genres parameter doesn't work (for me)

[kaefert]

I added the parameter "--genres album" but only get those 3 lines for any track downloaded with it:

Attempting to retrieve genres from Spotify's Web API https://api.spotify.com/v1/albums/{{{ID}}} URL returned non-200 HTTP code: 401

gonna try "--genres artist" next, let's see if that makes a difference.

[lavolp3]

Honestly I have never tried genres. Will have a look into it. Thanks for sending in the issue

[kaefert]

Thank you for continuing development and even supporting this very useful piece of software :)

Just wanted to report that I tried with "--genres artist" too, and got nearly the same result, just different URL to reflect artist instead of album:

Attempting to retrieve genres from Spotify's Web API
https://api.spotify.com/v1/artists/{{{ID}}}
URL returned non-200 HTTP code: 401

[lavolp3]

The web api saves the genre now as part of the album (album.genre) and apparently does not offer an own call anymore. I will try to divert this to a spotipy call since I'm not common to libspotify. But it will take some time.

[lavolp3]

The genre property of albums is empty by default apparently according to this issue :-( https://github.com/spotify/web-api/issues/ 157 I found that out AFTER I fixed it :-) I could extract the genre array for the ARTIST, but not sure if that is helpful. This would save the genre array of the artist into the track, which MAY be misleading.

Also, can be quite a lot as in one of my favourite bands:

  "genres": [
    "alternative metal",
    "gothenburg metal",
    "groove metal",
    "melodic death metal",
    "melodic metalcore",
    "metal",
    "nu metal",
    "swedish death metal",
    "swedish metal"
  ],

What do you think?

[kaefert]

Nice, yeah sure genres of Artist would be helpful too, less specific than album but still nice! :) Did you connect it to the "--genres artist" parameter?

[lavolp3]

Should work now. Please note to use the --genres flag WITHOUT any further option. Since there is only the artist's genre available I removed that.

[kaefert]

thank you! tested it, works perfect! :)