# MP3Tag doesn't read 'album artist' from MusicBee
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-doesnt-read-album-artist-from-musicbee/13300
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [April 7, 2012, 5:49am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-doesnt-read-album-artist-from-musicbee/13300 "2012-04-07T05:49:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@jistme](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/jistme)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2012, 5:49am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-doesnt-read-album-artist-from-musicbee/13300/1 "2012-04-07T05:49:30Z")
Hithere,
Recently having switched as my favorite musicplayer from winamp\>mediamonkey\>foobar to MusicBee, and evaluating MP3Tag to possibly replace Tag&Rename, I run into a small but annoying problem.
When I enter the name of the 'album artist' in MusicBee, it is not being displayed in MP3Tag.
If after that, I enter the name of the 'album artist' in MP3Tag, I get a double entry in MusicBee.
[](http://i.imgur.com/JMcHE.png)
This happens with flac files, but with mp3 it is working ok.
(for both MusicBee and MP3Tag I have exclusively ID3v2.4 UTF-8 selected)
Can I do something to change this myself, or should I bump this to Bugs?
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2012, 6:14am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-doesnt-read-album-artist-from-musicbee/13300/2 "2012-04-07T06:14:39Z")
On flac files Mp3tag is expecting ALBUMARTIST but Musicbee writes ALBUM ARTIST
(See View \> Extended Tags)
You can make Mp3tag display ALBUM ARTIST as ALBUMARTIST
Go to "Options \> Tags \> Mapping" and add
VorbisComment | ALBUM ARTIST | ALBUMARTIST
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### Author:  [@jistme](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/jistme)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2012, 6:22am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-doesnt-read-album-artist-from-musicbee/13300/3 "2012-04-07T06:22:29Z")
Thanks Dano, you're fast and helpfull!
> [@dano](#):
>
> On flac files Mp3tag is expecting ALBUMARTIST but Musicbee writes ALBUM ARTIST
> (See View \> Extended Tags)
>
> You can make Mp3tag display ALBUM ARTIST as ALBUMARTIST
>
> Go to "Options \> Tags \> Mapping" and add
> VorbisComment | ALBUM ARTIST | ALBUMARTIST
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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/mp3tag-doesnt-read-album-artist-from-musicbee/13300/4 "2026-02-09T12:23:46Z")