Making a list in Google Sheets for json output - json

Question

I'm attempting to use Google Sheets to make an audio library that would translate nicely into json (via CSV or some kind of live feed), but I haven't got clue on how to make sub columns that I'll later on use as tags (genre, lyrics theme etc).
Here's the correct json output I want to get from my spreadsheet:
{
"Songs": [
{
"Title": "Bed of Roses",
"Artist": "Bon Jovi",
"Metadata": {
"LyricsTheme": [
"Love",
"Romantic"
],
"Genre": [
"Hard rock",
"Ballad"
]
}
},
{
"Title": "Blue Monday",
"Artist": "New Order",
"Metadata": {
"LyricsTheme": [
"A",
"B",
"C"
],
"Genre": [
"Synthpop",
"Postpunk",
"New wave"
]
}
}
]
}
And here is what I've tried so far with Google Sheets (but that's nowhere near how I want it to be):
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

You'll need to have all of your field names in the first row, and you create the nesting with slashes like this:
This will give you:
[
{
"Title": "Bed of Roses",
"Artist": "Bon Jovi",
"Metadata": {
"LyricsTheme": "Love, Romantic",
"Genre": "Hard Rock, Ballad"
}
},
{
"Title": "Blue Monday",
"Artist": "New Order",
"Metadata": {
"LyricsTheme": "Dogs, Cats, Birds",
"Genre": "Synthpop, Postpunk, New wave"
}
}
]
Finally, in the utility that you use to convert the CSV to JSON, You need to find the output setting that gives you a Top Level Property Name, or something similar.
I used convertcsv.com and it is in the output section.
That will give you:
{
"Songs": [
{
"Title": "Bed of Roses",
"Artist": "Bon Jovi",
"Metadata": {
"LyricsTheme": "Love, Romantic",
"Genre": "Hard Rock, Ballad"
}
},
{
"Title": "Blue Monday",
"Artist": "New Order",
"Metadata": {
"LyricsTheme": "Dogs, Cats, Birds",
"Genre": "Synthpop, Postpunk, New wave"
}
}
]
}