# MP3 Tag / Album artist / band
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3-tag-album-artist-band/12919
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [January 10, 2012, 9:39pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3-tag-album-artist-band/12919 "2012-01-10T21:39:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Kees788](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Kees788)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2012, 9:39pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3-tag-album-artist-band/12919/1 "2012-01-10T21:39:37Z")
In the past I had some issues with replaygain by album tags if one track had for instance an additional guest artist.
Solution was to look at the album artist which I always set the same for each full album, then it's ok for the artist itself to be different.
I had made a note to myself (as i don't clean my tags often) to have replaygain also check the BAND tag, and specifically not "album artist".
To my confusion I just open mp3tag and my files all show a question mark below BAND and ALBUM ARTIST is filled in for every file. Has something changed that I missed in iTunes or mp3tag or was I wrong all along? I just changed preferences so replaygain now looks at ALBUM ARTIST
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2012, 10:15pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3-tag-album-artist-band/12919/2 "2012-01-10T22:15:05Z")
What's actually written to the ID3v2 tag is a TPE2 frame.
Some time ago Mp3tag changed the label of that frame from BAND to ALBUMARTIST.
So just use ALBUMARTIST instead of BAND.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3-tag-album-artist-band/12919/3 "2026-02-09T12:23:34Z")