Explain how song genres are determined

plamere / OrganizeYourMusic

Organize your saved music on Spotify

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Explain how song genres are determined #6

Open dandv opened 4 years ago

dandv commented 4 years ago

How exactly is the genre of a song determined? It would help to add this to the README.

Looks like the code gets the genres of the album, then those of the artist, then picks the first from that list that's not "unclassified".

However, I haven't seen the Spotify API return the genre of any album I've thrown at it, including extremely popular ones like Queen - Greatest Hits, Brian Adams - Cuts Like a Knife, Massive Attack - Mezannine or Protection etc.

jtagcat commented 3 years ago

Make a PR for the homepage and README.

dandv commented 3 years ago

I was not sufficiently familiar with the project to make an accurate PR when I submitted this issue a year ago, and now I'm even less so.