Custom Tags

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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