Advanced Variables

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

Some variables 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

Variables will not be created if there was no value retrieved for the variable from the MusicBrainz database.

Release Relationship Variables

If you enable tagging with Use release relationships, you get these extra variables:

_release_series

A multi-value variable containing the series titles associated with the release. (since Picard 2.9)

_release_seriesid

A multi-value variable containing the series MBIDs associated with the release. (since Picard 2.9)

_release_seriescomment

A multi-value variable containing the series disambiguation comments associated with the release. (since Picard 2.9)

_release_seriesnumber

A multi-value variable containing the series numbers associated with the release. (since Picard 2.9)

_releasegroup_series

A multi-value variable containing the series titles associated with the release group. (since Picard 2.9)

_releasegroup_seriesid

A multi-value variable containing the series MBIDs associated with the release group. (since Picard 2.9)

_releasegroup_seriescomment

A multi-value variable containing the series disambiguation comments associated with the release group. (since Picard 2.9)

_releasegroup_seriesnumber

A multi-value variable containing the series numbers associated with the release group. (since Picard 2.9)

Track Relationship Variables

If you enable tagging with Use track relationships, you get these extra variables:

_lyricistsort

The sort names of the lyricists for the work. (since Picard 2.9)

_performance_attributes

List of performance attributes for the work (e.g.: “live”, “cover”, “medley”). Use $inmulti to check for a specific type (i.e.: $if($inmulti(%_performance_attributes%,medley), (Medley),)). (since Picard 1.3)

_recordingtitle

Recording title - normally the same as the track title, but can be different.

_recording_series

A multi-value variable containing the series titles associated with the recording. (since Picard 2.9)

_recording_seriesid

A multi-value variable containing the series MBIDs associated with the recording. (since Picard 2.9)

_recording_seriescomment

A multi-value variable containing the series disambiguation comments associated with the recording. (since Picard 2.9)

_recording_seriesnumber

A multi-value variable containing the series numbers associated with the recording. (since Picard 2.9)

_workcomment

The disambiguation comment associated with the work. (since Picard 2.7)

_work_series

A multi-value variable containing the series titles associated with the work. (since Picard 2.9)

_work_seriesid

A multi-value variable containing the series MBIDs associated with the work. (since Picard 2.9)

_work_seriescomment

A multi-value variable containing the series disambiguation comments associated with the work. (since Picard 2.9)

_work_seriesnumber

A multi-value variable containing the series numbers associated with the work. (since Picard 2.9)

_writersort

The sort names of the writers for the work. (since Picard 2.9)