Tags
This page describes both Tags (which are saved inside your music files and can be read by your music player) and Picard variables which can be used in Picard scripts (for tagging, for file renaming and in several other more minor settings).

All tags are also available as variables, but additional variables which start with '_' are not saved as Tags within your music files.

Variable are used in scripts by wrapping the name between '%' character e.g. '%title%'.

Some variables can contain more than one value (for example, musicbrainz_artistid), and if you want to use only one of the values then you will need to use special script functions to access / set them. To access all the multiple values at one, use the variable normally and Picard will combine them into a single string separated by '; ' (semicolon space).

If a later version of Picard is shown here than the current official version on the downloads page, then these are beta functionality which will be available in the next official release and a description of how to gain access to these beta versions for testing can also be found on the downloads page.