explicit content ("I know how to do this on Pandora and Apple Music, but I can't seem to find the setting in Spotify" ...)

I'm only hanging on to Spotify because I discovered this woeful deficiency after I'd already set up my wife, mother-in-law, and son on it, so I'm holding on to a glimmer of hope that Spotify might in some way care about their customers, and at least provide a useful response of some kind regarding this, one of the top 3 requested features for the entire app: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/idb-p/ideas_live/tab/most-kudoed. Maybe Spotify no longer employs any software developers? 

[user-removed]

Agree that we need this option. Not asking Spotify to edit the music, simply to label it for those who prefer not to hear explicit content or broadcast it in a public setting/family gathering/car etc. This is the sole reason I won't subscribe to Spotify and instead subscribe to Pandora since they have a setting to block explicit content.

[user-removed]

I'ts been awhile since I posted in this thread. I'm dissapointed that Spotify has not reacted in some way. I too am a premium subscriber with my entire family set up with Spotify. I have just begun the free 90-day Apple Music trial. I will start transitioning my family members to Apple and cancel Spotify. I prefer the Spotify interface over Apple any day. I am learing my way around Apple though. Plus, I am playing Apple radio stations at work and not hearing f-bombs. My customers and co-workers appreciate it. You are blowing it Spotify.

[Jgieschen]

I cancelled last week and went back to Apple. I prefer Spotify, but can't abide the lack of filtering. too bad. 

[ybnormal99]

Its not like they need to Label the music explicit they have already, we just need a way to filter those songs out, They seem to not care about our concerns since this thread and many other web hits are about there is no filter for explicit content