The following tags are supported by MPD:
artist
: the artist name. Its meaning is not
well-defined; see composer
and
performer
for more specific tags.
artistsort
: same as
artist
, but for sorting. This usually omits
prefixes such as "The".
album
: the album name.
albumsort
: same as album
,
but for sorting.
albumartist
: on multi-artist albums, this is
the artist name which shall be used for the whole album. The
exact meaning of this tag is not well-defined.
albumartistsort
: same as
albumartist
, but for sorting.
title
: the song title.
track
: the track number within the album.
name
: a name for this song. This is not the
song title. The exact meaning of this tag is not well-defined.
It is often used by badly configured internet radio stations
with broken tags to squeeze both the artist name and the song
title in one tag.
genre
: the music genre.
date
: the song's release date. This is
usually a 4-digit year.
composer
: the artist who composed the song.
performer
: the artist who performed the song.
comment
: a human-readable comment about this
song. The exact meaning of this tag is not well-defined.
disc
: the disc number in a multi-disc album.
musicbrainz_artistid
: the artist id in the
MusicBrainz
database.
musicbrainz_albumid
: the album id in the
MusicBrainz
database.
musicbrainz_albumartistid
: the album artist
id in the MusicBrainz
database.
musicbrainz_trackid
: the track id in the
MusicBrainz
database.
musicbrainz_releasetrackid
: the release track
id in the MusicBrainz
database.
There can be multiple values for some of these tags. For
example, MPD may return multiple
lines with a performer
tag. A tag value is
a UTF-8 string.