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jmschles
Contributor I
December 4, 2019
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Explicit songs from Spotify blocked.

I recently set up a Sonos system, and Spotify is the only service I’ve connected. I want to be able to play songs marked as “explicit” through Sonos, but they’re grayed out.

It seems like this has to either be a Spotify thing or a Sonos thing, but…

  • I’ve never filtered explicit content in Spotify, but I checked my Spotify settings just in case, and “Allow explicit content” is indeed enabled
  • I found “Content Filters” in the Sonos settings, but “Filter Explicit Content” is grayed out and says “Not supported”

Any idea what might be going on? I haven’t found an answer on the forums yet. Thanks!

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    Answer
    February 11, 2020

    @jmschles Sorry for the slow response to your Sonos Community question. I understand that you want to play explicit content from your Spotify music service on Sonos. Please follow the steps in this link for confirming your parental controls with Sonos. You describe the option as being grayed out.  Is your Spotify account a premium or free account? Also, as per the provided link above, have you confirmed that your Spotify account does not have its own parental control filters that need to be updated? Lastly, please use this link to remove the Spotify account and re-add the service to Sonos and let us know of the testing results. We will also want to see an updated diagnostic report so please use this link for submitting the report and reply with that report number as well.

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    Oktay_Kemal
    Lyricist I
    July 5, 2022

    Did you know that if you go to the album of the explicit tagged song and select the same song you can play it?

     

    Just select more from the menu above the explicit song you’ve searched and select album info. You can play it from there. I know its not a solution but at least you can listen these songs until Sonos developers fix this BUG 🙂

    Oktay_Kemal
    Lyricist I
    July 5, 2022

    Also pls make sure you have enabled Explicit songs from the Spotify app on your iOS or Android spotify App. Make sure it is the same account as the one you are using on your Sonos app. Try removing the spotify account from sonos, reboot your sonos bridge and add the spotify account again. Hope it helps …

    Benclo
    Lyricist I
    February 1, 2023

    Did you know that if you go to the album of the explicit tagged song and select the same song you can play it?

     

    Just select more from the menu above the explicit song you’ve searched and select album info. You can play it from there. I know its not a solution but at least you can listen these songs until Sonos developers fix this BUG 🙂

    No luck for me with this - still doesn’t work. 
     

    does anyone know if there’s another thread for this? 

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