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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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jacobsato
Visitor
2017-02-09 02:15 PM

You need to understand, this is not a technical issue but rather a decision that Spotify has made to not offer this feature. Many people think it is a technical issue. This is to inform you that you can uninstall Spotify and move to Google Play. or iTunes. Both services offer more music, free, less commercials and has option to remove explicit music. I’ll check back with Spotify in a few years to see if any improvements have been made. But why sweat the small stuff. Just go to Google Play or iTunes or find a favorite station on iHeart. The choices are endless.

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jacobsato
Visitor
2017-02-09 02:18 PM

You need to understand, this is not a technical issue but rather a decision that Spotify has made to not offer this feature. Many people think it is a technical issue. This is to inform you that you can uninstall Spotify and move to Google Play. or iTunes. Both services offer more music, free, less commercials and has option to remove explicit music. I’ll check back with Spotify in a few years to see if any improvements have been made. But why sweat the small stuff. Just go to Google Play or iTunes or find a favorite station on iHeart. The choices are endless.

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bigcheese
Visitor
2017-02-09 10:20 PM

Going to drop this service if change is not made!

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sstrat
Newbie
2017-02-10 01:25 AM
"Beep, Beep, Beep, Beep"

That’s the sound of the moving truck backing in. Will be at Apple Music
soon.

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johncats
Roadie
2017-02-10 02:48 AM

Sweden was the first country to make it illegal to smack a child. Now through Spotify they are the first to make child exposure to pornography mandatory.

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888margo888
Gig Goer
2017-02-10 10:31 PM
Your comment made me laugh or at least smile bigly. This is not as in NOT
a U.S. company. Read the "About" section to see the real story. The United
(not so much) States of America are one out of 196 countries in the
world.Not everything or everyone has a stamp saying "Made in the U.S."
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jacobsato
Visitor
2017-02-10 11:09 PM

Just uninstall Spotify and move on with your life

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karagoodfellow
Newbie
2017-02-11 05:37 PM

please, please implement this!

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theorangeclock
Newbie
2017-02-11 07:46 PM

I feel like this is more of a licensing issue more than anything. Some artists chose to not make censored versions of their songs (I'm talking about big artists like Kanye West and Radiohead, or some more independent artists that can't afford to make censored versions of their albums).

Already that Spotify is heavily criticized for the amount of money they distribute to artists, doing this could simply be seen as another way of Spotify cutting artists' & record companies' cash flow. Alternatively it can also be a licensing issue with record companies that are against Spotify doing this for this exact reason.

 

and lol at the amount of soccer parents sheltering their kids from real life

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Tim-w
Visitor
2017-02-12 02:23 AM

We are just out. Young kids and can't keep waiting 

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