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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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Daddyfool
Regular
2017-04-19 08:59 PM
Hi, I agree, please sign my petition to make this happen, and also share on
Facebook:


https://www.change.org/p/spotify-block-explicit-music-by-default-for-all-online-music-services?recru...

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Stuartayling
Visitor
2017-04-20 01:45 PM

Come on Spotify this should be easy to do as you already label explicit songs so having an option not to play them is an obvious next step! 

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Daddyfool
Regular
2017-04-20 01:48 PM
I agree please sign and share my petition. Let's make this happen 🙂

https://www.change.org/p/spotify-block-explicit-music-by-default-for-all-online-music-services?recru...
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frukyy
Casual Listener
2017-04-20 02:36 PM

That's the main reason that I am not subscribing to premium version!

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mamapeach80
Visitor
2017-04-20 03:59 PM

I agree - I would like to use Spotify for work but I don't wish to offend my clients with the explicit content. Pretty please team Spotify! 

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Sarahjane487
Visitor
2017-04-21 06:02 PM

This idea seems to be taking quite a long time to 'be considered' It's quite clear that there are many people who enjoy Spotify, I'm one of them, but do feel that some parental control would make it all the better. We have purchased Spotify premium and have it installed on a few of our devices, including my sons ipad. We are forever having to skip inappropriate songs, even when using genres that we think wouldn't contain songs with explicit lyrics. This button sounds like a really good idea.

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sjq
Visitor
2017-04-23 09:34 AM

Come on Spotify... people have been asking for this since 2013. About to ban my kids from Spotify...

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redol-ie
Newbie
2017-04-24 06:07 PM

Simple _ just realised having been a subscriber for a few months that you dont have this basic feature.  GIven I have two children using I am likely to cancel my subscription.

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mexican_tom
Visitor
2017-04-24 09:04 PM

Why is this basic service improvement taking so long? Truly appalling that we as parents have to manage the risk of very benign named playlists having foul lyrics embedded deep within them.  Pull your finger out Spotify!!

 

 

 

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bugsnoffer
Casual Listener
2017-04-26 10:56 AM

I cannot believe they still don't give this as an option , will be looking at google play at the weekend after several years subscribilng to spotify

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