Merge pull request #3448 from xhocquet/genius-lowercase-artist-fix

Genius lyrics fix for API capitalization behaviors

beetsplug/lyrics.py

@@ -395,13 +395,19 @@ class Genius(Backend):
 
         song_info = None
         for hit in json["response"]["hits"]:
-            if hit["result"]["primary_artist"]["name"] == artist:
+            # Genius uses zero-width characters to denote lowercase artist names
+            hit_artist = hit["result"]["primary_artist"]["name"].strip(u'\u200b').lower()
+
+            if hit_artist == artist.lower():
                 song_info = hit
                 break
 
         if song_info:
+            self._log.debug(u'fetched: {0}', song_info["result"]["url"])
             song_api_path = song_info["result"]["api_path"]
             return self.lyrics_from_song_api_path(song_api_path)
+        else:
+            self._log.debug(u'genius: no matching artist')
 
 
 class LyricsWiki(SymbolsReplaced):

docs/changelog.rst

@@ -151,6 +151,8 @@ Fixes:
 * :doc:`/plugins/bpd`: Fix the transition to next track when in consume mode.
   Thanks to :user:`aereaux`.
   :bug:`3437`
+* :doc:`/plugins/lyrics`: Fix a corner-case with Genius lowercase artist names
+  :bug:`3446`
 
 For plugin developers: