# Add Artist to album tag

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/add-artist-to-album-tag/4453
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [February 11, 2007, 7:21am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/add-artist-to-album-tag/4453 "2007-02-11T07:21:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![KaraokeK](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@KaraokeK](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/KaraokeK)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2007, 7:21am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/add-artist-to-album-tag/4453/1 "2007-02-11T07:21:39Z")

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When using my Ipod I found having 27 “Best of” albums listed was a tad confusing. I now add the artist name to all the album tags – “Frank Sinatra – Best of”.

When starting to tag I would have tags  
%title% (My Way) - %artist% (Frank Sinatra) - %album% (Best of)  
Is there a quick way to add the artist tag to the album tag?

At the moment I use convert tag to filename, say, “My Way – Frank Sinatra – Best of”  
(This, in some cases, can make for a very long filename)  
and use convert filename to tag “%dummy% - %album%”  
Then I use convert tag to filename to rename filename “My Way – Frank Sinatra”

I’m sure there is a, one click, quicker way.

Thanks, in advance.

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### Author: ![Sebastian\_Mares](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/sebastian_mares/32/9285_2.png) [@Sebastian\_Mares](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Sebastian_Mares)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2007, 8:11am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/add-artist-to-album-tag/4453/2 "2007-02-11T08:11:24Z")

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### Author: ![KaraokeK](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@KaraokeK](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/KaraokeK)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2007, 11:50am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/add-artist-to-album-tag/4453/3 "2007-02-11T11:50:19Z")

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Thanks for that.  
So I made new action:

Action = Format Value  
Field = Album  
Format string = %artist% - %album%

Works a treat (guess you knew that 😉 )

Thanks again

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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, 12:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/add-artist-to-album-tag/4453/4 "2026-02-09T12:20:09Z")

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