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App Description

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.

App Changes

• September 19, 2014 Initial release
• October 07, 2014 New version 1.1.0
• October 08, 2014 Price decrease: $6.99 -> $2.99
• September 19, 2015 New version 1.2.2
• September 19, 2015 Price increase: $2.99 -> $3.99
• February 24, 2016 New version 1.3.0
• November 05, 2016 Price decrease: $3.99 -> $0.99
• December 09, 2016 New version 1.4.0
• December 10, 2016 New version 1.4.1
• December 22, 2016 Price increase: $0.99 -> $2.99
• June 14, 2019 New version 1.6.2
• June 14, 2019 Price increase: $2.99 -> $4.99
• June 16, 2019 Price increase: $2.99 -> $4.99
• September 29, 2019 New version 1.7.0
• December 09, 2019 Price increase: $4.99 -> $5.99
• January 13, 2020 Price decrease: $5.99 -> $2.99
• January 21, 2020 Price increase: $2.99 -> $5.99
• July 14, 2020 New version 2020.2
• July 14, 2020 Price decrease: $5.99 -> FREE!
• September 16, 2023 New version 2022.1