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You can configure up to 16 Custom Tags in Tags (1) page of Preferences. Custom tags are:

  • tags defined in the tag standards which are not enabled in MusicBee by default (less common tags like "Subtitle", "Involved People List" or "Copyright"). These are automatically available in the "save to music file as tag" drop-down menu.
  • tags that you define your self. You can add any number of these in the top part of the Define New Tags window.

You can also choose not to save your custom tags to the music files, but instead save to MusicBee database only.

Available Custom Tags[]

Name ID3v2.3 ID3v2.4 Vorbis WMA
Album Sort-Order TSOA TSOA ALBUMSORT WM/AlbumSortOrder
Album Artist Sort-Order* TSO2 TSO2 ALBUMARTISTSORT WM/AlbumArtistSortOrder
Artist Sort-Order* TSOP TSOP ARTISTSORT WM/ArtistSortOrder
Composer Sort-Order TSOC TSOC COMPOSERSORT
Copyright TCOP TCOP COPYRIGHT Copyright
Encoding Time TXXX/ENCODINGTIME TDEN ENCODINGTIME WM/EncodingTime
Encoder Settings TSSE TSSE ENCODER SETTINGS WM/EncodingSettings
File Owner TOWN TOWN FILEOWNER
File Type TFLT TFLT SOURCE MEDIUM
Initial Key TKEY TKEY INITIAL KEY WM/InitialKey
Involved People List IPLS TIPL
ISRC TSRC TSRC ISRC WM/ISRC
iTunes Compilation TCMP TCMP COMPILATION
Language TLAN TLAN LANGUAGE WM/Language
Location TXXX/LOCATION TXXX/LOCATION LOCATION
Media Type TMED TMED MEDIA WM/Media
Musician Credits List IPLS TMCL MUSICIANCREDITSLIST
Net Radio Owner TRSO TRSO NET RADIO OWNER
Net Radio Station TRSN TRSN NET RADIO STATION
Original Album TOAL TOAL SOURCE ALBUM WM/OriginalAlbumTitle
Original Artist TOPE TOPE SOURCE ARTIST WM/OriginalArtist
Original Lyricst TOLY TOLY SOURCE LYRICIST WM/OriginalLyricist
Original Year TORY TDOR ORIGINAL YEAR WM/OriginalReleaseYear
Set Subtitle TXXX/SET SUBTITLE TSST DISCSUBTITLE WM/SetSubTitle
Subtitle TIT3 TIT3 SUBTITLE WM/SubTitle
Title Sort-Order TSOT TSOT TITLESORT WM/TitleSortOrder
WWW Artist WOAR WOAR ARTIST URL WM/AuthorURL
WWW Audio File WOAF WOAF AUDIO FILE URL WM/AudioFileURL
WWW Commercial Info WCOM WCOM PROMOTION URL WM/PromotionURL
WWW Copyright WCOP WCOP COPYRIGHT URL CopyrightURL
WWW Publisher WPUB WPUB PUBLISHER URL
WWW Radio Page WORS WORS RADIO PAGE URL

Custom Tag Settings[]

display name

Enter the label the tag will have when prompted for input or displayed on the main panel.

save to music file as tag

Select the logical tag name that values will be read from or saved to. By default MusicBee has a list of 30 or so predefined tags you can choose from, such as Sort-Artist for example. These predefined tags are less common but have defined standards for some formats (mostly the ID3 format for MP3 files). For the formats that have no standard defined, the tag names MusicBee uses are on a best-efforts basis aligned with Mp3Tag and foobar. You can add to the list with your tags - see Define New Tags below.

Define New Tags

On clicking the Define New Tags button you will be prompted to enter the details for the custom tags you want to create. The tags you create are saved to and read from music files as with any standard tag and can be used for sorting, filtering, searching and naming.

Enter an identifier for the tag and then the specific tag code for each format - in most cases there is no need to use a different code. One exception might be when the code is already used for one of the formats by other tools you use. On saving, the tags you define become selectable from the custom tags list above.

Other Sources

Mediamonkey: http://www.mediamonkey.com/sw/webhelp/frame/index.html?abouttrackproperties.htm

*Note: COMM:XXX > COMM/XXX (verify with Tag Inspector)

Musicbrainz: https://picard.musicbrainz.org/docs/tags/


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Tagging · Tag Editor · Tag Inspector · Auto-Tagging · Tagging Tools · Artwork · Lyrics · Genres
Custom Tags · Virtual Tags · Replay Gain · Additional Tagging & Reporting Tools · Tags Preferences

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