MusicBrainz Picard / Tags
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Basic Tags
These tags are available for most releases from MusicBrainz, with the default Picard settings.
Tags beginning with an '_' are not mapped to any media header tags by default, but are available for scripts and plugins to use.
| title | Track Title (Recording title if using 'Standardized' tags) | |
| _recordingcomment | Recording Comment | |
| artist | Artist Name | |
| artistsort | Artist Sort Name | |
| albumartist | Release Artist | |
| albumartistsort | Release Artist's Sort Name | |
| releasestatus | Release Status | |
| releasetype | Release Type | |
| album | Release Title | |
| asin | ASIN | |
| language | Release Language | |
| script | Release Script | |
| date | Release Date (YYYY-MM-DD) | |
| originaldate | Original Release Date (YYYY-MM-DD) (since 0.15, from earliest release in Release Group) | |
| tracknumber | Track number | |
| totaltracks | Total tracks on the medium/disc | |
| discnumber | DiscNumber | |
| totaldiscs | Total number of discs of this release | |
| discsubtitle | DiscNumberStyle | |
| _releasecomment | Release Comment | |
| releasecountry | Release Country | |
| catalognumber | Release Catalog Number | |
| barcode | Barcode | |
| label | Label Name | |
| media | Release Format | |
| compilation | 0 for single artist albums, 1 for multiple artist albums | |
| musicbrainz_trackid | Track ID | |
| musicbrainz_artistid | Artist ID | |
| musicbrainz_albumid | Release ID | |
| musicbrainz_albumartistid | Release Artist's Artist ID | |
| isrc | ISRC | |
| _dirname | The name of the directory the file is in at the point of being loaded into Picard. (Since Picard 1.1) | |
| _filename | The name of the file without extension (Since Picard 1.1) | |
| _extension | The files extension (Since Picard 1.1) |
If you enable tagging with Advanced Relationships, you get these extra tags:
| writer | Writer Relationship Type (since Picard 1.0; not written to most file formats automatically[1]) |
| composer | Composer Relationship Type |
| conductor | Conductor Relationship Type, Chorus Master Relationship Type |
| performer:<type> | Performer Relationship Type, Orchestra Relationship Type, <type> can be "orchestra", "vocal", "guest guitar", ... |
| arranger | Arranger Relationship Type, Instrumentator Relationship Type, Orchestrator Relationship Type |
| lyricist | Lyricist Relationship Type |
| remixer | Remixer Relationship Type |
| producer | Producer Relationship Type |
| engineer | Engineer Relationship Type |
| mixer | Engineer Relationship Type ("Mixed By") |
| djmixer | Mix-DJ Relationship Type |
| license | License Relationship Type (since Picard 1.0) |
And if you enable folksonomy tags, you get:
| genre | Pseudo-genre based on folksonomy tags |
Plugins
Plugins from Picard Plugins can add more tags.
Last.fm
| genre | Pseudo-genre based on folksonomy tags |
Original Release Date (Pre-NGS plugin)
| originaldate | The original release date (pre-NGS, from "earliest release" advanced relationships) |
Other Information
For technical details on how these tags are written into files, see Picard Tag Mapping.