Before Tagging

Clear existing tags

Checking this will remove all existing metadata and leave your files with only MusicBrainz metadata. Information you may have added through another media player such as “genre”, “comments” or “ratings” will be removed.

Remove ID3 tags from FLAC files

Check to remove ID3 tags from FLAC files – Vorbis Comments are recommended for FLAC files. Picard will write Vorbis Comments to FLAC files regardless of this setting.

Remove APEv2 tags from MP3 files

Check to remove APEv2 tags from MP3 files – ID3 is recommended for MP3 files. Picard will write ID3 tags to MP3 files regardless of this setting.

Preserve these tags from being cleared or overwritten with MusicBrainz data

This is an advanced option: If you have tags which you need to preserve, enter their names here to stop Picard from overwriting them.