Tag Mapping

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This page attempts to document a useful mapping between the tagging schemes used on various file formats. The aim is to allow tag data (metadata) to be transferred between file formats without information loss.

Due to the re-purposing of ID3v2's TPE2 as Album Artist, we have no field to store the name of the Orchestra, yet we have a dedicated field for the Conductor.

Tag Mapping
Name	ID3v1.1	ID3v2.3	ID3v2.4	Vorbis Comment

Titles

Album Title	Album (30 chars)	TALB	TALB	ALBUM ^S ¹ ²
Album Title Sort Order ⁷		TSOA / XSOA ⁹	TSOA	ALBUMSORT ⁹
Track Title	Title (30 chars)	TIT2	TIT2	TITLE ^S ¹ ²
Track Title Sort Order ⁷		TSOT ⁷ / XSOT ⁹	TSOT	TITLESORT ⁹
Disc Subtitle ⁹			TSST	DISCSUBTITLE ⁹
Content Group ⁷		TIT1	TIT1	GROUPING ⁹
Track Subtitle⁷		TIT3	TIT3	SUBTITLE ⁹
Chapter name				CHAPTERxxxNAME ⁵

People + Organisations

Album Artist		TPE2	TPE2	ALBUMARTIST ⁶
Album Artist Sort Order ⁷		TSO2 ⁷ / TXXX:ALBUMARTISTSORT ⁹	"	ALBUMARTISTSORT ⁹
Track Artist	Artist (30 chars)	TPE1	TPE1	ARTIST ^S ¹ ²
Track Artist Sort Order ⁷		TSOP ⁷ / XSOP ⁹	TSOP	ARTISTSORT ⁹
Arranger		IPLS:arranger ⁹	TIPL:arranger	ARRANGER ^M ²
Author / Writer		TEXT	TEXT	AUTHOR ^M ²
Composer		TCOM	TCOM	COMPOSER ^M ² ⁴
Composer Sort Order ⁷			TSOC	TSOC
Conductor		TPE3	TPE3	CONDUCTOR ^M ²
Engineer ⁹		IPLS:engineer	TIPL:engineer	ENGINEER ⁹
Ensemble				ENSEMBLE ^M ²
Involved People ⁸		IPLS	TIPL
Lyricist		TEXT ⁷	TEXT	LYRICIST ^M ²
Mix-DJ ⁹		IPLS:DJ-mix	TIPL:DJ-mix	DJMIXER ⁹
Mix Engineer ⁹		IPLS:mix	TIPL:mix	MIXER ⁹
Musician Credits ⁸			TMCL
Organisation				ORGANIZATION ¹
Performer		IPLS ⁹	TMCL ⁹ CHECK!	PERFORMER ^M ¹ ²
Producer ⁹		IPLS:producer	TIPL:producer	PRODUCER ⁹
Publisher		TPUB	TPUB	PUBLISHER ^S ²
Remixed By ⁷ / Mix Artist ⁸		TPE4	TPE4
Soloists				SOLOISTS ⁶

Item Numbers and indexes

Disc Number		TPOS=Disc Number/Disc Total	"	DISCNUMBER ^S ² ⁴
Disc Total		TPOS=Disc Number/Disc Total	"	DISCTOTAL ⁴ and TOTALDISCS ⁹
Track Number	Album Track	TRCK=Track Number/Track Total	"	TRACKNUMBER ^S ¹ ²
Track Total		TRCK=Track Number/Track Total	"	TRACKTOTAL ⁴ and TOTALTRACKS ⁹
Chapter start time				CHAPTERxxx ⁵

Flags

Compilation		TCMP	TCMP	COMPILATION ^S ⁶

IDs

ISRC		TSRC	TSRC	ISRC ^S ¹ ²
EAN				EAN/UPN ^S ²
Product Number				PRODUCTNUMBER ⁴
AccurateRip Disc ID				ACCURATERIPDISCID ^S ⁶
AccurateRip Result				ACCURATERIPRESULT ^S ⁶
Barcode ⁹		TXXX:BARCODE	TXXX:BARCODE	BARCODE ⁹
Catalogue Number		TXXX:CATALOGNUMBER ⁹	TXXX:CATALOGNUMBER ⁹	CATALOGUE # ^{6^{/ CATALOGNUMBER ⁹}}
UPC				UPC ⁶
MusicBrainz IDs ⁹		Various	Various	Various

URLs

Audio Source Webpage URL ⁷		WOAS	WOAS
Chapter URL ⁵				CHAPTERxxxURL
Commercial Information URL ⁷		WCOM	WCOM
Copyright URL		WCOP	WCOP
File Webpage URL ⁷		WOAF	WOAF
Track Artist Web Page URL ⁷		WOAR	WOAR
Internet Radio Webpage URL		WORS	WORS
Payment URL ⁷		WPAY	WPAY
Publisher URL ⁷		TPUB	TPUB

Style

Genre	Genre (80 or 126)	TCON (not multiples!)	TCON	GENRE ^M ¹ ²
Beats Per Minute ⁷		TBPM	TBPM
Initial Key		TKEY	TKEY
Mood ⁸		TMOO	TMOO	MOOD ⁹
Style				STYLE ^M ⁶

Other

Comments	Comment (28 chars)	COMM	COMM	COMMENT ^M ²
Contact				CONTACT ¹
Copyright Message		TCOP	TCOP	COPYRIGHT ^S ¹ ²
Cover Art				COVERART ³ depreciated
(Release?) Date		TYER+TDAT	TDRC	DATE ^M ¹ ²
Year	Year (4 chars)	TYER	part of TDRC	part of DATE
Description				DESCRIPTION ¹
Encoded By		TENC	TENC	ENCODED-BY ^S ² ³ ⁴
Encoder				ENCODER ³ ⁴
Encoder Settings		TSSE	TSSE	ENCODER SETTINGS ^S ⁶
Encoding				ENCODING ^S ²
Encoding Time ⁸			TDEN
File Type ⁸		TFLT	TFLT
Instrument		INSTRUMENT ⁶	with performer?	see 9
Label		⁹ maps to TPUB CHECK!		LABEL ^S ²
Label Number				LABELNO ^S ²
Language ⁷		TLAN	TLAN
Length ⁸		TLEN	TLEN
License		WCOP (single URL) / TXXX:LICENSE (multiple or non-URL) ⁹		LICENSE ^S ¹ ²
Location				LOCATION ^M ¹ ²
Media Type ⁷ / Release Format ⁹		TMED ⁷	TMED	MEDIA ⁹
Cover Art		APIC	APIC	METADATA_BLOCK_PICTURE ³ ⁴
Opus				OPUS ^S ²
Original Album ⁷		TOAL	TOAL
Original Artist ⁷		TOPE	TOPE
Original Filename ⁸		TOFN	TOFN
Original Lyricist ⁸		TOLY	TOLY
Original Release Date ⁷		TORY (year)	TDOR (time?)	ORIGINALDATE ⁹
(File) Owner ⁷		TOWN	TOWN
Part				PART ^M ²
Part Number				PARTNUMBER ^M ²
Period				PERIOD ⁶
Podcast ⁸		PCST	PCST
Podcast Category ⁸		TCAT	TCAT
Podcast Description ⁸		TDES	TDES
Podcast ID ⁸		TGID	TGID
Podcast URL ⁸		WFED	WFED
Popularimeter ⁸ or Rating ⁹		POPM	POPM	RATING:user@email ⁹
Radio Station ⁷		TRSN	TRSN
Radio Station Owner ⁷		TRSO	TRSO
Radio Station URL ⁸		WORS	WORS
Recording Dates ⁷		TRDA	TXXX ⁷
Release Date ⁷			TDRL (release time)
ReplayGain Album Gain		TXXX:REPLAYGAIN_ALBUM_GAIN	"	REPLAYGAIN_ALBUM_GAIN ^S ³
ReplayGain Album Peak		TXXX:REPLAYGAIN_ALBUM_PEAK	"	REPLAYGAIN_ALBUM_PEAK ^S ³
ReplayGain Track Gain		TXXX:REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN	"	REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN ^S ³
ReplayGain Track Peak		TXXX:REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_PEAK	"	REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_PEAK ^S ³
Rating				RATING ⁶
Rights				RIGHTS ³ proposed
Set Subtitle ⁷		TSST	TSST
Source				SOURCE ⁶
Source Media				SOURCEMEDIA ^S ² ⁴
Tagging Time ⁸			TDTG
Unsynced Lyrics ⁷		USLT	USLT	LYRICS ⁹
Version				VERSION ^S ¹ ²

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