[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.

[corybowe]

Wait...Spotify has an explicit filter built into the business account? So the code is literally...done already.

[vgullotta]

Sounds to me like they want to extort money from families getting them to
purchase the business account just to protect their kids. Also starting to
sound very much like a class action lawsuit.

[vgullotta]

Any lawyers on this thread want to comment on if this is worthy of a class action lawsuit? I am by no means a lawyer.

[corybowe]

It's starting to seem like this is a cash grab for the business account. I shouldn't need to pay for a business account to avoid playing dumb songs in front of my kids though.



I am also not a lawyer, but it seems like it's their choice to make. It's a terrible choice. I mean, a really awful, terrible choice. It seems like their grave to dig though and nobody else is gonna do much about it.

[Jkmcgee53]

Wow, I would like to know if any of this is really in Spotify’s business practice. I would think they could come up with a more creative way to get people to pay for business accounts than to promote dirty words. I’d like to think they were at the mercy of the artists and whether or not they actually provide a radio edit version of the song.  My issue is I still kinda want to hear the song, I just don’t want to always be cussed at. 

[johncats]

"Block Explicit Songs - Block songs with explicit lyrics with the click of a button"

The above is a quote from Soundtrack Business website.

Spotify business is known as soundtrack business outside Scandinavia but is the same thing and controlled by spotify. THE CODE HAS BEEN READY AND IN USE FOR A LONG TIME WHERE IT HAS BEEN TO THE FINANCIAL BENEFIT OF SPOTIFY. Spotify business is a curated service and not really suitable to general use in the home, so is in no way a competitor (at double the price) to the normal premium or family subscription, and not a viable "upgrade." I can only assume that Spotify continue to force filth onto the family plan to prevent the use of this general (and half the price) premium subscription in business circumstances. It also indicates the level of contempt that spotify hold towards the overwhelming majority of subscribers that do the right thing - and their children.

[Gdev3]

Could it be they are protecting themselves? Hear me out, if lots and lots of people listen to the top or latest songs. They would have to pay the artists more in royalties. Therefore having versions that people skip or turn off could actually be done on purpose, saving themselves money.

[Humanupter]

spotify=scumbags.

what i'm hearing is that if you want to filter explicit material out, you have to buy a higher paid business subscription... well then I'm OUT.

[CK30]

I'm going to take a slightly more conciliatory tone here - if this is a new feature for "business" then perhaps the next step Spotify has planned is to make it available to families 🙂 Let's hope!

On the other hand, I do wonder if there might be a law suit in the making if they do not...

[Rob255]

Is that right - is there a business version of Spotify that does include an
explicit filter?