[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.

[scottmck72]

Strongly Agree! I listen at home and in the car with my 7 year old around.   I don't want to jump for the skip button if an explicit song comes on.  Spotify, the community has been requesting this feature for years but you just pay it lip service.  Terrible for such an easy fix.  If not addressed soon,  I'm canceling Premium and switching to Google.

[jojodancer_18]

I am totally for the Explicit filtering. But I would also like a feature that allows user to toggle between the Explicit version of an album and the clean version. At present, it takes FOREVER to find the clean version, and it's not necessarily visible from the artist's page. 

[JonRay]

Yes please!  I've tried multiple music services, and I've come back to Spotify because it's the best overall for me...except for the inability to filter explicit content.  I have no issue whatsoever listening to music containing explicit language.  However, I listen to music with my two young boys often.  On the one hand, they get it.  They know they hear this stuff sometimes and they know they shouldn't go around repeating it.  Problem is, when a good song gets stuck in your head, so do the explicit words.  My fear is one of my kids absent-mindedly singing a great song that just happens to have a curse word or two and getting in trouble for it.  Let me just make a playlist with an explicit filter that I play when I'm around my kids.  In my car or with no one around, I'll listen to whatever I fu#@%ing please!

[rtbonini]

https://twitter.com/rsbonini/status/879033676948008961

[jonwestcott]

For goodness sakes Spotify - SORT THIS OUT!!!

I have a 'family' subscription but some songs use quite disgusting language that is simply inappropriate for children.

[rbaumert]

Spotify!!!!

What is wrong with you guys?  Do we need to start a change.org petition?   You have a HUGE customer satisfaction (not to mention PR) issue here.    And you say and do NOTHING!  How arrogant can Spotify be?   How many companies are shells of their former selves (think Blackberry, Nokia, MySpace, etc) because they ran their own agenda vs giving the customers what they want.

I can't wait for a better service to come out and then we'll be reading case studies about how Spotify went down the tubes because they didn't anticipate and/or respond to customer/market demands.

[befinnerty]

I'm a group fitness instructor and would LOVE to use Spotify for my classes, but I ended up switching to Pandora b/c there's the option to utilize controls for explicit language. I did some searches on this site to see if others had the same issue, but the last post I can find with an answer  from Spotify is November 2016 - my assumption is an update has been made since this time??? Please advise. 

[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 

[jimka_2001]

This is not just to filter for children. I'm 51 years old and I don't want to hear **bleep**, **bleep**, and **bleep** when im listening to music.  

I wish Spotify would please explain why they can't add this feature.

[jimka_2001]

Funny that Spotify seems to have the technology to block offensive text in the forums, but doesn't think it's important enough to offer it's customers.