# %band% vs. %album artist%

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/band-vs-album-artist/9407
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [November 22, 2009, 9:13pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/band-vs-album-artist/9407 "2009-11-22T21:13:31Z")
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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 23, 2009, 9:33pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/band-vs-album-artist/9407/7 "2009-12-23T21:33:07Z")

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WMP also uses BAND (TPE2) on mp3. But foobar writes by default ID3v2.4 tags which WMP will not read at all.

When you add %album artist% in foobar2000 it writes a TXXX frame with the description "Album artist"

BAND (TPE2) is the most popular.

ALBUMARTIST is mainly used on flac.

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