# Change Album Title to artist name?
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/change-album-title-to-artist-name/16828
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [April 13, 2015, 5:56pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/change-album-title-to-artist-name/16828 "2015-04-13T17:56:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@tim3342](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/tim3342)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2015, 5:56pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/change-album-title-to-artist-name/16828/1 "2015-04-13T17:56:26Z")
So I am a newbie and need some help. My Jukebox software reads the tag info and will display my songs by album only. I would prefer to have the music display by artist instead. The only way I can figure to do this is to change the Album field to display the artists name. I need to do this as a batch edit to 24000 songs. Please help!
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### Author:  [@poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/poster)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2015, 2:44am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/change-album-title-to-artist-name/16828/2 "2015-04-14T02:44:56Z")
My opinion is not to mess the tags for a software that doesn't fill your needs.
Software comes and goes but your tags, if they are correct, are precious and hard work to get right.
If you nevertheless want to do it you should at least preserve the album information in a user-defined tag, ie. ALBUMSAVE, so that you can get it back in the future.
So combine 2 actions in an action group, which will make the changes in a row.
1. Action
Type: Format Value
Field: ALBUMSAVE
Format String: %album%
2. Action
Type: Format Value
Field: ALBUM
Format String: %artist%
My advice:
Always test actions on a playfield before messing your tags.
So **copy** a part of your mp3s to a seperate folder and test if these actions fill your needs and have a look at what your jukebox-software does.
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### Author:  [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2015, 3:03am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/change-album-title-to-artist-name/16828/3 "2015-04-14T03:03:51Z")
> [@poster](#):
>
> My opinion is not to mess the tags for a software that doesn't fill your needs.Software comes and goes but your tags, if they are correct, are precious and hard work to get right.
> If you nevertheless want to do it you should at least preserve the album information in a user-defined tag, ie. ALBUMSAVE, so that you can get it back in the future. ... Always test actions on a playfield before messing your tags.
To prevent the user against further damages of the tag-fields,
without wanting to do it, ...
the first action should be modified to ...
Field: ALBUMSAVE
Formatstring: **$if2(%ALBUMSAVE%,%ALBUM%)**
DD.20150414.0707.CEST
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### Author:  [@tim3342](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/tim3342)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2015, 6:30am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/change-album-title-to-artist-name/16828/4 "2015-04-14T06:30:54Z")
> [@poster](#):
>
> My opinion is not to mess the tags for a software that doesn't fill your needs.
> Software comes and goes but your tags, if they are correct, are precious and hard work to get right.
>
> If you nevertheless want to do it you should at least preserve the album information in a user-defined tag, ie. ALBUMSAVE, so that you can get it back in the future.
> So combine 2 actions in an action group, which will make the changes in a row.
>
> 1. Action
> Type: Format Value
> Field: ALBUMSAVE
> Format String: %album%
>
> 2. Action
> Type: Format Value
> Field: ALBUM
> Format String: %artist%
>
> My advice:
> Always test actions on a playfield before messing your tags.
> So **copy** a part of your mp3s to a seperate folder and test if these actions fill your needs and have a look at what your jukebox-software does.
Thank you so much for the help! I created a separate file for the jukebox files and moved them there. And these were the files i updated. The originals are still available untouched if I need them. As for the jukebox, it looks great! Thanks once again!