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)