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Vorbis tag, MUSICBRAINS_ALBUMTYPE vs RELEASETYPE

#1

Here’s my issue: In Plex, I started noticing groups in my library like ‘Compilations’ where I was unsure if they were actually compilations. I looked into it and I see that Plex is looking for the RELEASETYPE tag. Jaikoz has a Release Type column but after editing it and seeing no changes in Plex, I see that Jaikoz is using the MUSICBRAINS_ALBUMTYPE tag, as evidenced here.

It looks like RELEASETYPE is more commonly accepted and what I need to sort out Plex. Is there a way to work around this?

BTW, in 12.6, with no files loaded, right click on a column header>Select Column throws an “Unexpected problem” error.

#2

Hi, within Jaikoz you cannot currently create custom fields so there is not a way to copy the value from MUSICBRAINZ_ALBUMTYPE to RELEASETYPE, but you could use another tool to do this.

Thanks, replicated problem and raised issue

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#3

Yeah, Picard uses RELEASETYPE. I’ll use that.
Thx Paul.

#4

Oh does it?

I’m using what I’m using to match Picard so maybe need to change.

#5

Ok so its seems it does use this for VorbisComment/Flac, it’s confusing because its completely different to what they use for all other formats.

Picard Release Type

Internal Name releasetype
ID3v2 TXXX:MusicBrainz Album Type
Vorbis RELEASETYPE
APEv2 MUSICBRAINZ_ALBUMTYPE
iTunes MP4 ----:com.apple.iTunes:MusicBrainz Album Type
ASF/Windows Media MusicBrainz/Album Type
RIFF INFO n/a

I have raised an issue for Jaikoz and SongKong

#6

Haha, wow, even better! I’ll wait for the next update to do some cleanup.

SongKong 12.4 Bloom Released 17th April 2026
#7

Now fixed in SongKong 12.4