Denied sees what you're playing in Spotify, iTunes and Apple Music and automatically skips songs that you dislike.
Tracks can be skipped by their artist, title, album, whether they contain explicit lyrics*, or if you’ve heard them before in the past few hours.
Denied allows you to truly enjoy Top 40 playlists, the Christmas season, Spotify Radio and iTunes Radio.
Works with the Spotify desktop app, iTunes and Apple Music.
As seen on the internet
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"That’s where Denied comes in. With a few clicks, you can banish your least-favorite songs or bands from earshot for good."
– Macworld
"Spotify is awesome, but it has one problem. When you're listening to compilations or radio, you sometimes come across artists you hate. Denied fixes that by creating simple rules."
– Lifehacker
"Fortunately you can now download a nifty little app to prevent unwanted artists sneaking into your speakers."
– FACT
Features
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• Create rules to skip songs by their title, artist or album.
• Specify match criteria: starts with, ends with, contains or equals to.
• Skip songs that contain explicit lyrics.
• Skip songs that you've heard before in the past few hours.
• Skip songs that you've marked as 'disliked' in iTunes and Apple Music.
• See which song is currently playing and..
• Add rules straight from the Now Playing information.
• Optionally display notifications when a song is skipped.
• Import and export rules, allowing you to download pre-made rule lists and share your own rules with your friends.
Requirements
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• Works with the Spotify desktop app, iTunes and Apple Music.
• You'll need a distaste for certain bands, songs or albums, explicit lyrics or repeating songs.
* Skipping explicit songs requires an internet connection.
Obviously nobody in their right mind would skip a song by Gunship. That album art is just too awesome though.
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Only one problem...
maitri1
… you might actually end up listening to Nickelback while you are setting it up and testing it, by accident. Even a little exposure might be too much.I will use it with iTunes radio, and it will make it better.
Very useful
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Skip repeating songs makes both Spotify and Apple Music useable. Would love to like/dislike songs from the menubar.
Developer Response
Thanks for the review!
It Works!
Deektee
I’m a design teacher and love to play Spotify in my classroom when students are working independently. Denied allows me to play those playlists I used to have to bypass due to the multiple titles with explicit content.
Developer Response
Excellent! :)
No more christian rock!
Dazed1124
I can finally skip all of the christian rock music that Spotify is so intent on playing! I built a list of over 1,000 christian artists based on Spotify playlists and Wikipedia. The import feature in Denied reads in JSON, I converted my list to the right format and ran the import. It’s working perfectly! My devil worshipping can continue uninterrupted now!Skipping recently played songs is a big plus, I didn’t realize how often the same songs were repeated. I’ve found so many new artists and songs because of this feature! If I leave Spotify up on my desktop and start playing it on my phone the app on the computer still continues to skip repeats and blocked artists/songs.A big thank you to the developers for producing an incredibly useful app!
Developer Response
That's the most impressive use of the import feature I've heard! Happy to hear Denied is improving your Spotify listening experience. :)Thanks for the review!
Updated dependencies.
Version 2024.2
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