I like to use Various and not Various Artists for the Album Artist tag. Using Alt-T: [mp3tag-alt-t] Main screen: [mp3tag-main-screen] VLC: [mp3tag-vlc] As you can see, on the main screen (and also in the column at the right) it is just Various. How do I get rid of the Artists?

[image] donwiss: How do I get rid of the Artists? ALBUM ARTIST and ALBUMARTIST are two completely different tag fields, like ARTIST or TITLE. If you want to see "Various" in the tag field ALBUM ARTIST I would suggest: 1.) Delete all your ALBUMARTIST tag fields containing "Various" 2.) Repl…

Of course, they are different fields. I don't care if both appear. The ALBUMARTIST is now okay. I have already replaced "Various Artists" in the ALBUM ARTIST tag fields with "Various." Which mp3tag shows. It just doesn't appear in VLC. Or is mp3tag mapping the Album Artist to ALBUMARTIST. Looking …

[image] donwiss: It just doesn't appear in VLC. According to ID3 - VideoLAN Wiki VLC only reads very few tags. Album Artist (in any form) isn't available. Where did you get the VLC informations in your screenshot in the initial post with ALBUMARTIST, ALBUM ARTIST or DISCNUMBER? If I press C…

After clicking Ctrl-J, then click the Metadata tab. It shows all the others. This is the easiest way to see them all, though some appear duplicated. I only have FLAC files.

[image] donwiss: I only have FLAC files. I don't use FLAC files. Could you provide your song with both ALBUM ARTIST/ALBUMARTIST visible in VLC, maybe with a download link by PM? According to Tag Field Mappings – Mp3tag Documentation "VorbisComments (used with FLAC, OGG, SPX) ... are not mapp…

The help then continues "unless they have a user-defned mapping". So check File>Options>Tags>Mapping whether you have mapped ALBUMARTIST and ALBUM ARTIST.

I was not familiar with that feature. I do not have that mapping. There are three mappings there, which I have to assume are there as defaults.

Can't you just remove the field you don't want to have or am I missing something?

That doesn't work. I'm moved on. But I now have a similar one. When there is only one disc, I don't want DISCNUMBER or TOTALDISCS. But when I blank them in Mp3Tag, they don't blank. They remain. This is the header, minus any non-ASCII characters: ID3cTIT2Night nurseTPE1Dennis BrownTALBDennis Brown …

Album Artist vs ALBUM ARTIST

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ohrenkino October 16, 2021, 5:12pm 11

Could it be that you have FLAC and ID3 tags (stacked on top of each other) in your flac files?
Then get rid of the ID3 tags. Only flac tags are supposed to be in flac files.