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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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DadPayinTheBill
Visitor
2017-06-14 05:38 AM

I plan to drop my family subscription unless there is a way to stop explicit lyrics. I've heard too many F bombs coming from nowhere on spotify playlists. Kind of embarrassing in front of the wife and kids!!

Easy fix. Just do it!!

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AmandaP620
Visitor
2017-06-14 09:13 PM

This is the easiest fix that you could possibly make. Songs are already marked "Explicit" meaning they are already recognized by the program so the program already knows which songs to skip based on a simple if/then loop. This isn't a coding issue so why aren't you able to do this? I'm unclear as to why this isn't getting taken care of - this was posted 5 years ago...

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D5150r
Visitor
2017-06-15 12:49 AM

This is absolutely necessary. I was using Spotify to stream music for a company BBQ and couldn't use any of the playlists due to the explicit lyrics used. This is NOT a difficult modify and should be implemented immediately!

rbaumert
Casual Listener
2017-06-15 03:50 AM

And the filter explicit lyrics needs to be password protected so that teens can't turn off the filters. 

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rbaumert
Casual Listener
2017-06-15 03:59 AM

Spotify leadership and product management are a bunch of morons.  This feature has been requested for 5+ YEARS!   They offer a family membership to try and get more money but do NOTHING to make music family friendly.  

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tpswanger
Newbie
2017-06-15 07:12 PM

Dear Spotify, 

I have had a Premium  account for quite a while now and upgraded to family a year or so ago. Now can't find a easy to filter the songs my children listen to and am ready to discontinue the service of I dint have control. 

Any solutions yet? 

Thank you, 

Toby Swanger 

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bklinn
Newbie
2017-06-15 07:37 PM

I'm looking into other services and have started a Free Trial on Pandora and Amazon Music Unlimited.  

Pandora has a 'quazi' filter option that works on stations played but not otherwise.  I don't like Pandora that much though.

 

Amazon Music doesn't have a filter yet.  You say, "Alexa play some pop music" and you can get some F-bombs dropped pretty quickly.  "Thumbs down this song" works but not until after it has been playing.  Enough people are complaing about a Family Friendly company being not so freindly...  Amazon says they are working on it, unlike Spotify who won't listen at all.  I've found 'clean' versions on Amazon that I never knew exsisted when using Spotify. Looks like it's Amazon Music Unlimited for me. Even if they don't get the filter soon, I'm finding that I like it better.  

 

They just don't care about this folks.  They aren't going to fix and and they don't care.  After years of not listening to us...

bye bye Spotify.

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Quoctninh
Visitor
2017-06-15 08:15 PM

Need a profanity filter so I can play music at my store. I don't have time to hand pick un-explicit songs and put them in playlist. It's much easier if you can just add a profanity option where it mutes  the profanity in the song. 

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nchammer-2007
Newbie
2017-06-15 08:43 PM
Google play has an explicit song filter for radio stations. I'm trialling it in parallel with Spotify at the moment. I listen to similar playlists on both, but don't have anywhere near the same number of songs with profanities as Spotify (can't recall any in fact), they either have the clean versions of the songs taking precedence, or exercise some control over playlists near the top of the search results. I don't care either way, the end result meets my requirements.

The downside is not as much hardware support (yet) and will need to buy a Chromecast audio, but I'd rather do that than put up with having such a high proportion of songs with profanities.

Don't get me wrong, I really like the Spotify app and service, but this single issue is a deal breaker.
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nchammer-2007
Newbie
2017-06-15 08:43 PM
Google play has an explicit song filter for radio stations. I'm trialling it in parallel with Spotify at the moment. I listen to similar playlists on both, but don't have anywhere near the same number of songs with profanities as Spotify (can't recall any in fact), they either have the clean versions of the songs taking precedence, or exercise some control over playlists near the top of the search results. I don't care either way, the end result meets my requirements.

The downside is not as much hardware support (yet) and will need to buy a Chromecast audio, but I'd rather do that than put up with having such a high proportion of songs with profanities.

Don't get me wrong, I really like the Spotify app and service, but this single issue is a deal breaker.
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