How to change (add) only mood with Picard-Last.fm.ng

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@Clonimus74

1. The existing tags get overwritten

Maybe see the discussion on:

Possible to disable most tag cathegories? keep only artist, song, release date

Hi! Picard is great. But for my needs it fills in waaay to many not so interesting tags in the mp3s. i have fixed to only write the file-names with only artist and song name. this works great now. but, when it comes to the tags, i would like it to NEVER add the almost 20 tags with codes, signatures, track-numbers ids and god knows what. i would like it to only add, artist, song, release date and NOTHING more. (extra: it would be great if it could delete any other entries that that if there …

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Original Release Date

Sorry it seems there are two questions that I’m asking: How do I get the original or earliest release date for a song? The metadata crawlers is bringing back the current release date. If I only want to update the field/attribute original release date and not title, artist etc - how do I do that? thanks much!

In short: You can unset some variables you don’t want to write or mark variables as not to be changed / overwritten. But in general Picard is designed to tag your files with data from MusicBrainz.org and is not very well suited for updating only a single tag. And as I have written in the other tags I would advise you to keep the MusicBrainz IDs.

@Clonimus74

2. Sometimes the wrong number of files is detected (the database MusicBrains Picard uses recognizes the album has more songs than I have in my release)

I think you should learn a bit on how to tag with Picard. Have a look at http://picard.musicbrainz.org/docs/guide/ , this shows you how to do the usual Cluster + Lookup search, which often provides the best results. If Picard loaded the wrong edition of your album you can right click on the album and choose the correct one in “Other versions…”. Or you search manually in the database, see Loading releases from musicbrainz.org into Picard

And if all fails please add your data to MusicBrainz to improve it for everyone.

@Clonimus74

3. MP3Tag shows “MOOD” tag field and Picard-Last.fm.ng plugin creates “Mood” tag field that I cannot see in MP3Tag

I am neither using Picard-Last.fm.ng nor MP3Tag, but Tag Field Mappings – Mp3tag Documentation su
ggests MP3Tag does not support the mood tag for all file formats. What format are you tagging? And in case of MP3 it is only supported for ID3 v2.4, so make sure to configure Picard accordingly in Options > Tags