EXPLICIT_FLAG Error Flags, language & genre

Explicit flag must be set

Every track carries an explicit-content flag: explicit, clean or not explicit. A blank flag is not a default.

Severity
Error
Field
explicit
Checks
One field
Rule ID
EXPLICIT_FLAG
§ 01

How the checker tests it

Flags a blank or unrecognised value. Accepts explicit, clean, not explicit, true, false, yes and no.

Fix. Set explicit, clean or not explicit.

§ 02

Examples

(blank) Fails EXPLICIT_FLAG Set explicit, clean or not explicit.
maybe Fails EXPLICIT_FLAG Set explicit, clean or not explicit.
explicit Passes
clean Passes

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§ 03

Try it

Explicit flag missing/unrecognisedFix: Set explicit, clean or not explicit.
§ 05

Cite this rule

Metadata Style Guidelines (2026). EXPLICIT_FLAG: Explicit flag must be set. https://www.metadatastyleguidelines.com/rules/explicit-flag

https://www.metadatastyleguidelines.com/rules/explicit-flag