A symbol or a red bar that says “explicit” next to songs with explicit lyrics as an opt-in option when creating a music library would be amazing, and I think fairly simple? Even have the user input which words are explicit, because in my experience it is only one or two words I would like to keep out of my Plex Mixes, that could turn into playlists.
I usually see this suggested in the context of keeping users out of that content, but that isn’t my intention here (because as I understand there are solutions to that, if you are willing to label your music).
I have a Tidal Hi-Fi extension in Plex, but can’t enjoy exploring all of the new tracks without the risk of my children hearing every new ■■■ act or profanity. Please get explicit content either marked, or allow a filter. Movies have ratings that let us have some expectation about the content. I’m not saying we need to change the content, I just hate being ambushed by it. (Tidal competitors have this feature.)
Without looking into it, I imagine that the songs would have metadata including if they were explicit or not without having to filter through the lyrics.
Would be less overhead software-wise if that’s the case - especially if you have a clean version of a track, you wouldn’t want it to be labeled as explicit purely because Plex found the lyrics of the track by name (not knowing it was the clean version)
I’ve noticed that MP3 tagging software has a tag field for explicit content, but the online databases don’t have any data for this field.
This means, we’d have to manually tag each track if it is explicit, and then ideally submit that tag info to online tag databases. That alone sounds like an arduous situation, not just for use tagging our music, but for someone somewhere else that would have to moderate the data submitted to the database.
I think the most flexible option is an end user defined list of explicit words, ran against lyrics in a song. This might be a bad choice performance wise though.
What about a combination of the two? A scan that runs once on a user’s entire collection and tags the explicit tag if it matches with the explicit word list, and then that scan only has to be ran against new music as it is added to the Plex library.
I really don’t know why this explicit filter feature hasn’t been implemented. It’s common in most music streaming apps for years.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but having something marked “explicit” on other music services doesn’t only apply to words. Doesn’t it also apply to topics? For example, lyrics which don’t use any cuss words, but talk very explicitly about sexual content. I second this idea for having Plex identify the songs automatically, but see a need for manual intervention to either add or remove a song at the users discretion.
In my ideal world, this filter could be applied on the fly. So I can create one playlist and when it comes time to play, choose between “Play All” and “Play Without Explicit Songs”.
I agree. What explicit to one person, is not explicit to another. I guess explicit tag data has to either be stored in the PMS database, or the local MP3 file tag, and maybe an option available to use some online database for a general decision on what tracks are explicit and what aren’t?
Given this only has 22 votes, I’m not holding my breath.
You can use Sharing Labels on albums. Odds are, if one track is explicit, others will be. Individual tracks can have tags, but they are used more for mood. I think right now Sharing Labels and excluding things with that label would achieve some of the goal.
I’d love this feature. Currently set my whole house up to use plexamp, and would love to give my kids the freedom to access the whole library, but would like to be able to block/ filter explicit songs from their access.
This is talked about, but I found nothing in the feature request. I’d like to see some kind of indication of which songs have explicit lyrics, followed by a way to filter out songs with such content.
I have whole house audio and use smart home automation to allow people to cycle through available Plex playlists. Having a way to identify and filter out explicit tracks is a must-have feature for me. Currently I’m going through all my tracks to tag them manually. Given this metadata exists, Plex should be incorporating it into the media server.
While I’m here, I’m doing my explicit tagging manually. If anyone knows a public API for saying if a track is explicit or not, I’d welcome a pointer.
You would think that plex would have some of this tagging since they used to have Tidal integration. I think that we should have better tagging and edition support for music.
Use [E] in the album and (Explicit) on the track level just like tidal does. This way for parental controls we could filter all songs that are explicit or filter the full albums.
Example:
Taylor Swift - ALBUM - 2024 - THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT - [E]/12 - Taylor Swift - loml (Explicit).flac
