# I have one problem MP3 album I bought from Amazon
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/i-have-one-problem-mp3-album-i-bought-from-amazon/70414
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [December 26, 2025, 3:30pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/i-have-one-problem-mp3-album-i-bought-from-amazon/70414 "2025-12-26T15:30:36Z")
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### Author:  [@fieldsjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/fieldsjj)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2025, 3:30pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/i-have-one-problem-mp3-album-i-bought-from-amazon/70414/1 "2025-12-26T15:30:36Z")
I don’t see anything that helps me because I don’t understand what is causing the issue.
1 - I bought the album as MP3 because the CD was extremely expensive.
2 - I cleaned up the tags like I normally do(added the composer, used my preferred category, etc.) and created a playlist with MP3TAG and copied it to Apple Music but it always creates separate files rather than a folder.
3 - I looked in Details under Properties to see if I could spot anything unusual and didn’t and started turning on things with View Options under File Folder and found Album ID was different than usual for tracks.
I used MP3TAG to remove the tags and manually re-entered everything but the ALBUM ID didn’t change. I changed Artist in MP3TAG which seemed to be the correct field but it also made no difference. after several hours I am at a loss on how to fix this. any insight would be appreciated
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2025, 3:49pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/i-have-one-problem-mp3-album-i-bought-from-amazon/70414/2 "2025-12-26T15:49:29Z")
Please show us a [screenshot](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/hints-for-asking-support-requests/56190#p-168842-use-screenshots-to-exemplify-the-issue-2) from Alt + T from one of your mp3.
Describe in as much detail as possible what you really want to achieve with Apple Music.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2025, 4:56pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/i-have-one-problem-mp3-album-i-bought-from-amazon/70414/3 "2025-12-26T16:56:52Z")
> [@fieldsjj](#):
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> I changed Artist in MP3TAG
Have you filled the fields ALBUM and ALBUMARTIST?
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### Author:  [@fieldsjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/fieldsjj)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2025, 5:52pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/i-have-one-problem-mp3-album-i-bought-from-amazon/70414/4 "2025-12-26T17:52:16Z")
yes, I tried “Various Artists” under Artists and the actual performer under album artist
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2025, 5:55pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/i-have-one-problem-mp3-album-i-bought-from-amazon/70414/5 "2025-12-26T17:55:06Z")
> [@fieldsjj](#):
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> Various Artists” under Artists and the actual performer under album artist
I think it should be the other way round.
ALBUMARTIST is the overall publisher,
ARTIST is the actual performer of the individual track.
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### Author:  [@fieldsjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/fieldsjj)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2025, 6:06pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/i-have-one-problem-mp3-album-i-bought-from-amazon/70414/6 "2025-12-26T18:06:08Z")
Elf is the problem album. it was purchased as an MP3 album. the Pentatonix album I ripped from the CD I bought.
the Elf album will only come over as individual tracks not as a folder containing the tracks of the album. the Pentatonix album come over as a folder with the tracks contained within. I have other albums I have bought as MP3 but generally I buy CDs and rip them. the Elf album has been the first difficult one. although I have just recently started using Apple Music and Devices instead of iTunes.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2025, 7:15pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/i-have-one-problem-mp3-album-i-bought-from-amazon/70414/7 "2025-12-26T19:15:38Z")
> [@fieldsjj](#):
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> the Elf album has been the first difficult one
Please swap the contents of ALBUMARTIST and ARTIST.
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### Author:  [@fieldsjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/fieldsjj)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2025, 12:49pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/i-have-one-problem-mp3-album-i-bought-from-amazon/70414/8 "2025-12-27T12:49:37Z")
that did the trick, thank you
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2026, 12:49pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/i-have-one-problem-mp3-album-i-bought-from-amazon/70414/9 "2026-01-26T12:49:44Z")
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