topic Remove Censored Songs in Content Questions

Remove Censored Songs

user-removed — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 23:50:24 GMT

I add music to Spotify and then when I am enjoying the music it cuts out where words like "pot" or "Compton" are supposed to be. How can I disable this and only listen to uncensored songs?

Re: Remove Censored Songs

licenced — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 19:25:57 GMT

It's up to the publisher/rights-holder which version(s) they submit. Sometimes they will submit both so you just need to select the right one for your playlist. If they have only submitted the clean version then there's no other choice.

Re: Remove Censored Songs

NoFacebookHere — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 00:10:57 GMT

Yes but it's very hard to determine espcially when ever album could possibly have both versions and its not clearly indicated. The butchered version should be default be hidden (there could be a setting for this, since some people might have reasons to prefer the butchered version.)

Re: Remove Censored Songs

MattSuda — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 05:58:13 GMT

Directly from Spotify

"Spotify does not censor music in any way. We simply make the music available in whatever form it was given to us.

Albums are often released in two versions: the "explicit" and the "clean" version. Usually, both versions are available on Spotify. However, as both versions are seen as identical, they will be grouped when shown in the artist view page. Only one of these albums will be immediately visible. The other album can reached by clicking the button that displays duplicates, a small arrow to the far right-hand side next to the album title."

Re: Remove Censored Songs

Nigel — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 15:05:33 GMT

How do I display duplicate albums within the Spotify iPhone app?

Re: Remove Censored Songs

simonktng — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 12:48:51 GMT

Nobody wants to hear censored songs. A simple toggle in settings to hide censored songs would be ideal. This is a feature request. Thanks

Re: Remove Censored Songs

meahtenoha — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 15:11:11 GMT

Hi simonktng - The best place to give feedback/ feature requests is our Ideas Board.

There's a similar idea to this here: Explicit Only/Edited Only Option It's worth adding your Kudos if you haven't already.

Re: Remove Censored Songs

toler1305 — Wed, 13 Aug 2014 02:03:45 GMT

For certain songs they have different titles, such as "Lily Allen: **bleep** you" and "Lily Allen: F**k you".

Re: Remove Censored Songs

chrishough — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 20:39:40 GMT

I agree, there should be a way to BLOCK censored tracks.

Re: Remove Censored Songs

genace — Thu, 11 Jun 2015 18:16:06 GMT

Career of Evil -- Blue Öytster Cult -- alters lyric "I'd like to do it to your daughter on a dirt road". Since the world does not comprise strictly 5 year olds, I find this meek. We have devolved.

Censorship, not the outrageous, should be the outrage.

Re: Remove Censored Songs

robbyn1987 — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 06:16:30 GMT

2016 still waiting for a button to remove censored versions

Re: Remove Censored Songs

2big2fail — Tue, 13 Sep 2016 11:47:32 GMT

bump

Re: Remove Censored Songs

genace — Tue, 13 Sep 2016 14:24:00 GMT

What purpose would this serve but to impose app clutter to accomodate your Victorian values? If you think you're protecting your kids, you're not. Get over it.

Re: Remove Censored Songs

user-removed — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 17:36:02 GMT

@genace

Hello:

Maybe it is just me, but I went to an official lyric service, a service that pays copyright royalties to the writer of lyrics in songs, which seems to indicate for this song that Pattie Smith wrote the lyrics to this song originally.

I went to the Genius service and here below is the Link to the page, might as well allow the service to get the click through, so the original writer can get the royalty click rate provided by the service: http://genius.com/Blue-oyster-cult-career-of-evil-lyrics

If you have a more official correct lyrical content for this song, you might consider submitting the lyrics source for this song so it can be updated at the Genius service?

As that aside, as has been posted in this thread originally, content is provided as is to the Spotify service by the content providers. Labels will make the effort to provide censored and explicit album releases to the service where available. Sometimes this happens correctly sometimes it does not, and even results in explicit songs not being tagged correctly, which well needs to be corrected anyway for the Spotify users who wish to avoid the explicit songs in environments a song like that might not be appreciated i.e. school, work, playing music around children when one wishes to avoid something kind of nasty in a song around them with.

It is just common decency, having explicit music tagged properly is necessary for those in an environment, when playing rude and offensive music might cause public problems for them.

Re: Remove Censored Songs

genace — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 14:08:42 GMT

Inhibiting rude and offensive music causes a problem for us all.

Re: Remove Censored Songs

boshk — Fri, 19 Apr 2019 14:05:35 GMT

i hate censored music. HOWEVER i do wish there was 'ninja' free versions of music... i mean JFC, if the n-word is so offensive, maybe dont put it in your music every other word?

Re: Remove Censored Songs

fordianslip — Wed, 17 Jun 2020 20:18:37 GMT

No movement in 8 years? Jeez.

Re: Remove Censored Songs

Tkeleth — Sun, 12 Jul 2020 05:32:26 GMT

I've been looking for this feature in any kind of music player, ever. We *really* need legislation passed to put a big sticker on the front of any music that contains butchered audio, just like the "explicit content" warning.

I'm much more concerned about artists being prohibited from sharing art, than hearing a word spoken aloud.

Re: Remove Censored Songs

mtcrowley-us — Sun, 29 May 2022 16:36:37 GMT

Checking back here. Can Spotify at least comment as to their interest in this feature? Censorship ruins art.

Re: Remove Censored Songs

chrisischillin — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 20:33:59 GMT

2023 Bump. Still BS, give us an option to block censored music.