# Artist to Album Artist
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/artist-to-album-artist/18216
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [September 2, 2016, 11:58am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/artist-to-album-artist/18216 "2016-09-02T11:58:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@vasileiosg](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/vasileiosg)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2016, 11:58am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/artist-to-album-artist/18216/1 "2016-09-02T11:58:41Z")
Hello,
I am new in MP3Tag. I must say that it looks very very amazing application. Anyway, I am using Plex for my music and it seems that it likes to have an Album Artist in order to show nice in the list. I would like to copy all my Artist field to the album Artist, for all the songs in my list. I am sure this is possible, but i have no idea how to make it happen...
Any ideas would be appreciated!
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### Author:  [@garym](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/garym)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2016, 2:39pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/artist-to-album-artist/18216/2 "2016-09-02T14:39:10Z")
1. load up all files in mp3tag, select all files
2. from mp3tag menu:
Convert \> tag to tag
select format string popup:
FIELD: ALBUM ARTIST
FORMAT STRING: %artist%
then hit OK.
Obviously test on a album or two before you do this to your complete collection as a batch.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2016, 4:49pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/artist-to-album-artist/18216/3 "2016-09-02T16:49:59Z")
> [@garym](#):
>
> ....FIELD: ALBUM ARTIST
> ...
AFAIK the field is called ALBUMARTIST without blank
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### Author:  [@garym](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/garym)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2016, 4:51pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/artist-to-album-artist/18216/4 "2016-09-02T16:51:58Z")
> [@ohrenkino](#):
>
> AFAIK the field is called ALBUMARTIST without blank
thanks. I get confused between ALBUM ARTIST, ALBUMARTIST between mp3tag, dbpoweramp, foobar2000, etc.
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### Author:  [@vasileiosg](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/vasileiosg)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2016, 7:54pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/artist-to-album-artist/18216/5 "2016-09-02T19:54:05Z")
Great stuff, thank you guys!
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### Author:  [@paul1](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/paul1)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2016, 10:56am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/artist-to-album-artist/18216/6 "2016-09-30T10:56:07Z")
> [@garym](#):
>
> 1. load up all files in mp3tag, select all files
> 2. from mp3tag menu:
> Convert \> tag to tag
> select format string popup:
> FIELD: ALBUM ARTIST
> FORMAT STRING: %artist%
> then hit OK.
>
> Obviously test on a album or two before you do this to your complete collection as a batch.
Hello
I tried to copy Tag Interpret to Composer - it did not work - see appendix.
What was wrong?
Thanks
[preview.txt](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/5/5aa0201e508dfd03c2fc6fd3766a14ba328e2e5b.txt) (1.41 KB)
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2016, 3:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/artist-to-album-artist/18216/7 "2016-10-01T15:20:48Z")
> [@pmj](#):
>
> Hello
>
> I tried to copy Tag Interpret to Composer - it did not work - see appendix.
> What was wrong?
>
> Thanks
Have you filled the user-defined field INTERPRET? Check the extended tags dialogue for that.
If you use a standard field for the artist, it is probable ARTIST or ALBUMARTIST.
See here for a list of field names: [https://docs.mp3tag.de/mapping](https://docs.mp3tag.de/mapping)
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### Author:  [@paul1](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/paul1)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2016, 4:44am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/artist-to-album-artist/18216/8 "2016-10-02T04:44:16Z")
> [@ohrenkino](#):
>
> Have you filled the user-defined field INTERPRET? Check the extended tags dialogue for that.
>
> If you use a standard field for the artist, it is probable ARTIST or ALBUMARTIST.
> See here for a list of field names: [https://docs.mp3tag.de/mapping](https://docs.mp3tag.de/mapping)
Hi
Thanks - one step foreward!
The colum Interpret is the artist field - I renamed now the colum
When I try to convert, the colum artist is emptied, but nothing arrives in composer.
Is there I further idee?
Paul
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### Author:  [@poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/poster)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2016, 5:29am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/artist-to-album-artist/18216/9 "2016-10-02T05:29:18Z")
> [@pmj](#):
>
> When I try to convert, the colum artist is emptied, but nothing arrives in composer.
Thats because you are writing the content of the composer-tag to the artist-tag.
As the composer-tag is empty, the artist-tag will get empty too.
You have to do it the other way round:
Field: COMPOSER
Format-String: %artist%
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### Author:  [@paul1](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/paul1)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2016, 7:42am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/artist-to-album-artist/18216/10 "2016-10-02T07:42:15Z")
> [@poster](#):
>
> Thats because you are writing the content of the composer-tag to the artist-tag.
> As the composer-tag is empty, the artist-tag will get empty too.
> You have to do it the other way round:
> Field: COMPOSER
> Format-String: %artist%
Hi
okay - that was not clever ......... ☹
It Works - thanks a lot! 
Paul
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/artist-to-album-artist/18216/11 "2026-02-09T12:26:24Z")