Filter for explicit songs from the music library / services

Hello, Sonos does not currently have a way to filter out explicit songs or activate parental controls. However, if this is something you'd like to see from Sonos in the future, I can change this topic to an Idea thread so others can comment and +1 a request for such a feature.

Hello, Sonos does not currently have a way to filter out explicit songs or activate parental controls. However, if this is something you'd like to see from Sonos in the future, I can change this topic to an Idea thread so others can comment and +1 a request for such a feature.
Ryan, why aren't you guys doing this? We'll be dropping soon as we can't listen to top tracks.... Or anything else with my young kids. The only thing holding me back from switching to another provider is that they don't offer the filtering. As soon as they do, I'm gone from spotify...

Hello, Sonos does not currently have a way to filter out explicit songs or activate parental controls. However, if this is something you'd like to see from Sonos in the future, I can change this topic to an Idea thread so others can comment and +1 a request for such a feature.
Demand the Apis from spotify to filter this garbage content. They already do this in their stand alone app.

For us to continue to utilize our sonos system and Rhapsody this is a must. I can't believe you currently do not offer this. We should be able to play the top charts without having to run to the source to skip the songs that are completely inappropriate to play with children and are certainly offensive to the over 40 crowd. Ridiculous this should have been a no brainer as part of the software design.

Hello, Sonos does not currently have a way to filter out explicit songs or activate parental controls. However, if this is something you'd like to see from Sonos in the future, I can change this topic to an Idea thread so others can comment and +1 a request for such a feature.
I'd also like to see a content filtering solution.  I have several songs in my library that I enjoy, but I do not want my children to access.  If I could either password protect a portion of my library or use some feature on Sonos that hides the explicit content from the little ones but allows me to access it, that would solve my problem.  If the key terms "parental filter" or adult content filter were added to this, I am guessing that it would get more people responding to the "me too" button above.  This would be a highly valuable feature for Sonos to provide to its loyal customers.  Thank you.

I'm confused why this is a merged topic when the only thing the requests have in common is the intent to scrub out explicit lyrics.  The request to have a filter for Spotify, Pandora, or Rhapsody is an issue of the system being programmed to recognize and block explicit song titles, which would require Sonos to develop a database of explicit songs and would require that the system connect with this database and scrub it's content.  This programming could/should certainly overlap with scrubbing the Sonos user's song library.  However, it seems like there can be a separate and easy fix released from Sonos that would allow the user to add a tag to their personal library songs to label them as explicit and screen them from younger/unauthorized users.  Sonos, is this user controlled feature not a pretty simple request, comparatively?

To me, this should be left up to individual services to provide, not the hardware makers. Google and Slacker are two music services that both provide explicit language filters in their radio services already. Log into the web player for both services, go to the settings, and there is a checkbox to block explicit songs in Radio.

Music services KNOW what songs are explicit and what aren't (based on the information they receive from the record labels, which may not always be correct, so an occasional song might get through). That information may not always be passed to Sonos. So even if Sonos were to implement an explicit filter of some sort, if a service didn't provide that info to Sonos those songs may still get played.

As far as your own music library... Well if you download it, I'd say that's on you, and don't think Sonos should "police" your own music library.

Spotify exposes the APIs for Sonos to create the App.  I would be very surprised if the APIs did not provide access to explicit content information....and if they didn't, I would again think that it would be a bit of a no brainer for Spotify to be able to add that information.  My guess would be that Sonos doesn't want to invest the time/money into adding the filtering functionality within their app.

To me, this should be left up to individual services to provide, not the hardware makers. Google and Slacker are two music services that both provide explicit language filters in their radio services already. Log into the web player for both services, go to the settings, and there is a checkbox to block explicit songs in Radio.

Music services KNOW what songs are explicit and what aren't (based on the information they receive from the record labels, which may not always be correct, so an occasional song might get through). That information may not always be passed to Sonos. So even if Sonos were to implement an explicit filter of some sort, if a service didn't provide that info to Sonos those songs may still get played.

As far as your own music library... Well if you download it, I'd say that's on you, and don't think Sonos should "police" your own music library.
This is the reason the music library and the music services issue should not be linked into one idea thread.

MikeV, I respectfully disagree with your comment.  I have an extensive music collection, some of which is only appropriate for adults.  That is quite normal.  You look like a young man, so perhaps you have not yet faced this parenting dilemma.

I do not use services because my personal library is so extensive.  Sonos is a fantastic system, and I had no problem spending a pretty penny to purchase and set up the 6 zones and 2 Sonos controllers that I currently have in my house.  (I didn't even have a problem dishing out more cash to replace 4 devices that were fried in a recent lightening storm.)  However, since we have paid so much for the Sonos system, I firmly believe we have the right to request support from Sonos for useful and needed features.

If my wife and I want to listen to explicit songs that we enjoy after the kids go to bed, we shouldn't have to go update our library to include our explicit song folder and then remember to remove that folder from the library before the kids get up in the morning.  The simplicity of installing a parental control that can be toggled on and off in the user settings should be an easy software solution from Sonos, and it could be accompanied by a PIN password to either gain control of "explicit" tagged files or simply gain control of a library folder that is earmarked for those explicit music files.

Spotify exposes the APIs for Sonos to create the App.  I would be very surprised if the APIs did not provide access to explicit content information....and if they didn't, I would again think that it would be a bit of a no brainer for Spotify to be able to add that information.  My guess would be that Sonos doesn't want to invest the time/money into adding the filtering functionality within their app.
Actually, Sonos has it's own API for their Music Partners to code to, not the other way around.  

http://musicpartners.sonos.com/?q=node/21

Spotify is a bit of an exception, because it uses a different type of network, and the interface was a joint (and sometimes contentious) effort between the two parties.  In addition,  since the announcement of Spotify Connect, there seems to be less and less effort to update the Sonos app with new features (i.e. Spotify Radio).