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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!

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youthleadergina
Visitor
2013-12-29 09:12 PM

Without combing through TONS of threads....did SPOTIFY ever create a way to disable explicit songs? I want to be able to listen to Spotify when my kids are around. My husband is a teacher and could use this feature too for using Spotify in his classroom. Update anyone? 

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jessepowers
Visitor
2013-12-30 10:49 PM

Just subscribed to the service, half because my little girls use Pandora and skip songs like crazy so I wanted them to be able to make their own playlists.  Was very disappointed when I made them a playlist and the first two songs were very explicit.  They hear the songs all the time on Pandora and they are the clean versions.  Couldn't believe there wasn't a way to block explicit content.  If this doesn't change soon, I will have to go back to Pandora.  Please add this feature!

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Darrell
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2013-12-31 04:17 PM

Please add this button. I am not sure what the impedement would be to adding this functionality. No one is censoring the songs. It is just saving everyone the time of creating individual playlists WITHOUT the explicit songs we do not wish to listen to!

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sdowns
Visitor
2014-01-02 09:33 PM

Why is this idea still "under consideration"? It was posted 2 YEARS AGO. As an avid music listener, I enjoy listening to uncensored content. However, as a parent of two small children, I'd like to have the choice to disable explicit content when I am listening in the presence of the kids. This seems like a simple fix. Please fix it.

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SlySie
Visitor
2014-01-03 09:21 AM

A new option in preferenced to filter out explicit content - perfect. 
This needs doing sooner rather than later.  I have a 8 year old that has just blasted out several songs with this.
I have since removed the app to stop it but come on - how hard is this?

 

Get a developer on it today - and a beta release will be ready by tomorrow!!!

It's a higher priority than the bad press it will give if it continues.

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sehochst
Visitor
2014-01-04 02:10 AM

Please add...  I'd like to subscribe, but I play music at home with kids around and would prefer to have the option to block explicit songs...  

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antilevitydrive
Visitor
2014-01-04 10:22 AM

I see this goes back to March 2012 and a number of other threads that point here.  I am not going to read 34 pages when what is clear is that a simple database filter function on an existing and already populated field of "explicit" would make a huge demographic happy, be a unique benefit/feature and no doubt win numerous subscriptions.  I for one find this a major limitation when it comes to using anything but manually created playlists.

 

The other day my wife and I witnessed a seemingly harmless and very promising station/songlist that had free to air radio songs our kids know and enjoy suddenly was dropping F-Bombs everywhere - and in company with another family and their kids.

 

I had just finished telling them how the playlist we were enjoying was being delivered and there was much talk about how these methods were redefining how and what we listen to by providing control as well as breadth and depth to what we like.  So the abrupt injection of some pretty objectionable content was a major talking point and I was indeed surprised to find that despite there being a flag for this there was no such filter when it should be simplicity itself to implement.

 

I certainly won't consider a subscription until this aspect is fixed with any of the services.  And it needs to be easy - not just "make your own list".

 

I understand I am pretty new to this type of service but not to technology/software and service delivery - frankly I'm surprised, not that its not been added, but that it's not been added after such a long time of being a reasonable request that is acknowledged by so so many reasonable people in the community and also by Spotify themselves...

W

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jolovesdancing
Visitor
2014-01-06 09:01 PM

PLEASE!!! I have a 6 year old - only certain songs I can play before she's in bed......

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heidejoy
Visitor
2014-01-09 07:22 PM

How about having two version of the same album, like iTunes -- one radio version, and one explicit version. 

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Philabrit
Visitor
2014-01-11 07:16 PM

How hard can this be?  If a song can be shown as "explicit" in the listing, then I'm struggling to believe that Spotify don't have the technical nouse to allow parents enable a setting to stop their kids hearing explicit lyrics.  Please sort this out.

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