# Cloning fields

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cloning-fields/13465
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 22, 2012, 12:46pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cloning-fields/13465 "2012-05-22T12:46:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![Carbon6](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Carbon6](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Carbon6)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2012, 12:46pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cloning-fields/13465/1 "2012-05-22T12:46:27Z")

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Hi,

As usual, much confusion with ALBUMARTIST & ALBUM ARTIST.  
Tagged many FLAC albums with MusicBrainz Picard which writes album artist to ALBUMARTIST  
But it seems the _cough_ Standard _cough_ for album artist has shifted to ALBUM ARTIST, & ALBUMARTIST is for Band/Orchestra.......

I only recently learned this while wondering why I had so many tagging inconsistencies while using MusicBee. Blank Album Artist fields and so-on.

So, I was hoping....  
someone could help me with an action to move all data from ALBUMARTIST field, to ALBUM ARTIST field?  
I did have a search, and found some suggestions, but I need a _idiot proof_ solution for obvious reasons ![:rolleyes:](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/1X/3a79e8b0b7d169b30216785521d7c6f4f895c421.gif ":rolleyes:")

Cheers 🙂

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### Author: ![DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/detlevd/32/123_2.png) [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2012, 2:32pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cloning-fields/13465/2 "2012-05-22T14:32:18Z")

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> [@Robba](#):
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> ... confusion with ALBUMARTIST & ALBUM ARTIST. ... So, I was hoping....  
> someone could help me with an action to move all data from ALBUMARTIST field, to ALBUM ARTIST field? ...

Why don't you fill both tag-fields ALBUMARTIST and ALBUM ARTIST with the same value?

Use an action "Format value" to write a value into a tag-field.  
Read there ...  
[Actions](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/967/15)

Read there about the tag-fields and tag-field mapping in Mp3tag ...  
[https://docs.mp3tag.de/mapping](https://docs.mp3tag.de/mapping)

DD.20120522.1832.CEST

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### Author: ![Carbon6](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Carbon6](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Carbon6)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2012, 2:49pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cloning-fields/13465/3 "2012-05-22T14:49:31Z")

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Cool, thank you! 🙂

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### Author: ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cloning-fields/13465/4 "2026-02-09T12:23:51Z")

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