MusicBrainz Picard/Tags
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Revision as of 19:54, 26 August 2011 by OutsideContext (talk | contribs) (Added totaldiscs tag and moved discnumber to the main tags since this is now supported by picard without plugins.)
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 |
If you enable tagging with Advanced Relationships, you get these extra tags:
| 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 |
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
| 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.
