[All Platforms] Explicit Filter

[sekuether21]

Add a button that controls whether Explicit songs are played or not.  When it is off and you're listening to an album or playlist, the explicit songs are skipped. That way you can still listen to your favorite album or playlist when more impressionable members of the family (kids / parents) are around.

[user-removed]

I just bought premium thinking this would be an obvious option. Wondering if I need to move to google?!

[1248817595]

Perhaps we should all leave at the same time. Can we create a 'Spotify didnt listen day'

[someotherguy]

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> Perhaps we should all leave at the same time. Can we create a 'Spotify didnt listen day'

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This is a wonderful idea.  Everyone who posted was getting notifications of activity on this forum.  I say we do this (I stopped listening to them since Apple Music came out.  Apple music is good enough and worth the Family plan.

Lets figure out a day in the new year to do this.

-G

[Suvashis]

OMG, when are you going to implement an explicit filter?  This is complete BS.

[tonkthetankrox]

I already canceled my account this morning. I also posted the following message to Facebook. Please feel free to do the same. Spotify, a music player app, has refused to implement parental controls. LIKE if you agree that there is a time and place when profanity is not acceptable. SHARE if you will join me in boycotting their service. COMMENT if you have an opinion as to whether or not children should be allowed to listen to every song available online. If you feel strongly about it please comment on the Spotify forum at https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Explicit-button/idi-p/3869 or on their Facebook page. They have ignored this request by users for over 3 years. Maybe they will listen if enough voices speak out against their apathy. #Spotify

[1217250674]

PLEASE make this a function. It's not hard and is quickly becoming more and more important as more artists cloak them in and otherwise. I won't use Spotify again until this is activated. 

[snbrown02]

Just joined Spotify under the 3 month premium for $0.99 offer.  I assumed a feature as basic as this would exist but now see that it does not.  I will not be using Spotify beyond the offer period.

[Andytp]

Like many others I am currently trying out the Spotify Premium on the three month offer. I already have a deezer premium account that came with my phone plan, but that expires soon and one of the things I didn't enjoy was having to pre-screen tracks and playlists before knowing when they were suitable. I was hoping that as a more mature product spotify would already include a facility to automatically skip tracks tagged as explicit.

Please note I do not want tracks to be censored, I do not support things such as the bleep app. I fully support freedom of speech and think that some of the most observant social commentaries can be found in albums that many people find totally offensive.

I also beleive in freedom of choice. Like many others there are social contexts in which I would choose to play music with explicit lyrics and social contexts when I would choose to only play music without explicit lyrics. For example, driving to work by myself in the car I would happily play Guns and Roses Appetite for Destruction through the stereo's bluetooth link, then keep listening on my headphones when Iget to the train. I want this to be tagged as one of my favourite albums. If I'm driving to my parents house with the kids in the car, I want them to appreciate the lyrical brilliance and fantastic guitar of tracks like November Rain, Sweet Child o' Mine etc, without having to explain to them why Mr Brownstone is a real Mother **bleep**er. But I'm driving, I can't DJ.

There is a very generic way for me to implement this, it is called - auto-skip explicit tracks. It simply checks if the next track in the album/radio stream/playlist/up next... Oh hell I'm a computer programmer too. lets keep it techy. Peek the next item in the queue and if it has the explicit tag set to true - take it out of the queue.

{

    If (SkipExplicit && Q.Next.Explicit) {Q.Remove(Q.Next);}

}

See that's so much easier than me having to remember for every album which tracks are fine and which Ineed to skip. This isn't a freedom of speech issue. This isn't a censorship issue. This is a road safety issue. Ok road safety is a stretch, but this is really an expression of choice issue, not a freedom of speech issue.

Socail Media has grown out of the college dominated era and become truly social. Apps that also want to be truly social like all members of society need to decide if they going to be niche, global or versitile. Most members of society choose to be versitile. That is they can opperate in a global way which is generally acceptable to the vast majority or they can behave in way which is niche and only appropriate for a specific social context. Ithink that we are still several years from apps being able to truly recognise social context (thay can do locational, but as in the example above, they can't tell if my kids are in the car or not, they still need to be "told".

So please spotify - choose to be a versitile social app, not niche. It's the right thing to do for your users, your financiers, your advertisers and your future.

[jae12]

Just adding my voice to the chorus. PLEASE implement this feature!! I have young kids and would really appreciate being able to skip explicit content easily via a toggle button.

[user-removed]

We're sad to see you go You've cancelled your Spotify Premium subscription which will end on 2016-01-27.

When your subscription ends you will start hearing ads and you can no longer listen to your favourite songs offline. If you want to come back, Spotify Premium is just a click away.