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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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user-removed
Not applicable
2017-10-15 02:43 AM

I just took out a trial, to see if Spotify would do for my family (with young kids). This was the first feature I looked for. Then I found this 😞

 

come on folks. Apple Music had this on day 1. I only cancelled that because my 2 year telco provided sub ran out.

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Philip030
Newbie
2017-10-15 03:02 PM

It does not have to be a physical button. One could just tell Alexa not to play explicit songs.

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Shannyapple
Visitor
2017-10-16 03:15 PM

Please add this feature. I would love to listen to ‘my’ music in the presence of my kids. 

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Gdev3
Casual Listener
2017-10-17 12:22 AM

Might it be an idea to offer the UK top 50 as radio edits only. 

My kids like to listen to the new songs they hear on the radio at home, but this also includes all the explicit versions of the songs. I am not a killjoy and know some great songs have some explicit content. But it is a play list that my kids aged 10 and 5 want to listen to and the explicit content makes this almost impossible. 

Leaving us to have to search for individual songs or the latest now albums. 

 

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Fredrik8
Visitor
2017-10-17 05:58 AM

At least make it available to paying customers. It could even drive more revenue for you!

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edandme
Visitor
2017-10-17 05:18 PM

So its been over a year and nothing on this? There is no way this is a hard thing to implement. The most I can think that is that you have to update something in your agreements with artists. If you didn't retain the rights to choose what plays on shuffle that was a really poor choice. Even if it blocked any from coming through on shuffle but still allowed intentionally playing a song. Finally, I think this is the thing that would get me to pay for spotify. I have resisted paying for a premium account but for this kind of power I would pay. I'm sure I'm not the only one. If we are going to pay for music I really think we need to feel like spotify is catering to our tastes. Normally not a problem for spotify...

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Shannyapple
Visitor
2017-10-17 09:16 PM
I did search and a few people have made kid friendly hip hop playlists and
r&b playlists.... for now that is what I am playing when my kids are
around. Not the ideal solution and at the very least these playlists should
come up when you search for kids music as I had to search for them
independently...but they will patch us for a while.

This said, I would like to give my kids access to the account on their own
and parental controls over those songs already clearly tagged by spotify as
explicit would be great!
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ramerritt
Newbie
2017-10-17 10:56 PM

So have you figured this out yet? It doesn't not take that long to create the backend to offer a on/off switch to filter explicit music....

I'm ready to close my account because I nearly have to be sitting next to my laptop, iphone, ipad, etc.. in order to change the song fast and I would like to just plug in my device and play without the worries of hearing the "F" word every 5 seconds...

desreg2913
Visitor
2017-10-19 09:00 AM

whats so hard to adding that?

Im above 18 but I don't like to listen song with so many fxxk wording and sing a bout drugs/**bleep** etc.

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TimWolff
Casual Listener
2017-10-19 05:27 PM

Seems like a pretty simply idea and super helpful.  I like it but I wonder how it's still not happened after 5 years...

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