Parental Controls
Is there 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.
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I'm a longtime Sonos fan running 9 zones and personally responsible for at least half a dozen other current Sonos fans, so don't take his he wrong way, but this has been a major issue for 10 years Sonos doesn't seem to care about. I'm thinking a Chromecast audio plugged into a zone may be the hack to solve this. This $35 fix makes Sonos rather irrelevant for future zones which is sad. Anyone tried this?
"Apple Music at this time does not have a feature that filters explicit content for Sonos.
I have submitted feedback on your behalf regarding this feature not being available yet, and I encourage you to also use that feedback link I previously provided."
I will put the pressure on Apple, as I hope others that read this thread do too.
Don't get me wrong I love Sonos and Apple but I feel strongly about this (I never would have cared before my kids came along). Hopefully they will include this support in future software updates
Totally with you here. When my kids aren't around, bring on the unfiltered stuff. But I want them to be able to use Sonos / Apple music and not have to worry about what they're going to come across.
Is there a link you can share to submit a request to Apple?
http://www.apple.com/feedback/apple-music.html
Please do send them feedback - I'd love to get more people requesting this
OK, just sent them something. Thanks for the link.
Thanks. I've also submitted requests to Apple.
What would be helpful is to know whether it's a Sonos issue or an Apple issue, so that I can follow up with the right party.
Still waiting....
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Apple are responsible for the implementation of their service in the Sonos system.
I think the way around this in the future will have to go along the lines of playing to Sonos from within the native Apple Music app, like Sonos has done with Spotify. At least then you can use Apple's native filtering within their app, which works the bulk of the time.
Count me in as someone who would like to see this feature. Especially since more and more the top playlists are usually filled with explicit songs. Even the auto-generated weekly playlists from Apple usually have at least one or two explicit songs. I have to avoid these altogether on my Sonos when my kids are around, especially since the New Music Mix contains songs that I don't know enough to change from memory. Even an indicator that the song is explicit like Apple Music has would be a step in the right direction.
Like one of the previous posters I left spotify to join Apple for their music filters. This is not totally wasted as I can now at least listen to playlists in the car without the fear of Effing n Jeffing coming out of nowhere, and our youngster learning about motherfuckers at the age of 6. I was however a bit disappointed to find that this doesn't carry through to Sonos, and judging by the age of similar posts doesn't look like it's going to happen either. Has anyone tried alternatives to Sonos that offer this kind of basic feature?
Checking in here for the update, I still have not seen progress in this area. I still contend that the way to go is to be able to feed to Sonos directly from the native Apple Music app, so that you can at least see "explicit" indicators, and (hopefully), have your device settings (more importantly your kids' device settings) controlling access to them.
Checking on this as well. Just changed from Spotify because of no explicit filter. Using Apple Music and loving it around the family until I find that the filter doesn't work with Sonos. What's up with that? Any update on getting to play to Sonos through the Apple Music app like you can directly from Spotify? Any other solutions?
Well at least now you can see the "E" indicator in Sonos. Helps navigate the mine field somewhat. Still would prefer control from native app. However, my bet is that will never happen now that Apple is pushing their own speaker.
Great for Apple Music users, it's about time it was implemented for all sources that have the ability to flag explicit content. I can't believe it that difficult to achieve.
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Unless I’m missing something, the Sonos app does not, at least in the UK ‘honour’ the filter explocity songs setting that is available in the native Spotify app. My workaround for when the kids are around to to save the spotify olaylist and simply delete the songs labelled with an E. Not ideal, but kids are getting older so only a short term workaround needed.
Are these forums just feel good, ie lets just vent our feelings, or does Sonos read them? It looks like this thread is 2 years old. I use Pandora and I believe this issue still exists. Please fix! It's really embarrassing when my VP asks me why the music is inappropriate in our Cafe.
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