[All Platforms] Parental Controls

[supercosmic]

I love this service. My wife and I are both premium subscribers. I really hate being tied down to an archaic service like iTunes, but for my kids, I really have no choice. I would happily pay for more premium subscriptions for my kids to have their own Spotify accounts if there was a way I could make sure explicit songs are blocked. I dont care if this is a free feature, I am happy to pay for it. Until it exists or my kids get a lot older, its money you are leaving on the table Spotify. I have to think I am not the only parent who would be happy to pay for this. Seems easy enough to implement, so why not make it another reason to go premium?

[samgeorge3]

I would like to use Spotify premium in my coffee shop, however due to the lack of controls over explicit content I will have to use Pandora instead.  Which is a shame, I like Spotify so much better.  Once again, their lack of providing this option is costing them business.

[meahtenoha]

Hi @supercosmic I believe this idea is pretty similar to the "Explicit Only/ Edited Only option" idea. Or were you looking for a change that was password protected? 

[mactabby]

Pretty trivial to have a setting in your account profile which turns on a filter for songs and album artwork marked explicit.

Got given a short Spotify Premium subscription for my Birthday, but the lack of parental controls means I won't be renewing, sorry! 

[sarasydney]

Kudos!  I just went in to see if I could add parental controls and found these comments.  Spotify, please add parental controls to your service...my daughter is going on 10 and is better at finding and favoriting songs than I am.  She has accidentally done this with explicit songs unknowingly...I have to go in and look every day to make sure she's not listening to anything she shouldn't.  Please, please add.

[sandman2k]

Please add the parental controls.  I am not using it for the living room because of this.  Use it only at work.  Ridiculous that you cannot do this with a premium subscription.

[cholec-us]

I love Spotify, but may leave over this.  My kids love music and love the versatility of Spotify, but I can't let them have accounts until I know they aren't going to be barraged by the huge amount of swearing and non-kid appropriate music that is available on Spotify.  I'm far from a prude, but I am a responsible parent.  Please give me a responsible service...

[Silas]

I would love to provide access to my daughter but not without some controls in place. Kudos for the idea.

[rungord]

Even in the kids playlist subsection I find songs with an "explicit lyrics" tag.  Seriously.  This is the ONE thing I dislike about Spotify so far.  This feels like a really really obvious option that I'm surprised to hear doesn't already exist.

[sarahodell1]

I totally agree with this! It would also be fantstic if ads played during kid music weren't so profane/scary/awful. There are kid friendly ads, and my biggest complaint with Spotify is the lack of ad screening....

[ed-k]

Spotify also needs to get non-explicit versions of the songs, just like iTunes has. My kids love some of these songs but there's no way I'll play the explicit version.