# MP3Tag Does not replace the tag "Album Interpret" if the existing tag ends with a semicolon (;)
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-does-not-replace-the-tag-album-interpret-if-the-existing-tag-ends-with-a-semicolon/47944
**Category:** No Bugs
**Created:** [February 21, 2020, 2:37pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-does-not-replace-the-tag-album-interpret-if-the-existing-tag-ends-with-a-semicolon/47944 "2020-02-21T14:37:53Z")
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### Author:  [@andy43](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/andy43)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2020, 2:37pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-does-not-replace-the-tag-album-interpret-if-the-existing-tag-ends-with-a-semicolon/47944/1 "2020-02-21T14:37:53Z")
The tag Album-Interpret is not replaced by a new one, if the existing tag ends with a semicolon.
The new tag-contents are simply appended to the original.
I found this error using Foobar2000 to check and correct the tag.
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### Author:  [@poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/poster)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2020, 3:43pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-does-not-replace-the-tag-album-interpret-if-the-existing-tag-ends-with-a-semicolon/47944/2 "2020-02-21T15:43:50Z")
> [@andy43](#):
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> The tag Album-Interpret is not replaced by a new one
How do you do this replacing?
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### Author:  [@andy43](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/andy43)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2020, 4:02pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-does-not-replace-the-tag-album-interpret-if-the-existing-tag-ends-with-a-semicolon/47944/3 "2020-02-21T16:02:25Z")
The solution to replace the album-interpret-tag ist simple:
- Use Foobar2000
- add the album-tracks and mark them all
- select "properties"
- correct the album.interpret-tag
- OK
2nd solution:
Let the developer correct the MP3Tag-Program 🙂
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2020, 4:10pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-does-not-replace-the-tag-album-interpret-if-the-existing-tag-ends-with-a-semicolon/47944/4 "2020-02-21T16:10:11Z")
Please tell us how you do it and what the tags look like in the dialogue Extended tags (Alt-T)
I just added a semicolon to the field ALBUMARTIST (there is no standard field "Album Interpret") and then entered a string without semicolon and nothing got appended - the field content got replaced with the new data.
And as this did not reproduce the alleged bug, it would be interesting to see how you did it.
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### Author:  [@andy43](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/andy43)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2020, 4:51pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-does-not-replace-the-tag-album-interpret-if-the-existing-tag-ends-with-a-semicolon/47944/5 "2020-02-21T16:51:58Z")
Ok with the ALBUMARTIST!
You are right.
If you add a semicolon at the end of the tag, save it , and the remove the semicolon, it really works fine.
The problem lies in the origin of the tagged album e.g. when the album is downloaded from e.g. a torrent.
There must be some code in the tag, which are not recognised by MP3tag.
I try to reconstruct the last occurrence and will send more details in the next days
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2020, 4:54pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-does-not-replace-the-tag-album-interpret-if-the-existing-tag-ends-with-a-semicolon/47944/6 "2020-02-21T16:54:29Z")
Please note that some applications use the semicolon to show multi-value fields
That is why I asked for a look at the extended tags dialogue where you would then see several fields of the same type.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-does-not-replace-the-tag-album-interpret-if-the-existing-tag-ends-with-a-semicolon/47944/7 "2026-02-09T12:19:08Z")