[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.

[tmnc]

You already tag songs. Shouldn't be so fracking difficult.

[rbaumert]

Here is partlial list of investors (per Crunchbase) in Spotify along with their twitter handles.  Below are the screenshots I tweeted:

SPOTIFY INVESTORS (Partial List):

Sonali De Rycker (Accel Partners):  https://twitter.com/sonalidr  @sonalidr @Accel

Par-Jorgen Parson (Northzone):  https://twitter.com/pjparson @pjparson  @northzoneVC

Mary Meeker (Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers):  https://twitter.com/kpcb @kpcb

Woody Marshall (TCV):  https://twitter.com/TCVTech @TCVTech

Ken Hertz (Hertz Lichtenstein & Young):  https://twitter.com/kenhertz @kenhertz

Yuri Milner (DST Global):  https://twitter.com/yuri_milner @yuri_milner

Brian Singerman (Founders Fund):  https://twitter.com/briansin @briansin

Sean Parker (Causes):  https://twitter.com/sparker @sparker

Fredrick Cassell (Creandum):  https://twitter.com/_fredrik  @_fredrik

Sven Weber (SharesPost Investment Mgmt):  https://twitter.com/bauhausvc @bauhausvc

Lee Fixel (Tiger Global Management):  https://twitter.com/leefixel @leefixel

[paul_mccrorey]

@rbaumert

That is EXCELLENT!  I've added those to the blog post on my site.  I am going to use it as a repository for these ideas.  GREAT JOB!

Repository Blog Post

Keep the momentum up!

[rlraymer]

I have since gone over to Apple Music which has a explicit content blocker.

[daws5210]

Come on good people at Spotify you really need to get this sorted, i listen all the time with my kids in the car and they shouldn't be hearing the language that some artists feel the need to include.  Help me out here please.

[MOMTO3]

It seems like they don't care about their customers at all when our wishes
are ignored for years at a time!!!!

[darce_32]

Can we at least get a solid answer that this is on the cards to be done, or how many votes would be required to action the explicit button. Please dont respond with vague jargan, 

cheers

[DanielHockingAU]

It's surely not that difficult guys. You're pulling in 10 bucks a month from about a zillion users but you can't employ someone with the brains to add an explicit filter; or better yet the ability to subsitute in radio edit songs. Why did nobody have the idea to add this feature years ago? Many other apps have this feature...

[epgil]

Get real.

Without looking at the code, you can't possibly know that the 'explicit'
label "...has nothing to do with how easy it would be to code." And you're
dead wrong.

Without even looking at the code, I can tell you for absolute certain that
the presence of the label guarantees that there is at least one mechanism
already in place to facilitate a simple filter. There are probably several
.

Explicit songs either:
1. Share a common field in a relational database
2. Are members of a common class
3. Share a common object property key value
4. At the very least, contain a string for which the method
indexOf('explicit') returns true.

Any first year computer science student could implement this feature with
ease. There is no technical challenge at play here. This is a business
decision. Plain and simple. So... It's time to hit them in the business.

File a complaint with your state attorney general's office. File a
complaint with the FCC. Contact the BBB. Try to organize a class action
lawsuit. Blow up your social media accounts with a simple, catchy phrase
like "Spotify doesn't care." Get creative.

Any of these by themselves won't be impactful. Some of these suggestions
are a stretch at best. Even frivolous. But if ten thousand people did all
of it multiple times, don't you think that could get the point across a
little better than this mostly ignored comment thread?

[thetownfool]

I can only assume the product owners don't have kids. Shame on you and your narrow minded priorities.