[All Platforms] Explicit Filter

[sekuether21]

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.

[alephnaut]

Yeah. I'd use text processing if song text is available, possibly on its own or as one of the inputs. The output would be the probability that the segment needs to be suppressed. Above some threshold and poof, mute it.

Iteration 2 offers artists different clean up options. Scratches, instead of silence, that match the bpm for a fee. Heck, reason can figure out which sample frames correspond to which beats. So this thing really could be patched together I think...

[alephnaut]

Go to IBM and offe4r them a chance to showcase Watson. Then you get them to build it. Instead of beating us in jeopardy the machines will be helping us keep listening to Spotify by cleaning up explicit lyrics.

[Pauliking]

Load of rubbish about the artist not getting paid. It's false income for that artist if the music is forced upon us. Isn't payment for entertainment? Well I nor my family hardly find crude statements about niggers or rape or **bleep** entertaining! The artist does not get paid unless 30 seconds has played of that song and even then the payment is in the micro cents for each play. I'm not racist and I don't like disgusting songs regardless of whether I have kids or not.

[1191450205]

Come on Spotify, it's been 5 years since this was raised - what kind of response time is that?  If the artists don't want to miss out on royalties they can stop using the language in their songs - no-one is asking them to do it.

[RickyAngel]

This feature is an absolute must have and surely could be coded in 10 minutes.  IF Explict_Flag=Yes THEN Skip_Track.  Or if you want to keep the artist happy IF Explict_Flag=Yes THEN Play_Clean_Version. 

[DrEI-R]

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@sekuether21 wrote:

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.

First of all , I have found HUNDREDS of songs in just a few months that are mistakenly marked EXPLICIT and they will never be fixed.  Plus half their songs are explicit.  I think I'm going back to YouTube.  Since when is PATSY MOORE - Lies Explicit--she is a christian artist.

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[tombiel1967]

 Agreed.  With an "explicit filter" mode I could play while driving carpool, thereby exposing everyone in the car to the benefits of Spotify.  Without such a mode, I cannot play Spotify because it just exposes kids to unexpected F*** this and F*** that.  😞

[Kidloom]

This sounds appropiate and useful. We also read posts that suggested to apply this in advertisings aswell. 

[Bmozisek]

They won't do it

[Mere_heureuse]

Is there another Music service that allows filtering?