# Album Artist problems

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-artist-problems/12857
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [December 24, 2011, 10:43am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-artist-problems/12857 "2011-12-24T10:43:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![TerryB](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/cab0a1/32.png) [@TerryB](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/TerryB)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2011, 10:43am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-artist-problems/12857/1 "2011-12-24T10:43:14Z")

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I am having problems with Album Artist since upgrading to 2.49a. I can't manually change album artists. I highlight a track, enter an album artist (usually 'various') in the field, and nothing saves. I can auto fill from artist by using 'customize columns' and selecting value-artist, but my old quick action for album artist = %artist% doesn't work. Another funny thing, when I highlight a track, the old album artist that I tagged with the previous version shows in the left side column album artist field, but not in the AlbArt for the main index, if you get what I mean.

I've added a screenshot if that helps.

Thanks,

Terry B

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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: [December 24, 2011, 11:30am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-artist-problems/12857/2 "2011-12-24T11:30:18Z")

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For flac files a field ALBUM ARTIST or ALBUMARTIST can be used to indicate the "Album Artist"  
So check in the columns, Actions and in "Options \> Tag panel" if it is with or without a space.  
Change the settings so all your columns/actions use the same.

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### Author: ![TerryB](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/cab0a1/32.png) [@TerryB](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/TerryB)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2011, 12:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-artist-problems/12857/3 "2011-12-24T12:19:27Z")

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Everything's fine there, and the problem happens on both FLAC and MP3 files. All was fine before upgrading to 2.49.

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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-problems/12857/4 "2026-02-09T12:23:32Z")

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