MusicBrainz Picard/Tags
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[edit] 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 |
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 |
[edit] Plugins
Plugins from Picard Plugins can add more tags.
[edit] Last.fm
| genre | Pseudo-genre based on folksonomy tags |
[edit] Original Release Date (Pre-NGS plugin)
| originaldate | The original release date (pre-NGS, from "earliest release" advanced relationships) |
[edit] Other Information
For technical details on how these tags are written into files, see Picard Tag Mapping.

