# Remove compilation=0 from m4a?
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-compilation-0-from-m4a/12849
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [December 23, 2011, 9:06am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-compilation-0-from-m4a/12849 "2011-12-23T09:06:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@moley6knipe](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/moley6knipe)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2011, 9:06am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-compilation-0-from-m4a/12849/1 "2011-12-23T09:06:53Z")
Hi. Recently ripped some CDs to apple lossless with iTunes. By default, iTunes tags these rips as compilation=0. These rips also have Album Artist tags, and the combination of Album Artist tags and Compilation=0 means my Squeezeboxes don't display these albums properly.
Using Squeezeboxes "view tags" function I can see that my m4a files have CPIL = 0 tags. I can't delete that tag using either iTunes or mp3tag. I've tried setting compilation t0 1 then deleting the tag, but still Squeezebox sees CPIL = 0.
Any thoughts on how to remove it totally, please? Thanks!
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2011, 12:01pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-compilation-0-from-m4a/12849/2 "2011-12-23T12:01:53Z")
It seems at the moment Mp3tag cannot remove this tag if the value is 0
I can offer you a binary replace tool that will change the value to 1 so Mp3tag can delete the tag.
Extract it to a folder with m4a files and run the bat file.
It will create changed copies of your files. The original files should stay unchanged.
The console output should always read "Changed 1 occurrence"
[bug fixed in v2.49b]
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### Author:  [@moley6knipe](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/moley6knipe)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2011, 9:28am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-compilation-0-from-m4a/12849/3 "2011-12-24T09:28:25Z")
Perfect, thanks! That's fixed it. A quick action to remove the resultant \_\_ from the front of each filename and I'm sorted. Merry christmas!
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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/remove-compilation-0-from-m4a/12849/4 "2026-02-09T12:23:31Z")