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[All Platforms] Explicit Filter

Submitted by on ‎2012-02-18 04:32 PM
Status: implemented

Add 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.

Updated on 2018-12-06

Hey folks!

It's great to hear music as the artist intended it to be heard, this means Spotify can sometimes include explicit content.
 
We recommend looking out for the EXPLICIT tag on any releases (E on the web player).
Note: Our explicit content tags are applied based on information we receive from rights-holders. This means we can’t guarantee all explicit content is marked as such. 

It's also now possible to use the Explicit content filter on mobile and tablet devices (more devices coming soon!). Right now, the setting is only for the individual account and device. If you do apply the setting on your phone, it doesn't filter explicit content for the same account on the desktop app. It also doesn’t apply if you use Spotify Connect to play to another device. For more information on this, check out this support article.

We'll keep you up-to-date if there's anything else to share!

Thanks
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siffring
Visitor
2015-07-02 03:59 AM

In case anyone is wondering, here is how to get a music experiance like spotify with an explicit filter. 

 

Apple music is the same price as Spotify, but now you can filter out explicit music. Seems to have a deep enough library to keep me content. 

https://www.apple.com/music/

 

How to filter Explicit music on iTunes (PC or Mac)

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201659

 

How to filter explicit music on iOS devices

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201304

 

And there you go, everything you need to know to switch from spotify and get explicit filtering. 

 

Enjoy!

 

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Cygn3ts
Visitor
2015-07-02 10:44 PM

This is a must feature, as a premium subsrciber who only uses Spotifty to stream music throughout the house on Sonos speakers I would like to see this feature added.  It would give me the option to play more playlists whilst my young children are around rather than have to vet lists for songs with explicit content and thus narrow the types and genres of music that can be played.  When you devleop this function can you please add it to the Spotify in Sonos user options. So when do we get it?

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zotje
Casual Listener
2015-07-02 11:54 PM
@Cygn3ts...this post has almost 3000 kudos and has been out there for more than 3 years. Maybe with Apple music, pandora and google music all providing this functionality, Spotify might feel some pressure to provide this...but...Let's just say I wouldn't hold my breath.
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askates
Visitor
2015-07-05 04:40 PM
I'm NOT using this service again until I can get Premium package that ALLOWS a PAYING USER TO CHOOSE whether they want to hear songs tagged as explicit. This request exists and has been backed by thumbs up thousands of times for 4+ years. So, I figure another post must be what's desired. You could have had a paying customer months ago if you provided this feature. Please remember that enabling users to choose music they want to hear is supposed to be your selling point. In no way, does what we all want = censorship (see Q&A) and using it as an excuse to not to develop a feature based on a tag you've already got defined in your data set is patronizing to your customers. Why wouldn't you want to increase sales? Maybe the competition has to come before you'll do anything. Shouldn't be long and I'll wait.
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user-removed
Not applicable
2015-07-06 03:36 PM

So we got all of our playlists and music moved over to Apple Music and my 4 family accounts were cancelled this morning. It was fun being ignored with all of you. We fought the good fight but they hold all of the cards. I hope those of you who hang on finally get what you want but it may be too little too late for Spotify.

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user-removed
Not applicable
2015-07-06 03:52 PM

@user-removed how did you move your playlists? I haven't found a tool that works.

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Flyingiphone
Visitor
2015-07-07 03:52 PM

I agree with the other 98 pages of members asking for a button or the option in setting to filter the explicit lyrics on spotify. 

 

I have been listening to the music this morning. With one song continuing with the lyrics **bleep** YOU, **bleep** YOU, **bleep** YOU.. If this is unacceptable to put in a post why is it fine to stream into a house with children or a car. 

 

This post I see has been running since 2012. 

 

APPLE MUSIC has this function. Also has a 3 month free trial. 

 

Come on spotify you have loads waiting for this function. But many may look at leaving 

 

You have gone to the effort to show under the title when a song has explicit lyrics. 

 

 

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Flyingiphone
Visitor
2015-07-07 03:54 PM

I just posted and you have "beep" the written text. 

 

Why is a post more important when it comes to censorship. 

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synth3tk
Casual Listener
2015-07-07 04:50 PM

Another no-brainer feature that's apparently too complicated for the Spotify devs.

 

Guess I'll leave another "I'm disappointed with your service" post here.

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BC1973
Casual Listener
2015-07-08 12:47 PM

This should be there already. If they can label the tracks as explicit then surely they can figure a way to filter them. We can already 'hide' unplayable tracks. I appreciate it's not the same thing but this company is big enough and powerful enough to create these systems and get them in place. My children use Spotify more and more but recently I have been steering them towards Apple Music as that is a simpler beast to control.

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