[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.

[andymcollins]

It seems they have time to add some crappy ‘stranger things’ slider to turn
the screen upside down for compatible playlists. But no time to actually
put useful features on the app

[vgullotta]

@corybowe I only know that some of us have emailed their support department and some people have pasted their response from Spotify here that eluded that they just completed a testing phase. We also had someone post some screenshots a while back that they actually HAD the explicit filter on their accounts for a short time. Then it disappeared. The email from support kind of confirms they just went through a short testing phase by distributing it to a small number of users, so hopefully that means they are in the final phases of production.

However, my email I got from their support was the generic go pick your own non-explicit songs and make your own playlist, and so responded with a "that doesn't help when the kids ask Alexa to play today's top hits and it starts swearing at my kids non stop for hours", and they responded with a "we know this is frustrating and we think this is a great idea too and will tell our developers blah blah blah we'll let you know if it happens." generic response, so I don't know for sure, but I do think it is being worked on.

[penkreu56]

Explicit is already in the music metadata. A simple switch to disable these songs across the software should be easy.

[df24]

Why is this taking so incredibly long to get any action on!!! It should be ridiculously simple / trivial to implement, the complexity and difficulty level to implement this really important and necessary feature is really low. Obviously other issues at play, maybe / probably because it conflicts with agreements / T&Cs with content providers and artists. Get your act together Spotify, for pity's sake!!!

[Davygravy-79]

This has been going since 2012, the lack of an explicit filter is the only reason I have not upgraded to a family subscription. Please implement a filter and a PIN lock Spotify so I can let my children use the app alone. I know not all explicit tracks are tagged correctly but if the T&C's on activation of the explicit filter emails and warns the primary account holder of that then there should not be a legal issue?

[n8smith3]

Please add a block for explicit language. Make it not so hard to keep kids first, also adults that do not prefer the foul language so prevalent today. I promise you a lot of people will use the filter.

[partyhard]

Another year down and this feature hasn't been added. Makes me want to look for another provider. 

[luismigar]

an add-on to this idea. When I make a playlist sometimes I select the clean version and won't know until it plays on the playlist. To solve this problem there could be an option to switch to the explicit song or vice versa. Or maybe ask when I add it to a playlist: if there is a song with both versions a window pops up (like the one for duplicates) and asks which one I want. This could also be used for remix versions of songs and the user may select between adding all versions, only explicit or only clean, and select if remix, original or all. The remix idea may be for a different button, but I don't know.

[Terrabyte]

 So sad, will this ever become an option?

[stanhelp]

Other apps can do it why can't yours you need to fix it.  You have developers who created an outstanding product. I'm sure they are smart enough for this challenge.