topic Re: Inability to Getting Track Genre Information in Spotify for Developers

Inability to Getting Track Genre Information

Murat53 — Sat, 21 Jan 2023 18:40:37 GMT

(Windows 10 desktop)

My Question or Issue

Is there any way to get track genre information with Spotify API (python)?

Re: Inability to Getting Track Genre Information

Ximzend — Sat, 21 Jan 2023 22:23:44 GMT

You can get the genre information with the Get Artist, or the Get Several Artists endpoint.

If you are using Spot iPy, you can use the commands sp.artist(artist_id) or sp.artists(artist_ids_list).

Because these endpoints don't require Authorization Scopes, you can use Client Credentials.

Re: Inability to Getting Track Genre Information

Murat53 — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 10:58:09 GMT

I want to determine the.genre of songs in my own playlist. Isn't that possible?

Re: Inability to Getting Track Genre Information

Ximzend — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 18:27:46 GMT

On Spotify, playlists have tracks, tracks have artists, and artists have genres. I think that's simple enough.

Re: Inability to Getting Track Genre Information

wolfgang_bures — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 17:54:09 GMT

But this view is exactly the problem. Not all songs of an artist fall in the same genre, not even on an given album. Each song should have it's genre.

Re: Inability to Getting Track Genre Information

Ximzend — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 18:29:54 GMT

I edited my comment, and added "On Spotify". My comment is about how the API of Spotify works, and is not my personal opinion.