tags.xml

   1 <?xml version='1.0' encoding="utf-8"?>
   2 <!DOCTYPE itemizedlist PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
   3                               "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd">
   4
   5 <itemizedlist>
   6   <listitem>
   7     <para>
   8       <varname>artist</varname>: the artist name.  Its meaning is not
   9       well-defined; see <varname>composer</varname> and
  10       <varname>performer</varname> for more specific tags.
  11     </para>
  12   </listitem>
  13
  14   <listitem>
  15     <para>
  16       <varname>artistsort</varname>: same as
  17       <varname>artist</varname>, but for sorting.  This usually omits
  18       prefixes such as "The".
  19     </para>
  20   </listitem>
  21
  22   <listitem>
  23     <para>
  24       <varname>album</varname>: the album name.
  25     </para>
  26   </listitem>
  27
  28   <listitem>
  29     <para>
  30       <varname>albumsort</varname>: same as <varname>album</varname>,
  31       but for sorting.
  32     </para>
  33   </listitem>
  34
  35   <listitem>
  36     <para>
  37       <varname>albumartist</varname>: on multi-artist albums, this is
  38       the artist name which shall be used for the whole album.  The
  39       exact meaning of this tag is not well-defined.
  40     </para>
  41   </listitem>
  42
  43   <listitem>
  44     <para>
  45       <varname>albumartistsort</varname>: same as
  46       <varname>albumartist</varname>, but for sorting.
  47     </para>
  48   </listitem>
  49
  50   <listitem>
  51     <para>
  52       <varname>title</varname>: the song title.
  53     </para>
  54   </listitem>
  55
  56   <listitem>
  57     <para>
  58       <varname>track</varname>: the track number within the album.
  59     </para>
  60   </listitem>
  61
  62   <listitem>
  63     <para>
  64       <varname>name</varname>: a name for this song.  This is not the
  65       song title.  The exact meaning of this tag is not well-defined.
  66       It is often used by badly configured internet radio stations
  67       with broken tags to squeeze both the artist name and the song
  68       title in one tag.
  69     </para>
  70   </listitem>
  71
  72   <listitem>
  73     <para>
  74       <varname>genre</varname>: the music genre.
  75     </para>
  76   </listitem>
  77
  78   <listitem>
  79     <para>
  80       <varname>date</varname>: the song's release date.  This is
  81       usually a 4-digit year.
  82     </para>
  83   </listitem>
  84
  85   <listitem>
  86     <para>
  87       <varname>composer</varname>: the artist who composed the song.
  88     </para>
  89   </listitem>
  90
  91   <listitem>
  92     <para>
  93       <varname>performer</varname>: the artist who performed the song.
  94     </para>
  95   </listitem>
  96
  97   <listitem>
  98     <para>
  99       <varname>comment</varname>: a human-readable comment about this
 100       song.  The exact meaning of this tag is not well-defined.
 101     </para>
 102   </listitem>
 103
 104   <listitem>
 105     <para>
 106       <varname>disc</varname>: the disc number in a multi-disc album.
 107     </para>
 108   </listitem>
 109
 110   <listitem>
 111     <para>
 112       <varname>musicbrainz_artistid</varname>: the artist id in the
 113       <ulink
 114       url="http://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainzTag">MusicBrainz</ulink>
 115       database.
 116     </para>
 117   </listitem>
 118
 119   <listitem>
 120     <para>
 121       <varname>musicbrainz_albumid</varname>: the album id in the
 122       <ulink
 123       url="http://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainzTag">MusicBrainz</ulink>
 124       database.
 125     </para>
 126   </listitem>
 127
 128   <listitem>
 129     <para>
 130       <varname>musicbrainz_albumartistid</varname>: the album artist
 131       id in the <ulink
 132       url="http://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainzTag">MusicBrainz</ulink>
 133       database.
 134     </para>
 135   </listitem>
 136
 137   <listitem>
 138     <para>
 139       <varname>musicbrainz_trackid</varname>: the track id in the
 140       <ulink
 141       url="http://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainzTag">MusicBrainz</ulink>
 142       database.
 143     </para>
 144   </listitem>
 145
 146   <listitem>
 147     <para>
 148       <varname>musicbrainz_releasetrackid</varname>: the release track
 149       id in the <ulink
 150       url="http://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainzTag">MusicBrainz</ulink>
 151       database.
 152     </para>
 153   </listitem>
 154 </itemizedlist>