# Change ALBUM value based on values of tags of other files of the same CD

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/change-album-value-based-on-values-of-tags-of-other-files-of-the-same-cd/18602
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [January 12, 2017, 12:54am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/change-album-value-based-on-values-of-tags-of-other-files-of-the-same-cd/18602 "2017-01-12T00:54:37Z")
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### Author: ![Peter1](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/a587f6/32.png) [@Peter1](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Peter1)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2017, 11:01am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/change-album-value-based-on-values-of-tags-of-other-files-of-the-same-cd/18602/5 "2017-01-12T11:01:32Z")

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Thanks for your help.  
I understand the next loops, but I see that what I want to do is not possible in MP3Tag, and will be quite straightforward in excel, so that's the route I'll take. Maybe you have seen my [other post](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/8093/14) explaining how I will do it (and with another question about the txt\>tag conversion)

I didn't know that the TAB character can be used both by excel an MP3Tag, so thanks for pointing that out; but pipe | seems just cleaner and I cannot confuse it with blanks or spaces or other non-printing characters. I am probably too old fashioned ... and too visually inclined to use TAB 😉

And I agree with your point about data integrity, and not misusing fields. But please note that the current values of the ALBUM and ARTIST fields are not the standard values from a database or meticulously copied from the CD cover. It is often already shorthand or just partial information, so I don't feel that I violate a high-integrity data field with unstructured data. And in any case, I keep the initial data unchanged in the two ORIG- fields in my tag structure of all songs, so all changes I make are fully reversible (if I want to do that in the future). It is indeed a way of working for convenience and a preference to make it easier to do things in iTunes.

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