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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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djacque1
Visitor
2016-08-23 10:26 AM

Just do it, you silly sausage spotify nincompoops! How can you launch a family subscription when you don't give an option to block explicit content for children??? It's like hiding a load of rude magazines in a children's library and saying well I didn't make the rude magazines so it's not my fault! YOU have a RESPONSIBILITY to provide this feature in anything you market as a FAMILY service. The explicit flags are there... let us and our families control how we listen to the music we are paying for! Better to have something in place and then allow users to report any that have been missed - if that's what's causing the delay??? 

 

Very interesting btw that you can flag these posts as having 'inappropriate content'... bet that didn't take you 5 years to implement!

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bobbycrook1
Visitor
2016-08-23 11:49 AM
I've been away on holiday but been keeping an eye on this thread, can't
remember now who mentioned it but so eine bought up a very good point that
this forum is moderated for swearing! Ironic really
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innocuous_name
Regular
2016-08-23 06:19 PM

This is the most commented feature on the requests list, still on 'vote for it' status.  

The only legitimate reason I can consider is that Spotify knows their Explicit list is incomplete. (I've experienced this myself - song was not flagged as explicit, clearly was.)  To that end, this feature here:  https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/All-Platforms-Music-Ability-to-Mark-songs-as-explicit/id...

 

(edit: found correct link)

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drober30
Visitor
2016-08-23 06:49 PM
Spotify could include "mark as explicit button"so users could flag songs for Spotify to review in case some songs are not flagged properly.
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sc00terG
Casual Listener
2016-08-23 08:45 PM
Of course and it could be done automatically if a certain amount of users flagged it up. I can't believe we are still writing about this.
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geekymom2
Visitor
2016-08-25 06:18 PM

I love this option. When listening personally outside of work, anything is fine. But I work in a middle school, I can't have random explicit songs come up! So being able to do this would be great!! Even if they just add it for subscribers or whatever, make it one of the perks. 

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mkenyon2
Newbie
2016-08-25 08:50 PM

Even if they're not marked, the ones that are marked could be skipped.

Pandora has this, and there collection is growing. I'm thinking I might stay with them. Vote with your dollars.

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mkenyon2
Newbie
2016-08-25 08:54 PM

Why does this say 'Solved'? It's not solved...

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jasonm16
Regular
2016-08-25 09:15 PM

Spotify is quite careful in hiding their phone numbers to their U.S. HQ, which is located in NYC,45 W. 18th Street 7th Floor New York, NY 10011.  They must not want to hear from their customers.

 

In addition to messaging Seth Farbman, Spotify Head of Marketing, as mentioned above, it might be useful to reach out to the Business Insider writer that wrote this article:

http://www.businessinsider.com/take-a-tour-of-spotify-new-nyc-office-2014-7?op=1

 

Reporter Rebecca Borison (rborison@businessinsider.com)  had pretty good access and might want to do a followup article on why Spotify is ignoring 6000 users on this issue.

 

 

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johncats
Roadie
2016-08-26 01:46 AM
The tour of Spotify's new offices is illuminating. Are employees forced to listen to Spotify filth as terms of employment?
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