mherger wrote: 
> >> What’s the protocol? Do you contact Michael to add to the Json
> call?
> > 
> > It's not me asking for this change. I'd also prefer if the
> > online-service's genre could be in the player status message - perhaps
> > the protocol could be extended to have an 'album' genre field?
> 
> Unfortunately most music services (and in particular Spotify) don't care
> 
> about genres. There's no such thing.

Yep, interesting discussion about Genre here (and why it is disappearing
perhaps), and Spotify's approach.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/03/15/genre-is-disappearing-what-comes-next



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