https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/API-Expose-song-genre/m-p/6056189#M13838 <P>Same here. wish it exposes it instead of artist which is mostly not even available or null.</P> Wed, 08 May 2024 07:00:23 GMT joeyboli 2024-05-08T07:00:23Z https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/API-Expose-song-genre/m-p/5646938#M10990 <P><SPAN>Hey hey</SPAN><SPAN>,</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>I</SPAN><SPAN>'ve built myself a pretty neat little program that will scan through all of my liked songs</SPAN><SPAN>, and sort them into playlists based on which genre it thinks they are</SPAN><SPAN>.</SPAN> <SPAN>I</SPAN><SPAN>'ve got a lot of songs</SPAN><SPAN>, so this kind of automation is needed</SPAN><SPAN>.</SPAN></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><SPAN>My actual request</SPAN><SPAN>, is that the spotify API just exposes the genre on specific songs</SPAN><SPAN>. At the moment</SPAN><SPAN>, I have to pull it through from the artist</SPAN><SPAN>. There are two</SPAN><SPAN>, very common</SPAN><SPAN>, scenarios where it fails</SPAN><SPAN>. Either the artist is someone that makes lots of different songs that can be categorized differently</SPAN><SPAN>, or when a song has lots of artists featured</SPAN><SPAN>.</SPAN></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><SPAN>To be able to get the genre of a song would be huge</SPAN><SPAN>, and put the API above all others</SPAN><SPAN>.</SPAN></P> Wed, 04 Oct 2023 21:20:00 GMT https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/API-Expose-song-genre/m-p/5646938#M10990 user-removed 2023-10-04T21:20:00Z https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/API-Expose-song-genre/m-p/6056189#M13838 <P>Same here. wish it exposes it instead of artist which is mostly not even available or null.</P> Wed, 08 May 2024 07:00:23 GMT https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/API-Expose-song-genre/m-p/6056189#M13838 joeyboli 2024-05-08T07:00:23Z