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Ideas: Option to create accounts for children with parental controls

Ideas: Option to create accounts for children with parental controls

gatorhouse15
Underground
Status: Open Ideas

So are we avoiding the responsibility of this or am I just missing the posts...

So we are clear I can't create a minor's account under my account without changing everything for myself.  It appears to be all or none.

So is the only way (which is hardly protected or age appropriate) that would require Pandora to do more than just blast music by artist but garner the ratings overall and classify the account according to that?

If there is a way please share.  I need it as there IS music that is not trash out there. 

 

Moderator Edit: Changed title for clarity

 

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DivBy0
Local Performer

OK, listen, this just has to happen.

You can keep your 13+ or whatever requirement for creating regular accounts. But allow the primary ”Family” Plan account holder to create child accounts from =within= their profile, and allow them to manage what each of the child accounts can listen to. In my case, I would restrict my granddaughter to the various KIDZ Bob and similar stations, and adjust as they get older. This is not some radical idea, Spotify, many social media and other family plans have done this for years (incl. Apple and Microsoft). 

Dave808
Local Performer

So... is Pandora's position on this to just give the middle finger to families?  This request has been up for 5 years.  Pandora offers a "Premium Family" plan but excludes families with children.  I've been listening to Pandora since 2007 and became a premium subscriber when you rolled out your Military plans, I just upgraded to the Family plan so that the rest of the household could listen, only to learn that family plans are not for "families" in the traditional sense.  Whiskey? Tango? Foxtrot?

RELL
Local Performer

I will be changing to another service unless we are able to do this.  The whole reason we used the family plan was for my younger children.

mpbhammer
Local Performer

I understand that as a subscription service and a business Pandora is free to target whatever audience they want, and if they don’t care to appeal to responsible parents as a business model that is their prerogative.   That said, if truly open to suggestions from long time paying customers (I started listening during the Music Genome Project, when I was just a punk kid myself) then I add my vote to those calling for some true content filters for kid friendly accounts on here.   Again, you don’t have to care, I get it.   I don’t have to keep paying, I get it.   But if you are really listening, this is a great idea that would make me much more excited to use your service with my family and recommend you to my friends.   I’m in a free trial period on Spotify and will have to see if their kid options are any better than this.