getSongsByGenre

Returns songs in a given genre.

Parameters

Parameter	Req.	Default	Comment
`genre`	Yes		The genre, as returned by `getGenres`.
`count`	No	10	The maximum number of songs to return. Max 500.
`offset`	No	0	The offset. Useful if you want to page through the songs in a genre.
`musicFolderId`	No		(Since 1.12.0) Only return albums in the music folder with the given ID. See `getMusicFolders`.

Example

http://your-server/rest/getSongsByGenre.view?genre=Electronic&u=demo&p=demo&v=1.13.0&c=AwesomeClientName&f=json

Result

A subsonic-response element with a nested songsByGenre element on success.

{
  "subsonic-response": {
    "status": "ok",
    "version": "1.16.1",
    "type": "AwesomeServerName",
    "serverVersion": "0.1.3 (tag)",
    "openSubsonic": true,
    "songsByGenre": {
      "song": [
        {
          "id": "300000060",
          "parent": "200000002",
          "title": "BrownSmoke",
          "isDir": false,
          "isVideo": false,
          "type": "music",
          "albumId": "200000002",
          "album": "Colorsmoke EP",
          "artistId": "100000002",
          "artist": "Synthetic",
          "coverArt": "300000060",
          "duration": 304,
          "bitRate": 20,
          "bitDepth": 16,
          "samplingRate": 44100,
          "channelCount": 2,
          "userRating": 5,
          "averageRating": 5,
          "track": 4,
          "year": 2007,
          "genre": "Electronic",
          "size": 792375,
          "discNumber": 1,
          "suffix": "wma",
          "contentType": "audio/x-ms-wma",
          "path": "Synthetic/Synthetic_-_Colorsmoke_EP-20k217-2007/04-Synthetic_-_BrownSmokeYSBM20k22khS.wma"
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

{
  "subsonic-response": {
    "status": "ok",
    "version": "1.16.1",
    "songsByGenre": {
      "song": [
        {
          "id": "300000060",
          "parent": "200000002",
          "title": "BrownSmoke",
          "isDir": false,
          "isVideo": false,
          "type": "music",
          "albumId": "200000002",
          "album": "Colorsmoke EP",
          "artistId": "100000002",
          "artist": "Synthetic",
          "coverArt": "300000060",
          "duration": 304,
          "bitRate": 20,
          "bitDepth": 16,
          "samplingRate": 44100,
          "channelCount": 2,
          "userRating": 5,
          "averageRating": 5,
          "track": 4,
          "year": 2007,
          "genre": "Electronic",
          "size": 792375,
          "discNumber": 1,
          "suffix": "wma",
          "contentType": "audio/x-ms-wma",
          "path": "Synthetic/Synthetic_-_Colorsmoke_EP-20k217-2007/04-Synthetic_-_BrownSmokeYSBM20k22khS.wma"
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

Field	Type	Req.	OpenS.	Details
`songsByGenre`	`songs`	Yes		The songs list

Last modified May 20, 2025: Update to latest Docsy version (#147) (0a50bcd)