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Add option to prefer explicit content

  • BigFKahuna
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  • AshtonB
  • Yoann CROUIN
  • FriedBanana

Deezer offers ways to hide and filter out explicit content, but I prefer to listen to music as the artist intended. Please add an option to be recommended explicit content and to hide the censored version of the album.

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Rudi
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  • Alien SuperStar
  • 14342 replies
  • May 22, 2019
Hi there @jeremiahlee

Thanks for the suggestion! I personally prefer originals too. I've voted for it and I hope other users do the same! 😉

  • Tiny Dancer
  • 4 replies
  • August 12, 2019
If I go to an artist's page and select discography if there are two versions of the same album (clean or explicit) only the censored version of an album appears

So far the only way for me to find the uncensored version is to do a search of the album, is there a setting that I can select that means I will be able to see the explicit version instead.

Please note that Do not recommend explicit content is disabled

Rudi
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  • Alien SuperStar
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  • August 19, 2019
Hi there @a.davis1037

Thank you for your input. At the moment you've got the right settings, unfortunately there isn't a filter for only explicit content. I've moved your comment here so that you can support this idea with the rest of us 👍🏼

  • Tiny Dancer
  • 1 reply
  • October 24, 2019

Как отключить цензуру 

 


Rudi
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  • Alien SuperStar
  • 14342 replies
  • October 27, 2019

Hi there @antdm sorry for my reply in English - Russian isn't supported in the community at the moment.

There isn't a way to 'prefer explicit content' yet but you can vote for this interesting suggestion above :wink:


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Good idea, voted for it.


  • Runaway Baby
  • 6 replies
  • January 2, 2020

Is there a way to simply choose if you would prefer explicit/clean songs? As I prefer explicit versions that haven't been altered but clean versions seem to be the first choice for playlists such as flow


Rudi
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  • Alien SuperStar
  • 14342 replies
  • January 6, 2020

Hi there @sachg 

Thanks for your input. At the moment you can only filter the explicit ones out, but I've moved your comment here so that you can support an existing idea :wink:


  • Tiny Dancer
  • 4 replies
  • June 16, 2020

As someone who mostly listens to Flow, I would love this feature.

It’s mildly annoying when a good song comes on and it isn’t the original. :)


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  • Lover
  • 6 replies
  • June 17, 2020

Yea. Cause it looks terrible when two versions of each album.

 


Rudi
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  • Alien SuperStar
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  • June 18, 2020

Hey @FiftyFour I agree, like duplicates, right? We're doing some work on our technology that actually detects explicit content so I assume that our teams already have something like this in mind :thumbsup_tone2: thank you for your input as well @Igor993 :v_tone2:


  • Tiny Dancer
  • 1 reply
  • September 11, 2020

Can you please make a switch or something som you kan switch from censored to uncensored music? Its som anoying when everything is censored... Maybe you cuold make a "kids mode" som kids can use this feauture, because its anoying to anyone else. I know you can still find the uncensptee, but i dont need censored Songs to an option IT just makes me mad when I acedentially listen to the blurred version…

 

 


jamie_mot
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  • Lover
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  • September 12, 2020

Yep have to agree. Biggest frustration for me is when you’re using Flow and it starts playing a clean version of a song instead of the original. Doubly annoying if I already have the original/explicit version in my favourites.


Rudi
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  • Alien SuperStar
  • 14342 replies
  • September 12, 2020

Hi there @jamie_mot @Jakobooo 

Thank you for your contribution to this topic. I'll be forwarding your comments to the relevant teams here at Deezer - don't forget to vote above if you haven't done so! :v_tone2:

Really cool idea with the button @Jakobooo :thumbsup_tone2:


  • Tiny Dancer
  • 1 reply
  • November 18, 2020

Please do this I'm 31  years old I only want to hear music as it was originally produced I get that you guys don't always get a explicit and clean version of songs but all I want is the explicit versions when I listen to flow. Otherwise song sound chopped to hell and it really just makes me want to unsubscribe…...


FriskyProdigy
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  • October 8, 2021

It’s been a little over 10 months now, can we have an update on this?

Where is Deezer on bringing this live?

I surely would expect that for every user that has not turned on “Don’t recommend explicit tracks” should always get the explicit versions of the tracks if available,  on all recommendations, mixes, flow, search results, etc not otherwise.


Yula
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  • June 20, 2022
The following idea has been merged into this idea:
https://en.deezercommunity.com/ideas/prioritize-xplicit-version-of-flow-67613
All the votes have been transferred into this idea.

Yula
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  • June 20, 2022
The following idea has been merged into this idea:
https://en.deezercommunity.com/ideas/add-more-global-filters-to-music-like-explicite-language-72103
All the votes have been transferred into this idea.

Yula
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  • June 20, 2022
The following idea has been merged into this idea:
https://en.deezercommunity.com/ideas/explicit-only-view-67703
All the votes have been transferred into this idea.

Yula
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The following idea has been merged into this idea:
https://en.deezercommunity.com/ideas/would-be-nice-if-we-had-an-option-to-exclude-edited-non-explicit-versions-of-songs-from-our-feedflow-72027
All the votes have been transferred into this idea.

  • Tiny Dancer
  • 1 reply
  • May 4, 2023

Thought I'd bump this thread again in case someone working there sees it

I take it they aren't planning on fixing this? I tried going through and using the "don't recommend this track" feature on hundreds of censored songs to try and get flow to choose the normal versions but it seems to just confuse the algorithm away from music I like


I love the service Deezer provides, and I love being able to get hi-fi audio and gladly pay the higher rates. However this issue has been infuriating as there has been no progress on fixing it in 3 years. To further compound the problem, google/Alexa/Siri don't pick an explicit song and asking them to play the explicit version just makes them start the same censored version all over again.

 

I love the service but I can't say that I would recommend Deezer to people who like explicit content. Furthermore every time it happens I get closer to unsubscribing. It's worn on me enough and it's not like it's a request that is extreme to implement given that the tagging and fetching algorithms already have a mechanism to AVOID what we are asking for. 


  • Tiny Dancer
  • 1 reply
  • October 7, 2023

I’m new to Deezer as google/youtube music was messing me about (liked songs disappearing).


This is honestly more annoying; I may well end up not paying for Deezer if it keeps playing clean versions. How such a simple problem hasn’t been dealt with despite being on the radar for years...


  • Tiny Dancer
  • 1 reply
  • July 23, 2024

It has been YEARS and still no update on this? 


WishItalyWasReal
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Actually created an account on the forums just to see if this exact thing was suggested already, as it’s something that’s bugged me for a while now. Lo and behold this thread has been up since 2019, and had a few other duplicates merged into it. Doesn’t bode well for the feature being implemented, but I may as well give my two cents anyway. Not a fan of duplicate discographies and stripped down tunes cropping up when the platform has the originals available for listening. If explicit music is enabled by the listener, I have to imagine the listener wants explicit versions of a song when it exists. If a song from the same band and album title has an explicit version, it would be so much nicer if it only showed and recommended the explicit version.


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