# HowTo fix "Various Artists" to "Various" for Discogs search "ARTIST and ALBUM"

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/howto-fix-various-artists-to-various-for-discogs-search-artist-and-album/66601
**Category:** Web Sources Discussion
**Created:** [November 22, 2024, 7:00pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/howto-fix-various-artists-to-various-for-discogs-search-artist-and-album/66601 "2024-11-22T19:00:53Z")
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### Author: ![make-nz](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/make-nz/32/18236_2.png) [@make-nz](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/make-nz)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2024, 7:00pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/howto-fix-various-artists-to-various-for-discogs-search-artist-and-album/66601/1 "2024-11-22T19:00:53Z")

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For me it has allways been and will be "Various Artists" for the tag Albumartist, not just "Various".

Now, for Discogs search "ARTIST and ALBUM" you are out of luck with "Various Artists" and you get:  
 ![grafik](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/3X/3/2/32c3d7c9daffd33f5ba5d38c024552b62052326b.png)

To fix this, insert a simple replace in

> AppData\Roaming\Mp3tag\data\sources\Discogs Artist + Album.src

```auto
#[SearchBy]=Artist||$if2(%albumartist%,%artist%)||&artist=%s||Album||%album%||&release_title=%s
[SearchBy]=Artist||$if2($replace(%albumartist%,Various Artists,Various),%artist%)||&artist=%s||Album||%album%||&release_title=%s

```

If your Albumartist tags are a bit messed up, well fix it to whatever you like and change the _replace_ accordingly.  
If you use some kind of structured Albumartist like "Various Artists", "Various Artists Italian", "Various Artists German"… a _regex_ could do the trick.

Or quick and dirty, just replace any Albumartist tag with "Various Artists" and created your own

> Discogs Various Artist + Album.src

```auto
[SearchBy]=Artist||$if2($replace(%albumartist%,%albumartist%,Various),%artist%)||&artist=%s||Album||%album%||&release_title=%s

```

Fixed:

 ![grafik](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/3X/c/9/c9980f04363b39b7060be5355d666c5bd1fa84b9.png)

Let me know if I missed something.  
Hope this helps.

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### Author: ![musifant](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/f0a364/32.png) [@musifant](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/musifant)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2026, 2:13pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/howto-fix-various-artists-to-various-for-discogs-search-artist-and-album/66601/2 "2026-06-05T14:13:55Z")

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Wow!  
Thanks SO VERY MUCH!  
This issue was annoying the crap out of me and you just presented such a simple elegant fix 🙂

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### Author: ![Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/florian/32/5759_2.png) [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2026, 3:02pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/howto-fix-various-artists-to-various-for-discogs-search-artist-and-album/66601/3 "2026-06-05T15:02:31Z")

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FYI, this is also addressed in [Mp3tag v3.35-beta.2](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/455):

> [2026-05-22] CHG: Discogs Tag Sources: use Discogs convention of "Various" for various artists.

I'm using a slightly different replacement, which replaces `VA`, `V.A.`, and `Various Artists` while ignoring case.

`$regexp($if2(%albumartist%,%artist%),^(va|various artists|v\.a\.)$,Various,1)`

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### Author: ![musifant](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/f0a364/32.png) [@musifant](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/musifant)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2026, 3:13pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/howto-fix-various-artists-to-various-for-discogs-search-artist-and-album/66601/4 "2026-06-05T15:13:22Z")

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It keeps getting better! Thanks