topic Re: Get Umbrella Genre From Track in Spotify for Developers

Get Umbrella Genre From Track

2jl30sc-8_bm8 — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 21:57:54 GMT

Hello,

I'm currently working on a website to sort tracks by genre.

I've accepted that I have to use the genres the artist is categorized as. (I wonder why they don't offer it at track level, some artists have songs that have different genres. Apple music does it 👀)

But my problem is that those genres are too specific. I wish that there was a way to just get the umbrella genre instead of a sub genre.

For example Kendrick Lamer
[ "conscious hip hop", "hip hop", "rap", "west coast rap" ] -> Rap.

But I'm sure that I will never be able to get something like that from the api so I was wondering if there is a list with all the genres that exists on Spotify? (and not just the genre seeds)

Re: Get Umbrella Genre From Track

31ctuerdx7u7q3qtj6jc — Sun, 09 Apr 2023 10:16:51 GMT

Hey have you found out a way to do this by yourself ?

Re: Get Umbrella Genre From Track

2jl30sc-8_bm8 — Sun, 09 Apr 2023 10:21:43 GMT

Unfortunatly no, I gave up.

If you find a solution, could you let me know?

Re: Get Umbrella Genre From Track

31ctuerdx7u7q3qtj6jc — Sun, 09 Apr 2023 10:36:32 GMT

I will do it myself, i currently working on a project close to yours which first step is to allow people to filter their playlist by genre. If you are interest maybe i could show you, i'm a french web developer but i speak english

Re: Get Umbrella Genre From Track

VeraJunior — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 22:02:06 GMT

There is a list of every genre available on Spotify at Every Noise at Once . I don't know if it answers the problem you are facing, there's currently more than 6000 genres in the list...

Re: Get Umbrella Genre From Track

Samurad — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 22:41:37 GMT

Hi 31ctuerdx7u7q3qtj6jc 🙂 Please, did you manage to build your project?