Advanced Tags

You can make additional tags available by enabling the Use track relationships and/or the Use genres from MusicBrainz settings in Picard.

Some tags provide the MusicBrainz Identifier (MBID) of the entity. The MBID is a 32-character identifier assigned to an entity (e.g.: artist, album, track or work) to uniquely identify the entity. For more information about MBIDs, please see the MusicBrainz Identifier page in the MusicBrainz documentation.

Note

Tags will not be created and will not be available as variables if there was no value retrieved for the tag from the MusicBrainz database.

Note

Some of these tags are only supported for certain file types or tag formats. Please see the Picard Tag Mapping section for details.

Track Relationship Tags

If you enable “Use track relationships” in the Option settings, you get these extra tags:

arranger

The names of the arrangers associated with the track. These can include the instrument and orchestra arrangers, and could be associated with the release, recording or work. (since Picard 0.10)

composer

The names of the composers for the associated work.

composersort

The sort names of the composers for the associated work.

conductor

The names of the conductors associated with the track. These can include the conductor and chorus master, and could be associated with the release or recording.

director

The director of a track as provided by the Video Director or Audio Director relationship in MusicBrainz. (Since Picard 2.6, updated in Picard 2.9)

djmixer

The names of the DJ mixers for the track. (since Picard 0.9)

engineer

The names of the engineers associated with the track.

language

Work lyric language as per ISO 639-3 if a related work exists. (since Picard 0.10)

license

The licenses associated with the track, either through the release or recording relationships. (since Picard 1.0)

lyricist

The names of the lyricists for the associated work.

mixer

The names of the “Mixed By” engineers associated with the track. (since Picard 0.9)

musicbrainz_workid

The MBID for the Work if a related work exists.

performer:<type>

The names of the performers for the specified type. These types include:

  • vocals or instruments for the associated release or recording, where <type> can be “vocal”, “guest guitar”, “solo violin”, etc.

  • the orchestra for the associated release or recording, where <type> is “orchestra

  • the concert master for the associated release or recording, where <type> is “concertmaster

producer

The names of the producers for the associated release or recording.

remixer

The names of the remixer engineers associated with the track.

work

The name of the work associated with the track. (since Picard 1.3)

writer

A multi-value tag containing the names of the writers associated with the related work. (since Picard 1.0). This is not written to most file formats automatically. You can merge this with composers with a script like:

$copymerge(composer, writer)

Note

Some tags such as performer are available as both track and release level relationships, and the values may be different depending on which relationship options are enabled.

Genre Tags

If you enable “Use genres from MusicBrainz”, you get:

genre

A multi-value tag containing the specified genre information from MusicBrainz (since Picard 2.1, earlier versions used folksonomy tags)