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  <listitem>
    <para>
      <varname>artist</varname>: the artist name.  Its meaning is not
      well-defined; see <varname>composer</varname> and
      <varname>performer</varname> for more specific tags.
    </para>
  </listitem>

  <listitem>
    <para>
      <varname>artistsort</varname>: same as
      <varname>artist</varname>, but for sorting.  This usually omits
      prefixes such as "The".
    </para>
  </listitem>

  <listitem>
    <para>
      <varname>album</varname>: the album name.
    </para>
  </listitem>

  <listitem>
    <para>
      <varname>albumsort</varname>: same as <varname>album</varname>,
      but for sorting.
    </para>
  </listitem>

  <listitem>
    <para>
      <varname>albumartist</varname>: on multi-artist albums, this is
      the artist name which shall be used for the whole album.  The
      exact meaning of this tag is not well-defined.
    </para>
  </listitem>

  <listitem>
    <para>
      <varname>albumartistsort</varname>: same as
      <varname>albumartist</varname>, but for sorting.
    </para>
  </listitem>

  <listitem>
    <para>
      <varname>title</varname>: the song title.
    </para>
  </listitem>

  <listitem>
    <para>
      <varname>track</varname>: the decimal track number within the
      album.
    </para>
  </listitem>

  <listitem>
    <para>
      <varname>name</varname>: a name for this song.  This is not the
      song title.  The exact meaning of this tag is not well-defined.
      It is often used by badly configured internet radio stations
      with broken tags to squeeze both the artist name and the song
      title in one tag.
    </para>
  </listitem>

  <listitem>
    <para>
      <varname>genre</varname>: the music genre.
    </para>
  </listitem>

  <listitem>
    <para>
      <varname>date</varname>: the song's release date.  This is
      usually a 4-digit year.
    </para>
  </listitem>

  <listitem>
    <para>
      <varname>composer</varname>: the artist who composed the song.
    </para>
  </listitem>

  <listitem>
    <para>
      <varname>performer</varname>: the artist who performed the song.
    </para>
  </listitem>

  <listitem>
    <para>
      <varname>comment</varname>: a human-readable comment about this
      song.  The exact meaning of this tag is not well-defined.
    </para>
  </listitem>

  <listitem>
    <para>
      <varname>disc</varname>: the decimal disc number in a multi-disc
      album.
    </para>
  </listitem>

  <listitem>
    <para>
      <varname>musicbrainz_artistid</varname>: the artist id in the
      <ulink
      url="http://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainzTag">MusicBrainz</ulink>
      database.
    </para>
  </listitem>

  <listitem>
    <para>
      <varname>musicbrainz_albumid</varname>: the album id in the
      <ulink
      url="http://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainzTag">MusicBrainz</ulink>
      database.
    </para>
  </listitem>

  <listitem>
    <para>
      <varname>musicbrainz_albumartistid</varname>: the album artist
      id in the <ulink
      url="http://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainzTag">MusicBrainz</ulink>
      database.
    </para>
  </listitem>

  <listitem>
    <para>
      <varname>musicbrainz_trackid</varname>: the track id in the
      <ulink
      url="http://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainzTag">MusicBrainz</ulink>
      database.
    </para>
  </listitem>

  <listitem>
    <para>
      <varname>musicbrainz_releasetrackid</varname>: the release track
      id in the <ulink
      url="http://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainzTag">MusicBrainz</ulink>
      database.
    </para>
  </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
