# Album Artist problem

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-artist-problem/12366
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 4, 2011, 10:45pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-artist-problem/12366 "2011-08-04T22:45:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![Quartermass](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/q/3bc359/32.png) [@Quartermass](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Quartermass)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2011, 10:45pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-artist-problem/12366/1 "2011-08-04T22:45:48Z")

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I get this in XBMC

![](http://halk.lyrebird.feralhosting.com/music.png)

XBMC needs the Album Artist tag to be set right.

I've checked that it appears to be set correctly in MP3Tag.

![](http://halk.lyrebird.feralhosting.com/xbmctags.png)

However it doesn't work as expected, so I tried to determine what the problem was, and in Foobar2000 I found the answer.

![](http://halk.lyrebird.feralhosting.com/answer.png)

How do I get MP3Tag to set the actual "Album Artist" field and not an extra field that XBMC (or anything else) would ignore?

Thanks!

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### Author: ![JJ\_Johnson](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/jj_johnson/32/67_2.png) [@JJ\_Johnson](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/JJ_Johnson)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2011, 10:52pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-artist-problem/12366/2 "2011-08-04T22:52:31Z")

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What do you see in Mp3tag's Extended Tags dialog for that same file?

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### Author: ![Quartermass](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/q/3bc359/32.png) [@Quartermass](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Quartermass)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2011, 11:05pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-artist-problem/12366/3 "2011-08-04T23:05:12Z")

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And I think I've got a workaround going! 🙂

I've added a field called Album Artist, and I've based it on "ALBUM ARTIST". I have then added it as a custom column in the display. I've then amended the old Album Artist field which was based on ALBUMARTIST to be Album Artist OLD and also in the columns display.

Now I can see what everything else sees, and I'll be able to fix it.

I hope it helps anyone else who has the same problem!

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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, 12:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-artist-problem/12366/4 "2026-02-09T12:23:15Z")

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