Just when you thought it was safe to drop the f-bomb; Safemusic, a Michigan company, says they can remove profanity from music with proprietary software. The software's developer explains, "As a producer, a musician, and most importantly a parent I always have two things in mind; The best interest of my children and great music. Sometimes the two clash. There are some incredible songs out there that are sure to change the world or already have. Sometimes these songs can unfortunately contain one or two words that stop a child from listening to it or worse corrupting their mind. Songs such as Hate Me by Blue October, a song that to me shows passion and gratefulness toward the singer's mother is marred by a few words that I don't want my children exposed to. But I definitely want them exposed to the music and the message it carries."

Now, I could point out that your children hearing the f-bomb is not the end of the world. In the end, its probably safer and smarter for your kids to be exposed to profanity in a situation where you can help to contextualize it. Stripping the words from your music collection may rob you of precious opportunities to explain why those words shouldn't be said in most situations. However, if your hell bent on taking the ____ out of The Dead Kennedy's "Too Drunk to ____", Safemusic has the answer.

The software not only allows you to mute sections of a song you may find questionable but, allows you to share those edit points among other users of the software, creating a collaborative filter based on time points within specified songs. So, if you want to baby proof the punk rock collection you can cut the work considerably by raiding the efforts of others who've done the same.

[via P2P Blog]