# WMA tags

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wma-tags/14412
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [January 31, 2013, 5:59pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wma-tags/14412 "2013-01-31T17:59:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![Kevin04](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/bc79bd/32.png) [@Kevin04](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Kevin04)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2013, 5:59pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wma-tags/14412/1 "2013-01-31T17:59:33Z")

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Hello,

according to [https://docs.mp3tag.de/mapping](https://docs.mp3tag.de/mapping), LYRICIST is currently not mapped to any WMA attribute. However, there seems to be an official attribute [WM/Writer](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd758024(v=vs.85).aspx) for this.  
Now, I tried to map WM/Writer to LYRICIST, but that doesn't change anything. Regardless if it's mapped or not, I get the same file if I tag LYRICIST. However, if I map it differently (e.g. XXXXX to LYRICIST), I get a differing file.  
So it seems like this mapping is already built-in Mp3tag. Has this been forgotten in the documentation?

One more thing. I don't know how WMA tags are internally stored/encoded in the file, it doesn't look human-readable when looking at it with a hex editor.  
If I map a WMA attribute not supported by Mp3tag to another field, will it still be written according to the specification? I'd like to map WM/OriginalReleaseTime to ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE (a custom tag field I use). Or does this end up like a custom attribute, similar to the ID3v2 TXXX-frame?

Thanks.

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### Author: ![dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/dano/32/6_2.png) [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2013, 8:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wma-tags/14412/2 "2013-01-31T20:27:56Z")

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Yes LYRICIST -\> WM/Writer is only missing in the help file.

> [@Kevin04](#):
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> If I map a WMA attribute not supported by Mp3tag to another field, will it still be written according to the specification?

It seems to work. The wma attributes are case sensitive, but the mapping takes take of that.

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### Author: ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wma-tags/14412/3 "2026-02-09T12:24:18Z")

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