[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.

[jacobsato]

Spotify is well aware that competitors offer this. They choose not offer this service. You need to simply uninstall the program and quietly move to Google Play, iTunes, etc.

[johncats]

Jacobsato you have recommended several times that customers should cease complaining on this forum and just move on, because it is obvious that Spotify is well aware of the problem and refuses to act. Are you trying to quieten the outrage felt by parents and carers? How does that help anyone except Spotify? Yes move elsewhere but not quietly. Did spotify **bleep** on your children? They did with mine and it is not something I am going to be quiet about, and I hope a robust forum will stand as a warning to others.

[whoneu]

Interested in this as well. My four-year-old niece has been singing the explicit version of Cake by the Ocean 😱

[wmsbtrfly]

YES PLEASE!! I love all the Spotify created Playlists, but there are always any number of explicit language songs mixed in.  Because I didn't create the playlist, I am not able to delete those songs from the que. I'm around kids 99.9% of the time, and cannot have that kind of language coming out of the speakers. Please help!

#tiredofKidsBop!!

[SMatsko8]

Yesterday I was playing an album of kids' bible songs, and 4 rap/hip hop songs, some with explicit lyrics came on! And when I skipped one, another popped up! If there's no way to protect my kiddo from this, I'll definitely stop using Spotify. I listen almost all day at work and often have to skip songs quickly, change stations, or stop the app because "related" content with explicit lyrics comes on. Absolutely awful for professionalism. 

[user-removed]

This feature is long overdue. Spotify - stop delaying and making excuses - just get it done!

[sph130]

I had the same problem as you all with explicit songs -  My niece and nephew would be at a summer bbq and I'd have spotify. I had to run back to change the song each time some swear word came along. I didn't want to do that any more and now I don't have too.

I created this: http://kidsafeplaylist.com  you login with spotify and then search for a playlist you want to make safe. It removes all the explicit tagged songs and creates a version of it in your account called KidSafe: <original plalylist> . Then I now just play those when kids are around and I know I'm good. It's not a complete solution in Spotify as it requires an extra step but the playlist it creates is now available in all of the places I use Spotify. 

I made it free to use as much as you want I only ask for donations through PayPal which is in the lower corner of the app if you think it's something that you like and use alot to pay for the server - costs me about 25$/month to run (it's getting about 10,000 hits a day). 

[jmotsko]

Seriously? Wanting to keep my 3rd and 5th graders (who are huge music
fans) from listening to explicit lyrics makes me a religious extremist?

Content filtering is a basic feature that other streaming services and
media devices have had for years. It's not asking Spotify to censor or
sanitize any songs. That Spotify is trying to upsell users to a family plan
without some sort of filtering capability for younger users is pretty
ridiculous.

[Jeffron32]

I have cancelled my subscription  to spotify because of this, and I am switching to Apple music. When an explicit content filter is created, please let me know and I'll come running  back. It's just not worth using spotify without this option

[jacobsato]

Awesome!