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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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Casual Listener
2013-11-19 04:15 PM

I don't think Spotify will ever disable explicit content.  Maybe that is some feature PANDORA or someone else has patented, and Spotify does not want to fork over money for licensing - just a guess.

 

It would literally take only a few hours of programming to accomplish this.  The fact that it has not been done, and that this has been "under construnction" since 2/18/12 is proof enough that it will not be done.

 

Spotify, prove me wrong and get on the ball with this!

 

Or, someone please write an app or plugin to accomplish this since Spotify is not going to get around to it any time soon.

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darrelld
Visitor
2013-11-20 09:03 PM

Just make it an option.

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rob_jordan
Visitor
2013-11-22 05:50 AM
Thinking of canceling my premium membership since this simple option is not available.
Daniel
Community Legend
2013-12-02 12:46 PM

I just want to add my thumbs up for this. Its one feature I absolutely love for 'Google Play Music - All Access' It enables you to set to whether you want explicit tracks to be played. This then will either skip any track with explicit lyrics, or if available will play the 'clean' version.

 

 

I use Spotify to play music when my daughter is in the car... I'd much prefer to be able to put a playlist on and not have to worry about the odd expletive coming out.

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abbygayle
Visitor
2013-12-03 04:26 AM

Please add this feature.  It would be much appreciated!

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FrankFurter
Roadie
2013-12-03 05:19 AM

Nearly two years and no progress. I can attest that in my household, this is keeping me from buying two more $10 accounts. Of course, they can't even figure out how to get a built-in EQ created....

 

Come to think about it, seems like Spotify insists on releasing updates about every other week, but I never see any new or different features. Just what is the dev team doing anyway, besides obsessing over Facebook and social features that are pretty much irrelevant?

 

Spotify is turning into the Tivo of streaming music players....

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SteelSpectre
Casual Listener
2013-12-04 02:43 PM

To parents who don't want their children to hear the f-word: stop listening to sh*tty music. The topic of the song and the aggressiveness of its style are FAR more important than a few 'bad words'.

 

I would like an option to hide the [explicit] tag altogether. It clutters my screen.

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Daniel
Community Legend
2013-12-05 10:19 AM

Whilst I agree with you that in general the song that have expletives in are of a genre I myself tend to avoid. I have subscribed playlists such as the "Top Tracks in the United Kingdom". This is a Spotify managed playlist of the most played and is similar to listening to the charts. It's nice to put this on as my wife prefers modern pop music and my daughter will happily listen to it... However there are tracks in the top which have expletives and on a radio a clean version would be played... however this is not available in Spotify.

 

Maybe this could actually work out for both of us. If the option was to be able to play explicit lyric tracks or to play the clean version were made available then that [explicit] tag could potentially be removed altogether as you have already made the decision to listen to explicit tracks or not.

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Scriven_j
Roadie
2013-12-05 02:22 PM

This is a great idea and if you think so, you should also support this idea:-

 

http://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-Ideas/Allow-users-to-alert-Spotify-to-EXPLICIT-lyrics/idc-p/...

 

There are a number of songs NOT tagged as explicit that should be and mobilising the community to tag them would be a helpful way of weeding these out (for those that WANT to!).

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Rollo_
Roadie
2013-12-05 04:01 PM

First off, I'm 100% in favor of this idea/option.

 

But if you don't want explicit content, why are you even playing it? Why not remove it from your playlists? And while you're at it, remove it from your life entirely. In the Desktop forum, I suggested the option be extended to ANY content you'd like.

 

What about lyrics that objectify women or denigrates a minority? The so-called "song of the summer 2013" certainly falls under the former. [No, wait, it really doesn't, RIIIIIGGGHHHHHT]

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