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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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jflateboe
Visitor
2016-06-03 10:20 PM

This is an absolute neccessity.  I am considering cancelling my membership unless I can filter our explicit lyrics.  Personally I'm fine with explicit lyrics when listening by myself, but we use your service frequently around the house and it's a dealbreaker for the kids.

 

Also, as other users have mentioned, it's not just for kids.  Some adults have a preference one way or another.  

 

Just do it... it's already tagged in the data.  Just give us a toggle switch in Settings. How hard is that?

 

Why even bother displaying "Explicit" in the UI if I don't have an option for removing or turning them off?  Am I expected to sit by the computer and eyeball every song on a playlist so I can skip it before it plays?! 

 

Thanks for hearing me out... Please, please, please

 

Jason F.

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888margo888
Gig Goer
2016-06-04 08:08 PM

4,960 Kudos with ZERO response from the developers or Board of Directors. Pitifull. It has all been said so many times in so many ways. The only thing not suggested is a class action suit. Maye it could be done for exposing children to explicit lyrics on the family plan. How can you have a family plan with no way to block out songs about (unprintable)? Just a thought.

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icelanamcgowan
Visitor
2016-06-04 10:01 PM

Will be cancelling my PREMIUM FAMILY ACCOUNT and moving to Apple Music in 30 days if this doesn't appear.

 

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cehoagland
Newbie
2016-06-04 11:29 PM

Nobody's saying you can't listen to explicit music.  Just give a person the option to turn it off when the kids are around. 

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gurbindar
Visitor
2016-06-05 04:55 PM

It would even be great if when you click the explicit button, CLEAN versions of the song are played instead. 

 

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McWardy
Visitor
2016-06-06 04:45 PM

Explicit lyrics are an increasingly big problem in our house. We want to protect our children and Spotify is making it almost impossible to use playlists as so much is now explicit.

 

Looking a this thread the issue has been around since 2012 and no action taken. Many ideas seem to centre around skipping explicit tracks but perhaps another way is simply through settings. As most tracks have radio edits why can't you set up in settings whether you want your music in explicit versions or radio edits. Depending on the setting all content is then streamed according to your taste. If no radio edit of a specific track exists then it would be skipped.

 

Can't see why this would be difficult to implement?

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Bmozisek
Casual Listener
2016-06-06 04:52 PM
It is not difficult. which means Spotify is just giving us the middle
finger and telling us to go **bleep** off.

Leave Spotify, use Pandora, Google music, or Apple Music. Don't give them
a deadline. Just do it and leave a bad review for the app.

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sjp47
Casual Listener
2016-06-06 05:02 PM

 

Hang on a minute.   This idea has been suggested hundreds of times since at least 2012 - my own variation on this theme was just closed as a duplicate and redirected here - why is it still, 4 years on, just listed as a good idea and "we'll keep you posted".

 

This should be a basic feature of a service that can be overheard by other people - it's just common courtesy.  I have no problem with explicit lyrics but there are plenty of times when they aren't appropriate - at work, with children, etc -  and the option to avoid them should be a simple switch in the interface.  

 

Get on with it!

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sallbee
Visitor
2016-06-06 05:18 PM

I think Customer Support was just doing the same thing we all did -- searching Help for "explicit lyrics" -- and parroting it back. Yeah, they're missing the point. Nolbody is saying to censor music (which is imlicitly "top down") -- just give the power to the people to make it easier for individuals to choose what to listen to when.

 

As has been noted throughout the prior 181 pages and thousands of posts, the metadata is there. Simply switching it on/off could be implemented in the client application pretty easily. Replacing with edited versions if available would be a bit more complicated, but crawl-walk-run would be just fine here.

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DerekLenko
Visitor
2016-06-06 06:16 PM

Yes, please add this, and in conjunction w/ the new Family accout give parents a way to set "no explicit content" in the linked kids' accounts!

 

Thank you Spotify for listening to the thousands of your users who want this feature! 🙂

 

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