# Album Aliases - Can Picard map an existing alias for a locale and use that instead?
**URL:** https://community.metabrainz.org/t/album-aliases-can-picard-map-an-existing-alias-for-a-locale-and-use-that-instead/813649
**Category:** MusicBrainz Picard
**Tags:** picard
**Created:** [October 31, 2025, 1:39am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/album-aliases-can-picard-map-an-existing-alias-for-a-locale-and-use-that-instead/813649 "2025-10-31T01:39:24Z")
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### Author:  [@Tenome](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/Tenome)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2025, 1:39am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/album-aliases-can-picard-map-an-existing-alias-for-a-locale-and-use-that-instead/813649/1 "2025-10-31T01:39:24Z")
I searched, but didn’t see anyone ask this (or the search just sucks).
I have a JP album, with an English alias available. I don’t want to make a pseudo-release. Can Picard pull an existing alias from Musicbrainz and map it, like it can do with artists?
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### Author:  [@outsidecontext](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/outsidecontext)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2025, 12:09pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/album-aliases-can-picard-map-an-existing-alias-for-a-locale-and-use-that-instead/813649/2 "2025-11-09T12:09:57Z")
No, not currently possible. But there has been a recent code contribution that would enable translations of release and track titles similar to how artist names can be translated based on aliases. So this will come in one of the future versions.
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### Author:  [@Tenome](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/Tenome)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2025, 1:41am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/album-aliases-can-picard-map-an-existing-alias-for-a-locale-and-use-that-instead/813649/3 "2025-12-31T01:41:49Z")
That’s good to hear. I have **2.14.0.dev1 (120-51fdea8c.20251230020319),** is it included in there?
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### Author:  [@outsidecontext](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/outsidecontext)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2025, 6:55am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/album-aliases-can-picard-map-an-existing-alias-for-a-locale-and-use-that-instead/813649/4 "2025-12-31T06:55:27Z")
No, it will be in Picard 3
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### Author:  [@majkinetor](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/majkinetor)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2026, 5:06pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/album-aliases-can-picard-map-an-existing-alias-for-a-locale-and-use-that-instead/813649/5 "2026-08-23T17:06:43Z")
@outsidecontext, not sure what are the plans for Picard 3 regarding the input, so I thought to add aliases to [Falcon](https://github.com/majkinetor/musicbrainz-userscripts/blob/main/userscripts/falcon/README.md#aliases).
You could quickly enter localization for any release using this procedure:
1. Open release and use Falcon 'Add from.." button to add current page recordings and release
2. Enter alias for each recording and release itself in UI by hand or export JSON, [give to AI](https://claude.ai/share/0bc697e6-6c2c-4757-b387-fa145274043e) and let it translate it.
3. Submit it
Test: [https://test.musicbrainz.org/release/24c5e236-28cd-46d6-b896-43c0de0b888f](https://test.musicbrainz.org/release/24c5e236-28cd-46d6-b896-43c0de0b888f)
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### Author:  [@majkinetor](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/majkinetor)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2026, 3:04pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/album-aliases-can-picard-map-an-existing-alias-for-a-locale-and-use-that-instead/813649/6 "2026-08-25T15:04:01Z")
Tried it in Picard 3 beta, it works:
