[Connect] [Kids] Add Spotify Connect support for Spotify Kids

[fergusyarrow]

When playing music through Spotify Kids, it is not possible to cast the music to a Google Chromecast audio device. This has lead to many conversations revolving around “but why can’t I put my dance party on the stereo”, and so we have to go back to the main Spotify app to get said dance party going and avert the tears 😀And with the kids stuck at home on account of school closures and lockdowns, there are a lot of dance parties happening. And they much prefer the app geared towards them than the regular app. Because the Spotify Connect feature is already implemented in the main Spotify app, it should be implemented also in the Spotify Kids app to have the same connectivity options.

[ItsMeDarleneRae]

@Spotify any updates to this now that it is 2024?

[stewrogers]

Yea, We have multiple google home speakers and chromecasts. Our 2 kids have a google home speaker each and an android tablet. We had youtube music and they both have google accounts that allow me to restrict content, however we decided a blanket ban on youtube was necessary as the videos they watched were driving us nuts!

This ban also blocks Youtube music.

So now we have to set up Spotify with kids accounts for them, and they hate it. Our 9 year old just does not like anything about the experience, with the biggest annoyance being unable to stream to his speaker (both children particularly like going to sleep listening to relaxing music)

The actual only fix is to create proper accounts, lie about their ages and switch on the Explicit filters.

Thats a fairly terrible experience in 2024, for an £18 a month family account.

[LUISCONDEF]

I'm on the same page, my Kids are familiarized with the TV app and they end using my account to listen to "their" music while I'm driving, so I cannot listen to my music in my own profile and they aren't using their kids profile at all.

Also the app is not Android Auto compatible, so we can choose their profile for listening their playlists.

It doesn't make any sense the limitations. I'm probably ending creating email addresses and getting then proper accounts and loosing the perks of parental controls.

[Krittle]

June 2020 you recognize the idea as existing, 1 year later June 2021 and you say it has enough votes so you're bringing it to your tech team.... almost 3 years after bringing it to your team and we still have zero improvements. How hard can it be when every other app manages to do this. I'm about to cancel this - the kids app is useless. Not only does it not cast, but it also doesn't even come up with the same library of kids' songs as you have available in the standard spotify. I searched for the Disney Wish movie soundtrack on the kids app and got zero correct results (just a song by Skee-Lo, and songs from other movies that have the word Wish in them). If I perform that same search in the standard Spotify app, I get exactly what I want. We can't make playlists or listen to stations or do 90% of the things we can do in standard Spotify. wth.

[animald]

Three years of constant emails about replies to this topic and I finally come back to see you still have your fingers in your **bleep**. Ridiculous.

[michanbg]

This feature seems to be rocket science that is so difficult to implement that you'd rather produce the 748129th podcast that nobody wants to listen to...

[Jamestalmage]

Absolutely insane that this isn't just a done deal already! You already have this implemented in the default app, just port the freaking code already!

[Jamestalmage]

There's also a duplicate issue with another 300 votes....

Searching through your "Popular" and "Trending" ideas, none of them hold a candle to the votes and engagement you've got on this request. Closest has 1/4th the votes. Why are you dragging your feet?

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Setup-Spotify-Kids-as-a-service-in-Sonos/idi-p/4923350/p...

[Jamestalmage]

Everyone, it's not just 330 likes they are ignoring... There's a duplicate issue with 1,000+ likes and 10 pages of comments pleading for this.

I encourage everyone on this thread to go and like/vote/comment on that thread as well: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Connect-Kids-Add-Spotify-Connect-support-for-Spotify-Kid...

[Jamestalmage]

There are multiple duplicate requests with thousands of likes requesting this:

Everyone here should go like and comment on those other issues as well.

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Connect-Kids-Add-Spotify-Connect-support-for-Spotify-Kid...

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Setup-Spotify-Kids-as-a-service-in-Sonos/idc-p/5837020#M...