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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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Brubning
Visitor
2017-01-26 09:37 AM

So, I just realised I'm subscribed to "Spotify for Family". Marketing this as a Family subscription seems wrong when N, F and C words pop up in songs when you least expect them to.

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Kneptune
Newbie
2017-01-26 10:18 AM

My nine year old son, who loves Eminem, this morning ask me if MTV was a gun!

PLEASE Spotify do something to stop a generation of children from being corrupted!

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Ps7cho
Visitor
2017-01-26 09:44 PM

This is the dumb **bleep** I am talking about, stupid mother **bleep**ers like you **bleep** hats who dont know your Dicks from your head who dont make a filter for your product filter me on a website? What kind of hypocrites do you think you are?

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johncats
Roadie
2017-01-26 11:35 PM

 Ps7cho - well put. Spotify are so much into censorship that I'm surprised you managed to squeeze a **bleep** in there. Come on Spotify you must try harder to protect us from foul language on the forum

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johncats
Roadie
2017-01-26 11:37 PM

Apparently Dicks is OK but d-ick is not. 

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soundpro
Visitor
2017-01-27 12:19 AM

One of the best things about Spotify, for me, is the ability to browse new releases. however, I can do without explicit language. I would love to have a Preference I could set, in order to automatically get the cleaned-up version of the song, or to skip it altogether. There are plenty of artists who can "'keep it real" without having to use explicit language. Please add this feature. Thanks.

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Twam1x
Visitor
2017-01-27 12:19 PM

Why would they not do this. Seems crazy. Really are alienating good part of your audience.

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PapaMaan
Visitor
2017-01-27 02:43 PM

Just to be clear. I have now canceled my family subscription. From now on its Apple Music family plan. It s.cks as I have to give up my Microsoft Lumia 950 that I'm so in love with (yes, really :). But it is for the safety of my kids so i just s.ck it up. 

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brazilian_joe
Casual Listener
2017-01-27 06:41 PM

Also necessary to be able to control playback on family subscriptions.

Account owner should be able to force-restrict this per-user in the account, or let at the listener's discretion.

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Ps7cho
Visitor
2017-01-27 06:54 PM

Check this out c rap is censored **bleep**

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