[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.

[tonyp8on]

I think explicit lyrics are part of Spotify's marketing strategy. If you are listening on shuffle play for free, the only option you have is to switch off or  carry on listening to explicit tracks. Only by upgrading to a premium account can you skip to a less explicit track. I thought, I could avoid explicit tracks by listening to classical music: it worked but the spanner in the works, designed to annoy the listener to upgrading in this case, was a spoken word track of an interview / lecture about the composer. Okay, so I thought, how about listening to a Christian contemporary music artist? No explicit lyrics. No spoken word track.The annoy you into upgrading algorithm then involves playing the same track over and over again, to bore me into wanting to upgrade.

Spotify are no fools (from a business perspective at least), I reckon the presence of racist/sexist/misogynistic content in their playlists probably earns more revenue than they would earn through having an explicit filter. Why else would they be so resistant to making this change?

[sc00terG]

I did it too, just cancelled my premium subscription and also emailed premium@spotify.com to explain why. Fed up with them pedalling same lines about censorship and ask me to suggest it on the forum when it already has 1000's of votes. Apple Music for me now as I can tuck a box to remove explicit content.

[texcands]

This is important and we are considering moving to an alternate subscription service. We use spotify for pool parties and family weekends and like to create stations and browse genres rather than creating playlists. But even folk and indie channels have songs like "Mother**bleep**er" popping up more and more frequently. Also, we were considering purchasing the family account so my tween children could being to have their own playlists, but I'm absolutely never going to do that until I can control explicit lyrics. I do not think this is a nice-to-have, I think this is a critical feature if you are really hoping to make traction with this new family subscription. 

[johncats]

spotify family filth

[888margo888]

Ok, for those of you who would like a work around for spotify at work and do not want to create your own playlists song by song here is what worked for me on a PC.

 1.   Choose a playlist e.g. "Top 100 tracks currently on Spotify"

  2.  Right Click on first listing 

  3.  Scroll to bottom of list

  4.  Hold down Shift

   5.  Right Click on last listing

   6.  Select Add to PlaylistNote pencil cursor. New Photo can be added as well as name change and blurb by right clicking.

  7.  Now you can scroll through

  8.  Select explicit

  9.  Right click

10.  Choose "Remove from this Playlist" 

11.  Depending on number of explicit selections it can take 5 or so minutes. 

Note reduction of time and number of songs when explicit are removed.

 12.  Finished. 

 13.  100 songs down to 65 - 5 hours 50 min down to 3hr 50 min 

 Alert! I left one explicit song  on this playlist because it was a test and I liked the song.

My son told me that the family plan is not for families. It is for college age students that live 4-5 in a house and they are hoping to make some money off of them. This is to avoid one person getting the premium and everyone else sharing the password. The family plan allows everyone in the house to have their own account for a small amount of money. Makes sense to me. 

 I like Spotify for lots of reasons but I REALLY do not like that we cannot hit a button and not play explicit listings.

[cyprien]

last few days on Spotify Premium. I have a concurrent Apple Music account and spent a long car drive today getting used to no profanity in my music - plus the occasional Taylor Swift song.  Seems good so far. 🙂

If i really hate Apple Music I can always come back - spotify was happy to let me know.

[Bluemanta]

Same here, i just got my reminder to cancel my premium on Thursday if the button was not added by then. It's been 3 months and doesn't look like Spotify is going to implement this button any time soon.

Too bad.

[LeilaHauck]

Pandora offers this feature, yet Spotify does not. What does that tell you about the company who can't keep up with customers requests and technology? 

[LeilaHauck]

Too many families out here who prefer a clean version. 

[Bluemanta]

Just wondering, Spotify is keeping all these requests here in their own forum but it is not really reaching large audience unless you come here to read about it. I'm thinking of setting up a facebook page dedicated to elevating this issue to larger audience.

This page would not be under Spotify's control so they will not be able to prevent the public from becoming aware of this issue.

Any thoughts?