I'm an Indian Apple Music listener but I can't listen to explicit songs, the options to turn off regional restriction is greyed out (http://imgur.com/Uc0i8w5). Any ideas?
MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Early 2013), OS X Yosemite (10.10.4)
Unfortunately, this seems to have been forced upon Indian users for whatever reason. No way to change this at the moment. It's the same on the Phone as well (under "Restrictions").
Any way to get around it? I might as well switch to Rdio if this is forced
At the moment at least, there is no way around it. This may change in the future of course, but I doubt it. While India does not have specific laws against explicit music or lyrics, the Government can (and sometimes does) take action basis the 'Decency and Morality' exclusion for the guaranteed "Freedom of Speech and Expression" in the constitution. I think Apple has preemptively decided to censor explicit music to avoid any run-ins with legal issues in India.
But then how does Rdio get around it?
In my opinion, Apple is being overly cautious about this. As I said, to my knowledge there is no legislation that prevents the sale of music with explicit lyrics in India. I myself have bought CDs and even iTunes music in the past that had explicit lyrics. It's just that Rdio is probably fine with streaming such music, while Apple is not. It's a corporate decision at the end of the day.
By the way I have the same exact problem I live in Egypt and this is really frustrating I think I will be switching back to Spotify
I don't believe it's somehow connected with Indian laws. It's just a bug and it here for a bloody no reason. I suffer from the same issue using Belarusian ID. I managed to solve the issue on my phone running back up feature. As for mac I can't do anything for now.
:S
Seems unlikely to be a bug. It has been consistently implemented for certain countries across iOS, OS X and Windows (the first one in the Music app and the last two within iTunes). How did you manage to solve the issue on the phone?
I can't imagine it is for real as it's ridiculously terrible idea.
I run my phone from late back up and slider with explicit content became active somehow. Now I can play and download E-music on my iPhone.
Can I switch my region without sacrificing anything?
I have the same issue. As soon as I checked my music library after iOS 8.4 update, only 50 songs were there as 80% of the explicit music had disappeared(or just say, hidden), and then I changed my iTunes Store region to United States to only see that my explicit music re-appeared! And I guess @seltaebbeatles is right as far as Indian Digital Laws are concerned.
Well buddy the process is simple if you got an iphone
On your iphone
Go to : Settings>General>Restriction> Enable Restriction <---- Most important step
Then scroll down and click on : Music & Podcasts> Enable Explicit
That's it, now you'll be able to enjoy full eminem songs lol
I am a die hard stan so can't stay a day without explicit songs lol
Are you using the Indian iTunes store? Because this doesn't work.
Yeah I am definitely using indian music store man,
do you want a screenshot?
And you can see Cinderella Man in explicit form in Apple Music? Because it still doesn't work for me, I can't disable clean music restriction on my iPhone...
Can you show me a screenshot of your phone real quick?
Can't listen to explicit music (India)
