# Album Artist VS. Artist **URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-artist-vs-artist/12774 **Category:** Support **Created:** [December 3, 2011, 6:38pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-artist-vs-artist/12774 "2011-12-03T18:38:43Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 1
### Author: ![chevellejnj72](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@chevellejnj72](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chevellejnj72) #### Post date: [December 3, 2011, 6:38pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-artist-vs-artist/12774/1 "2011-12-03T18:38:43Z")
I apologize in advance if this has been covered a ton of times but I could not find it via searching. I have just started making a brand new music library and I wish to have all of the correct information which is why i started using mp3tags which by the way, I am very thankful for. My sister has an iPod and I have an Android. My goal is to have one entry per field. Meaning I do not want to go to artist on any device and have 10 entries for the same artist despite who else sing on that track. To my understanding, Album Artist is the artist in which the album is under. Meaning if it its Aerosmith's CD, Aerosmith goes under Album Artist and no one else despite who else sings on the album. The Artist field then would be whatever artist is singing on that track like Drake feat. lil Wayne. From putting music on my Droid and my sisters iPod it appears to be backward. the Droid works one way but in order to get the iPod right, you need to reverse Album Artist and Artist. Can anyone shed some light onto this?? I am very close to just putting the main artist in both fields to avoid this non-sense but i am very anal and want to have it the correct way. Also, is there an easy way to switch data from column to column. Meaning can I have the program swap the contents in Album Artist and Artist without having to manually do it? Also I've recently started using this program so I am looking for new features on it. I dont really know any besides TagSources --\> MusicBrainz --- _[View the full topic](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-artist-vs-artist/12774)._