# Show MusicBrainz Release Type and Release Status

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/show-musicbrainz-release-type-and-release-status/7595
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [December 9, 2008, 2:06pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/show-musicbrainz-release-type-and-release-status/7595 "2008-12-09T14:06:43Z")
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### Author: ![Moonbase](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/moonbase/32/207_2.png) [@Moonbase](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Moonbase)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2008, 2:06pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/show-musicbrainz-release-type-and-release-status/7595/1 "2008-12-09T14:06:43Z")

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If you are like me and and also heavily use MusicBrainz (and Picard/Mp3tag as a combo), you might want to display MusicBrainz’ _Release Type_ and _Release Status_ in your column view.

Right-click the column view header and select »Customize columns…«.

In the left pane, click _once_ on »Album« (be sure not to deselect it!) then click the [New] button.

Enter the following:  
Name: **MB Album Type**  
Value: **$if2(%musicbrainz album type%,$if2(%musicbrainz\_albumtype%,%releasetype%))**  
Field: (leave empty)  
Sort by: (leave empty)  
Numeric: [\_]

Click the [New] button again and enter the following:  
Name: **MB Album Status**  
Value: **$if2(%musicbrainz album status%,$if2(%musicbrainz\_albumstatus%,%releasestatus%))**  
Field: (leave empty)  
Sort by: (leave empty)  
Numeric: [\_]

Click the [OK] button.

Presto! Album Type and Album Status right next to your Album Name!

_(The reason for the IF construct is that MusicBrainz’ Picard Tagger stores values differently depending on file type. The above ensures it will work with MP3, FLAC, and OGG files.)_