[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.

[elijah81]

It's astounding to me that the ability to filter out songs labelled "explicit" remains nowhere to be seen. 

[rbaumert]

How many years and how many comments does Spotify need until the implement ability to filter explicit content.

Key requirements:

• Filter explicit songs
• Filter/disallow explicit podcasts (nobody talks about this much but a kid can go listen to one of many explicit podcasts)
• Enforce explicit filter via a parental password (so that kids can't disable the explicit filter)
  
  

Bonus:

• Allow parents to create and enforce filtering/blacklisting specific artists AND songs that may not have expletives but have content that some may view as inappropriate (disrespecting women, referencing drug use, referencing suicide).

I am amazed that the last "update" from Spotify on this issue is November 2016.  HORRIBLE customer service.  

[sfairbourne]

I pains me to say it because my music life has revolved around Spotify for
years, but:

1: they are not listening
2: they don't care
3: they're not going to fix this
4: if they ever do, I'll be just as stuck on Apple Music.

[sfairbourne]

I pains me to say it because my music life has revolved around Spotify for
years, but:

1: they are not listening
2: they don't care
3: they're not going to fix this
4: if they ever do, I'll be just as stuck on Apple Music.

[Mister_A]

Over 5 years since this was suggested, come on Spotify pull your finger out!

[arimus]

+1 Re-iterating what everyone else is saying. Young ones / family / location / etc. Great feature to add for users, so really hope to see this soon.

Keep upvoting and sharing this page to get their attention folks, because it's not unlikely that this feature is being intentionally withheld from users. There may even be something in the contract terms with the Artist's / Labels that prevent Spotify from just implementing this simple feature. That part may be more complex than the feature itself, but it's certainly good for users and we should have the right to filter out the explicit content when we're paying for that content. It will likely take lots of customer demand to get them to even attempt to move on this and make it worthwhile for them to deal with the potential hurdles.

Spotify has an opportunity to delight a large number of customers here though and the PR alone may be worth it. I've personally been wanting this feature for years now and I just had a friend stumble upon this thread and share it with me. There are many many more folks than are represented here, that would be very excited to see this feature finally added to the app.

Help us Spotify!

[bklinn]

Not about license, etc.  Apple has done it.  Years ago.  And you can lock the setting.

See below: Restrict    music with explicit content

Spotify just doesn't want to.

Bye Bye Spotify

[rbaumert]

As people probably know, Daniel Ek is the Spotify CEO.   According to Wikipedia he has 2 children.  I have to think as a father, he would not want his kids lisiting to explitives, S*x filled lyrics, etc.  Interestingly, on Twitter, his description of himself says "Father, CEO and Founder of Spotify".  I would be led to believe he views himself as a father first.

Since all these comments (300+ pages) don't seem to be having an effect within Spotify.  Suggest all those who want parental controls for explicit content (songs, albums, artists, podcasts, etc.) reach out to Daniel Ek on social media:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/eldsjal

Twitter: https://twitter.com/eldsjal?lang=en 

[Brooke86]

I love this idea. I can understand why Spotify can't always offer censored music, but this seems like a fabulous compromise that would make me feel a lot better. I hope this becomes on option someday... sooner rather than later! 

[Brooke86]

Oh wow... I didn't see all these other comments before I added my two cents. I see now that there are tons of people begging for this. I can't imagine it's *that* hard to progam this into an update, since the explicit songs are already marked as such, but I don't know anything about programming, either.