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 | |
_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 (releases, recordings), Chorus Master Relationship Type (releases, recordings) |
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 (releases, recordings) (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.
For tags that can contain more than one value (for example, musicbrainz_artistid) the values are separated by ;