# Album Artist Confusion

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-artist-confusion/48068>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [March 3, 2020, 3:48pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-artist-confusion/48068 "2020-03-03T15:48:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2020, 6:14am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-artist-confusion/48068/10 "2020-03-05T06:14:18Z")

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> [@vilsen](#):
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> Starting from scratch though, you should use ALBUMARTIST (unless you encounter problems, which should be rare).

Here is a thread that discusses more all the virtues and drawbacks of the different naming schemes and how to cope with them:

> [@\[X\] FLAC Album Artist](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-flac-album-artist/13177/):
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> Using FLAC I found that MP3Tag won't show the Album-Interpret though the tag is available. This is caused by a faulty mapping. The correct mapping tag would be ALBUMARTIST. You can resolve this issue by adding a user defined mapping. Go Options-\>Tags-\>Mapping and add: VorbisComment ALBUM ARTIST ALBUMARTIST Now this overrules the built in mapping.

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