# iTunes metadata

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/itunes-metadata/9596
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [December 28, 2009, 12:09pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/itunes-metadata/9596 "2009-12-28T12:09:03Z")
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### Author: ![Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/florian/32/5759_2.png) [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2011, 6:57pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/itunes-metadata/9596/5 "2011-11-21T18:57:03Z")

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> [@yindesuu](#):
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> This is a really old post, but it's a top Google result so I wanted to say that in my experience, "explicit" is indicated by a "1", not a "4".

Is your observation based on files that are downloaded from the iTunes Store? I did some tests and it seems that iTunes treats everything as "Explicit" except 0 (which is no rating) and 2 (which is rated as "Clean").

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