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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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darleysan
Visitor
2017-06-17 04:39 PM

It is crazy that Spotify have not developed this feature by this stage. Selling a family package without this feature is borderline irresponsible. Let's get this done Spotify. It would show you care about each and every one your customers, irrespective of their age ...

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voetcek0
Visitor
2017-06-17 05:07 PM

 Spotify, you still have not posted an update on being able to avoid explicit songs since 2016. C'mon, what is the delay in providing a solution that I can listen with my whole family without another 'F' word being dropped. This should be a top priority and the fact you continue kicking it down the road is frankly, inexcusable. Do something about profanity right now, some of us enjoy a clean/quality song without having to listen to an artist's feable attempt at expressing themselves with poorly executed, lazy lyrics!

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rbaumert
Casual Listener
2017-06-19 05:05 AM

Spotify.  Make parental controls happen!  You have a PR nightmare brewing here.  Not to mention a bunch of people leaving the platform...especially when another service comes out with this capability.

 

 Silence and not doing anything about it could sink Spotify.  Totally stupid!!

MildWolfie
Casual Listener
2017-06-19 11:13 PM

Adding my vote to this. My wife works in an environment which makes it difficult to use personal players, but easy to play over speakers. We use playlists, but managing a duplicate playlist with explicit songs exluded is cumbersome, especially when that playlist measures in the thousands of songs and is updated regularly. An explicit filter that can be toggled would easily solve this.

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sideshowtodd
Newbie
2017-06-20 01:45 AM

5+ years and it's still just a thought? ridiculous.

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Umloew
Newbie
2017-06-21 12:33 PM

I'd love to subscribe to Spotify, but due to the lack of an explicit lyric filter, have to stick with the Apple Music family subscription, I'm afraid.

Please fix this, there seems to be now technical or commercial reason why this might not be possible. If your competition can do it, so can you!

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KittyR
Visitor
2017-06-21 06:22 PM

Is this happening?

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rtbonini
Newbie
2017-06-21 06:24 PM 
No.
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Gramber
Newbie
2017-06-21 07:43 PM

Cancelled my Spotify Family Account a week ago for this very reason. I have a house full of teens/kids and Spotify played throughout our house. I also use Google Cast to play music on the house speakers in multiple rooms. Its amazing and fully automated...but Can't have explicit lyrics. 

 

Pandora has this filter, but no family plan. But has the ability to use Google Cast. 

 

Apple music has this filter and a family plan. But doesn't have the abilit to cast (Apple/Google don't get along). 

 

Google Play doesn't have this filter either. Any ideas????

 

 

 

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Bachg
Visitor
2017-06-21 08:17 PM

Please take care of this. My kids have learned words I wish they hadn't so young. We may need to cancel our subscription if there's no update. I don't understand how you can label songs for explicit lyrics but not be able to filter them out????