v1.28.0 — Wrong answers that fit the song

Wrong answers that fit the song

The four options could give a round away on their own: if the clip is clearly a rock song and three of the four artists are hip-hop acts, the answer is the odd one out and nobody has to listen.

Decoys are now drawn from the same genre as the correct answer, preferring the same decade, and widen in stages when the library can't supply them — same genre and decade, then same genre, then same decade, then anything. The last two stages are what the game did before, so a track with no genre tag, or a library too small for the narrow stages, plays exactly as it did.

Genre tags are matched across spelling variants, so Hip Hop and Hip-Hop count as one genre. Related-but-distinct tags are kept apart on purpose: Rock, Hard Rock and Classic Rock are not merged into a family. Nothing needs re-syncing or re-cutting — this reads the genre tags already in the database.

Also in this release: two options can no longer be the same act under different credits (Nirvana and Nirvana Feat. …).

Measured on a 49,000-track library, 92% of rounds now get three same-genre wrong answers, up from effectively none.