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
  releasetype
  album	ReleaseTitle
  asin	ASIN
  language
  script
  date	Release date (YYYY-MM-DD)
  tracknumber	Track number
  totaltracks	Total tracks on the album
  releasecountry
  catalognumber
  barcode
  label
  format
  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

• discnumber
  discsubtitle

Last.fm

• genre

  Pseudo-genre based on folksonomy tags

Other Information

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