# ALBUM ARTIST as a "standard" tag

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-artist-as-a-standard-tag/4053
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [November 13, 2006, 4:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-artist-as-a-standard-tag/4053 "2006-11-13T16:19:06Z")
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### Author: ![bobkoure](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/65b543/32.png) [@bobkoure](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/bobkoure)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2006, 4:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-artist-as-a-standard-tag/4053/1 "2006-11-13T16:19:06Z")

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I noticed some while back that Foobar2000 encourages use of the tag "ALBUM ARTIST" to deal with the problem of "various artists" albums.  
[Foobar2000:Encouraged Tags](http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Foobar2000:Encouraged_Tag_Standards)  
I've added the tag to my Mp3Tag via options/preferences/tags - but I wonder if it makes sense to add this tag as one of the "standard" tags as a way to encourage its adoption as a standard (seems like tag ""standards" are all pretty much de-facto as they're defined by the applications that create/use the tags).

No hurry on this one - I'm not even sure it's the "right" thing to do...

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