When scanning or playing a song, MPD parses its metadata. The following tags are supported:
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 decimal 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 decimal 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.