Display MusicBrainz info in foobar2000

Thu, 13 Nov 2014 09:08:15 +0000

I’ve been cleaning up my music library the past few days (well, I bought a Sonos 😀), so here’s how you display for example the tagging field MUSICBRAINZ ALBUM TYPE in foobar2000’s default metadata view.

Goto preferences (Ctrl+P or File->Preferences)
Navigate to Advanced
Extend the Display node, extend Properties Dialoge node
There you’ll find the option for Standard fields
Change it to the following:

Artist Name=ARTIST;Track Title=TITLE;Album Title=ALBUM;Date=DATE;Genre=GENRE;Composer=COMPOSER;Performer=PERFORMER;Album Artist=ALBUM ARTIST;Track Number=TRACKNUMBER;Total Tracks=TOTALTRACKS;Disc Number=DISCNUMBER;Total Discs=TOTALDISCS;Comment=COMMENT;Album Type=MUSICBRAINZ ALBUM TYPE

After changing the Standard fields option, the metadata view will look like this:

Musicbrainz on BAFM

Display MusicBrainz info in foobar2000