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I'm increasingly frustrated with their response to Community Ideas and feature requests. Here's a really dumb, simple one: They won't allow you to filter out

I'm increasingly frustrated with their response to Community Ideas and feature requests. Here's a really dumb, simple one: They won't allow you to filter out explicit songs. Even though they already have the metadata indicating a song has explicit lyrics. Lots of customers have asked for it. It has been voted highly on "Community Idea". Still no progress multiple years later.

mrsmee89 8y ago
I’m not sure about letting you filter but they have a toggle to hide explicit songs in settings -> explicit content (on iOS at least)
- krrrh 8y ago
  No service seems to handle this well. I mostly want the opposite: show only uncensored versions in searches and playlists, but it would also be nice to globally toggle to clean versions if I’m hanging out with a child. It’s frustrating and cluttering to see both versions in the catalogue as if they are separate releases.
  - brailsafe 8y ago
    The problem is also impacted by how those songs get onto the platform. Apparently, music companies literally just upload the music files, correct metadata or not
joshstrange 8y ago
You know what also dumb? If you have an explicit song in a playlist and then that song becomes un-available due to some licensing deal from the original licenser but is still available (in explicit and explicit) form another licenser sometimes your explicit song will get swapped for the clean version. It's incredibly jarring and at least the last time I dealt with the issue it was really hard to find the explicit song from the mobile app to fix my playlist and had to do it on the desktop.
wikwocket 8y ago
The inability to filter explicit songs out is maddening! And it's a glaring omission to anyone with young children. I have seen it skip from a My Little Pony song to an explicit Patton Oswalt standup bit (perhaps because he voiced a character once... I have no clue) while my daughter was listening. Another annoying one is how you can choose an exact song to play on tablet or on PS4, but not from your phone - you can only shuffle play there. Try explaining that to a 5 year old.
- mattnewton 8y ago
  The search tab allows you choose any song you want on iOS- what platform doesn’t let you play a particular song? Agree on the explicit filter though. Seems like such an auto-include for things like parents or storefront playlists
- thinkythought 8y ago
  That's a bug that's been around for AGES that they still haven't patched. I hate it. If you force kill the app and reopen it, suddenly you can choose songs(usually). Then after a while, suddenly you can't. It took me months to figure out what was going on because i'd have another phone in my house right there that could do it, then that wouldn't be able to either suddenly...
lovehashbrowns 8y ago
Spotify's UI and their response to features is the worst thing ever. I really wish Play Music or whatever started integrating Youtube video music as well, and that it actually stopped skipping during play so I could make the switch. Like I can't re-size columns anymore. Used to be able to do this. Now it's gone. It's super obnoxious for playlists that have classical music in them because oftentimes the piece gets cut off. Then there are SO many bugs in the UI. I had a super annoying one a few weeks ago where I have shuffle on, and if I manually picked a song to play, that would turn shuffle off. So any time I wanted to hear a specific song in my 300+ song playlist, I had to turn shuffle on again. Oh and ANOTHER super obnoxious bug/feature: after a while, downloaded playlists just aren't downloaded anymore. This is extra annoying for flights because I KNOW I have playlists set to download, I KNOW they finished downloading, I KNOW they were downloaded and playable for a few weeks, but still every damn time I get on the plane, after a few weeks of the playlist being downloaded, the files are gone. And I'm stuck on the plane in offline mode with no music to listen to. Play music doesn't have this issue. In fact, I don't have to tell it to download anything. Last weekend on my flight to LA, Play Music had cached/downloaded the two playlists I use the most. Spotify is such garbage. I hate it so much.
- arafa 8y ago
  Is this with uploaded music? If so, it could be an issue with regular music syncing deleting or having them become unavailable. That feature is super finicky and iffy and I only ever do manual syncs to mostly avoid it. Another fun classical music bug is when you try to share those songs in Discord and they break the stream, probably because the titles are too long.
  - lovehashbrowns 8y ago
    Nope, it's not with uploaded music. I don't upload any music to Spotify because it (as far as I know) doesn't sync across devices. This is the issue I'm seeing: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Android/Downloaded-songs-and-playlists-disappeared-for-the-5th-time-now/td-p/1376581 https://community.spotify.com/t5/Android/Downloaded-songs-an... I believe it's something with Android and restarting the device. It'll happen on my Android tablet, too.
hackerbrother 8y ago
Also, on iOS you can swipe right on a song to queue it, but can't do it on android! Also a popular community idea
hbosch 8y ago
Here's one better: I want to filter out an artist from ever appearing in my playlists. I would love to block artists from my music universe.
Eridrus 8y ago
> Even though they already have the metadata indicating a song has explicit lyrics. Heh, I talked to someone from a large tech company about this who was working with this data, and in his opinion the "explicit" metadata that record labels provided wasn't very good.
Flimm 8y ago
Actually, you can filter out explicit songs, but the option is only visible in the mobile app (I have Android). Once you turn it on, it also works on the desktop client signed in to the same account.

mrsmee89 8y ago

I’m not sure about letting you filter but they have a toggle to hide explicit songs in settings -> explicit content (on iOS at least)

krrrh 8y ago
No service seems to handle this well. I mostly want the opposite: show only uncensored versions in searches and playlists, but it would also be nice to globally toggle to clean versions if I’m hanging out with a child. It’s frustrating and cluttering to see both versions in the catalogue as if they are separate releases.
- brailsafe 8y ago
  The problem is also impacted by how those songs get onto the platform. Apparently, music companies literally just upload the music files, correct metadata or not

joshstrange 8y ago

You know what also dumb? If you have an explicit song in a playlist and then that song becomes un-available due to some licensing deal from the original licenser but is still available (in explicit and explicit) form another licenser sometimes your explicit song will get swapped for the clean version. It's incredibly jarring and at least the last time I dealt with the issue it was really hard to find the explicit song from the mobile app to fix my playlist and had to do it on the desktop.

wikwocket 8y ago

The inability to filter explicit songs out is maddening! And it's a glaring omission to anyone with young children. I have seen it skip from a My Little Pony song to an explicit Patton Oswalt standup bit (perhaps because he voiced a character once... I have no clue) while my daughter was listening. Another annoying one is how you can choose an exact song to play on tablet or on PS4, but not from your phone - you can only shuffle play there. Try explaining that to a 5 year old.

mattnewton 8y ago
The search tab allows you choose any song you want on iOS- what platform doesn’t let you play a particular song? Agree on the explicit filter though. Seems like such an auto-include for things like parents or storefront playlists
thinkythought 8y ago
That's a bug that's been around for AGES that they still haven't patched. I hate it. If you force kill the app and reopen it, suddenly you can choose songs(usually). Then after a while, suddenly you can't. It took me months to figure out what was going on because i'd have another phone in my house right there that could do it, then that wouldn't be able to either suddenly...

lovehashbrowns 8y ago

Spotify's UI and their response to features is the worst thing ever. I really wish Play Music or whatever started integrating Youtube video music as well, and that it actually stopped skipping during play so I could make the switch. Like I can't re-size columns anymore. Used to be able to do this. Now it's gone. It's super obnoxious for playlists that have classical music in them because oftentimes the piece gets cut off. Then there are SO many bugs in the UI. I had a super annoying one a few weeks ago where I have shuffle on, and if I manually picked a song to play, that would turn shuffle off. So any time I wanted to hear a specific song in my 300+ song playlist, I had to turn shuffle on again. Oh and ANOTHER super obnoxious bug/feature: after a while, downloaded playlists just aren't downloaded anymore. This is extra annoying for flights because I KNOW I have playlists set to download, I KNOW they finished downloading, I KNOW they were downloaded and playable for a few weeks, but still every damn time I get on the plane, after a few weeks of the playlist being downloaded, the files are gone. And I'm stuck on the plane in offline mode with no music to listen to. Play music doesn't have this issue. In fact, I don't have to tell it to download anything. Last weekend on my flight to LA, Play Music had cached/downloaded the two playlists I use the most. Spotify is such garbage. I hate it so much.

arafa 8y ago
Is this with uploaded music? If so, it could be an issue with regular music syncing deleting or having them become unavailable. That feature is super finicky and iffy and I only ever do manual syncs to mostly avoid it. Another fun classical music bug is when you try to share those songs in Discord and they break the stream, probably because the titles are too long.
- lovehashbrowns 8y ago
  Nope, it's not with uploaded music. I don't upload any music to Spotify because it (as far as I know) doesn't sync across devices. This is the issue I'm seeing: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Android/Downloaded-songs-and-playlists-disappeared-for-the-5th-time-now/td-p/1376581 https://community.spotify.com/t5/Android/Downloaded-songs-an... I believe it's something with Android and restarting the device. It'll happen on my Android tablet, too.

hackerbrother 8y ago

Also, on iOS you can swipe right on a song to queue it, but can't do it on android! Also a popular community idea

hbosch 8y ago

Here's one better: I want to filter out an artist from ever appearing in my playlists. I would love to block artists from my music universe.

Eridrus 8y ago

> Even though they already have the metadata indicating a song has explicit lyrics. Heh, I talked to someone from a large tech company about this who was working with this data, and in his opinion the "explicit" metadata that record labels provided wasn't very good.

Flimm 8y ago

Actually, you can filter out explicit songs, but the option is only visible in the mobile app (I have Android). Once you turn it on, it also works on the desktop client signed in to the same account.