# How to add Greatest Hits/Compilation Album

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-add-greatest-hits-compilation-album/15530>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [February 23, 2014, 4:12pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-add-greatest-hits-compilation-album/15530 "2014-02-23T16:12:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Red\_Headbanger](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/aca169/32.png) [@Red\_Headbanger](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Red_Headbanger)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2014, 4:12pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-add-greatest-hits-compilation-album/15530/1 "2014-02-23T16:12:53Z")

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I have one MP3 song belonging to, let's say, album1. The same artist of album1 put this song on album2, which is a compilation album of the greatest hits. Anyway, there's one song belonging to many albums, and I don't know how to add this song to the compilation album, without having to get exact same versions of the song with different tags.

Detail: On album1, this song is number 7. On album2, this song is number 2. I also want to tag it with different numbers.

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**Author:** ![chrishirst](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@chrishirst](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chrishirst)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2014, 4:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-add-greatest-hits-compilation-album/15530/2 "2014-02-23T16:20:50Z")

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Change the track field.

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**Author:** ![pone](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/pone/32/272_2.png) [@pone](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/pone)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2014, 4:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-add-greatest-hits-compilation-album/15530/3 "2014-02-23T16:21:54Z")

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> [@Red Headbanger](#):
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> I have one MP3 song belonging to, let's say, album1. The same artist of album1 put this song on album2, which is a compilation album of the greatest hits. Anyway, there's one song belonging to many albums, and I don't know how to add this song to the compilation album, without having to get exact same versions of the song with different tags.
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> Detail: On album1, this song is number 7. On album2, this song is number 2. I also want to tag it with different numbers.

Try:  
ALBUM:  
album1\\album2

TRACK:  
7\\2

This gives you a multivalue tag fields. But it depends on your mediaplayer if that is diplayer correctly. And for the tracknumber, it's not possible for any mediaplayer to detect what number belongs to what album.

Personally I would keep both files, each for one album.

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**Author:** ![Red\_Headbanger](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/aca169/32.png) [@Red\_Headbanger](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Red_Headbanger)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 12:53am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-add-greatest-hits-compilation-album/15530/4 "2014-02-24T00:53:35Z")

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Didn't work. I'll keep both files then.

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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, 12:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-add-greatest-hits-compilation-album/15530/5 "2026-02-09T12:24:56Z")

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Closed on February 9, 2026, 12:24pm UTC