MusicBrainz Picard/Tags

Basic Tags

These tags are available for most releases from MusicBrainz, with the default Picard settings:

• title	TrackTitle
  artist	ArtistName
  artistsort	ArtistSortName
  albumartist	ReleaseArtist
  albumartistsort	ReleaseArtist ArtistSortName
  releasestatus	ReleaseStatus
  releasetype	ReleaseType
  album	ReleaseTitle
  asin	ASIN
  language	ReleaseLanguage
  script	ReleaseLanguage
  date	ReleaseDate (YYYY-MM-DD)
  tracknumber	Track number
  totaltracks	Total tracks on the album
  releasecountry	ReleaseCountry
  catalognumber	ReleaseCatalogNumber
  barcode	BarCode
  label	LabelName
  format	ReleaseFormat
  compilation	0 for single artist albums, 1 for multiple artist albums
  musicbrainz_trackid	TrackID
  musicbrainz_artistid	ArtistID
  musicbrainz_albumid	ReleaseID
  musicbrainz_albumartistid	ReleaseArtist's ArtistID

If you enable tagging with AdvancedRelationships, you get these extra tags:

• composer	ComposerRelationshipType
  conductor	ConductorRelationshipType, ChorusMasterRelationshipType
  performer:<type>	PerformerRelationshipType, OrchestraRelationshipType, <type> can be "orchestra", "vocal", "guest guitar", ...
  arranger	ArrangerRelationshipType, InstrumentatorRelationshipType, OrchestratorRelationshipType
  lyricist	LyricistRelationshipType
  remixer	RemixerRelationshipType
  producer	ProducerRelationshipType
  engineer	EngineerRelationshipType
  mixer	EngineerRelationshipType ("Mixed By")
  djmixer	MixDJRelationshipType

And if you enable folksonomy tags, you get:

• genre

  Pseudo-genre based on folksonomy tags

Plugins

Plugins from PicardPlugins can add more tags.

Disc Numbers

Inferred from the ReleaseTitle and DiscNumberStyle.

• discnumber	DiscNumber
  discsubtitle	DiscNumberStyle

Last.fm

• genre

  Pseudo-genre based on folksonomy tags

Other Information

For technical details on how are these tags written into files, see PicardTagMapping.