How-to guides

Cleaning playlists for schools, parties and kids. For exporting from DJ software and music apps, see the export guides.

• How to clean a school dance playlist

  Turn a student request list into a clean playlist before a school dance, homecoming or prom, and what to do about songs with no clean version.

• How to make a clean Spotify playlist

  Spotify's explicit-content setting blocks explicit songs but doesn't swap in clean versions. Here's how to get a clean playlist that keeps your songs.

• Clean vs radio edit vs explicit: what's the difference?

  What the labels on a song actually mean, why a radio edit isn't always clean, and why muting a song yourself sounds worse than the official clean version.