# How to add custom tags to albums?

**URL:** https://community.metabrainz.org/t/how-to-add-custom-tags-to-albums/670997
**Category:** MusicBrainz Picard
**Tags:** en, picard, musicbrainz
**Created:** [December 20, 2023, 7:33am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/how-to-add-custom-tags-to-albums/670997 "2023-12-20T07:33:11Z")
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### Author: ![rhetticent](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/rhetticent/32/50118_2.png) [@rhetticent](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/rhetticent)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2023, 11:03pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/how-to-add-custom-tags-to-albums/670997/4 "2023-12-20T23:03:45Z")

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> [@GageTolin](#):
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> I’d like to add a custom tag for which country an artist is from

Not sure if this is 100% what you’re trying to do, but the following post might be helpful:

> [@Possibility to tag by artist "area"? (Artist country of origin)](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/possibility-to-tag-by-artist-area-artist-country-of-origin/596808/8):
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> Part of the issue with providing the country information is that it requires a number of recursive calls to the MusicBrainz api to drill down the information. This can cause significant delays in loading an album from MusicBrainz, especially when there are a large number of album or track artists such as you might find on a [Various Artists] release. I took this as a challenge, and have created a plugin for Picard that provides detailed artist information in a series of new variables. This is…

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