Advanced Tags

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

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 tagging with “Use track relationships”, you get these extra tags:

arranger

Arranger Relationship Type (releases, recordings, works), Instrumentator Relationship Type, Orchestrator Relationship Type (since Picard 0.10)

composer

Composer Relationship Type

composersort

Composer Relationship Type’s Sort Name

conductor

Conductor Relationship Type (releases, recordings), Chorus Master Relationship Type (releases, recordings)

djmixer

Mix-DJ Relationship Type (since Picard 0.9)

engineer

Engineer Relationship Type

license

License Relationship Type (releases, recordings) (since Picard 1.0)

lyricist

Lyricist Relationship Type

mixer

Engineer Relationship Type (“Mixed By”) (since Picard 0.9)

performer:<type>

Performer Relationship Type (releases - vocals/instruments, recordings - vocals/instruments), <type> can be “vocal”, “guest guitar”, “solo violin”, …

Orchestra Relationship Type (releases, recordings), <type> is “orchestra”

Concertmaster Relationship Type (releases, recordings), <type> is “concertmaster”

producer

Producer Relationship Type

remixer

Remixer Relationship Type

work

Work Name (since Picard 1.3)

writer

Writer Relationship Type (since Picard 1.0). Not written to most file formats automatically. You can merge this with composers with a script like:

$copymerge(composer, writer)

Genre Tags

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

genre

Genre information from MusicBrainz (since Picard 2.1, earlier versions used folksonomy tags)