[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.

[jenyria]

Spotify (as a company) seems really hung up on this "censorship" thing. "Oooh but if we let you block explicit content that's censorship!!" 

Er, no, it's not. 

Not having explicit tracks available at all, that would be censorship, I agree - however you are massively, HUGELY missing the point. If the word censorship comes into it at all, the ideal would be that the user chooses to self-censor.

All we want is a simple "please don't show me tracks marked 'explicit'" button. 

This would be totally up to the user then, they could block the explicit tracks and happily put Spotify on at a gathering or with the kids there knowing they're not suddenly going to get "N***er motherf****** bit****" blasting out over the speakers. The user can disable the block at any time and re-enable it as they see fit. 

I really don't see why this is so hard. 

[estesec]

Help!! I really need to filter explict content! I absolutely love spotify and have been so very happy with your service, but as a parent, I get seriously angry when I'm listening in the car with a group of elementary age girls and hear women being denigrated or the F-bomb!  Seriously!! I listen almost exclusively to Playlists b/c I am on Wifi for very short periods of time.  Please get this done, Spotify! 

[dcarreira]

I would buy spotify for my family but the lack of parental controls prohibits.  Other parents in our group of friends feel the same way   
Dominic

[basuc]

The lack of this capability makes Spotify unusable in many situations. As a software developer I know that If you can mark something explicit you can also easily filter it out too. It's total garbage that it hasn't been done. I pay for Spotify yet I can't use it most of the time - I have kids around.

[cyprien]

I was given a promotional 'return to Spotify' rate of $9.99 CAD for 3 months.  I haven't redeemed it (I have since moved to Apple Music).  I was tempted but I just keep thinking that I cant really use the service because of the lack of filtering. 😞

[Alex_v_g]

That trigger is really needed since sometimes spotify radio playing when my child is nearby.

Wife is also angry about that.

Please make a button or check box in preferences.

[Frojoe2004]

I've emailed customer service and have had several back and forths with them on this issue. All I get are replies about censorship. I don't think they understand what censorship is.

Spottify, Censorship would be you not allowing your customers to listen to certain music. Adding an optional filter does not remove the option for users to listen to explicit music. All this does is add versitility to your platform increasing it's field of use (like at work, school events, or other more conservative atmospheres). Having an anti-censorship policy is admerable. I too am 100% opposed to censorship. But having a "you have no control over exposure to explicit content" policy is just plane stupid and arrogant. Get off your high horse, it's not even real. Your arguments make absolutely no sense and only serve to anger and frustrate people more.

If your policy truely is that you think people shouldn't be able to control their listening experience, and that your curation is above our preferences, fine, than say that. But don't go hiding under the false guise of an anti-censorship policy. It just makes you all look utterly dim beyond belief. 

I can't help but get the feeling that there is some alterior motive though. The response seem cold and devoid of concern. As if this increases their margins somehow. I don't see how anything like that could make up for the loss of subscriptions and ad revinue from the lack of this very simple feature.

So god help me if the next e-mail I send out recieves an anti-censorship response. You know that is not the case. Either that, or you are profoundly stupid. 

[basuc]

I think we're going to have to censor the Spotify app! Oh did I mean
filter?

It's a bunch of Bologna by their lawyers.
They mentioned that before. I agree - censorship and being able to filter
the content on your phone are completely different.

[basuc]

I think we're going to have to censor the Spotify app! Oh did I mean
filter?

It's a bunch of Bologna by their lawyers.
They mentioned that before. I agree - censorship and being able to filter
the content on your phone are completely different.

[Spotterfoo]

Seriously?

I'm new to Spotify, but it simply didn't enter my head that you would not have this function already!

You're selling Spotify for the whole family! Yet you don't provide an option to censor the content my kids would get?

I certainly won't be getting spotify family until this option is in place, and I'll probably close my account when my promo is up.

Sorry.