# Artist vs. Contributing Artist vs. Album Artist

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/artist-vs-contributing-artist-vs-album-artist/60294
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 6, 2023, 7:53pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/artist-vs-contributing-artist-vs-album-artist/60294 "2023-03-06T19:53:35Z")
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### Author: ![LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/c6cbf5/32.png) [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2023, 7:31am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/artist-vs-contributing-artist-vs-album-artist/60294/15 "2023-03-08T07:31:40Z")

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> [@MotleyG](#):
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> The "Contributing Artists" column here is exactly what is in the `Artist` field in mp3tag

"Contributing artists" is another case, where the Windows File Explorer misleads people with his strange column and tag descriptions:

> [@Additional research results for the topic "Make tag fields readable by Windows Explorer"](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/additional-research-results-for-the-topic-make-tag-fields-readable-by-windows-explorer/54062/4):
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> This are the english Windows file Explorer column names for the ID3 tags he can read from a mp3: Note: Some column names were translated really bad into German: crazy_face 246 - Initial key -\> Ursprünglicher Schlüssel (should be something like "[Vorzeichen](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorzeichen_(Musik))" in german music language)

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