# Setting to Automatically Populate 'Album Artist' w/ 'Artist' value?
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/setting-to-automatically-populate-album-artist-w-artist-value/19525
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [November 13, 2017, 10:32pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/setting-to-automatically-populate-album-artist-w-artist-value/19525 "2017-11-13T22:32:22Z")
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### Author:  [@kevinzero](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/kevinzero)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2017, 10:32pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/setting-to-automatically-populate-album-artist-w-artist-value/19525/1 "2017-11-13T22:32:22Z")
Hi,
I've been using this app for years and love it, however many times albums I load will not have Album Artist populated with anything, and when that happens 90% of the time I just want the Artist field to match Album Artist.
I realize it's just a matter of copying and pasting, but we all know that little operations like that (in any app) do add up and can get aggravating when you're doing multiple albums in a row.
I think an opt-in setting for automatically populating the AA field with the Artist value would help a lot in these cases. Or perhaps a keyboard shortcut if that's simpler? I've thought about this for a long time but didn't think to suggest until now. Thanks for reading.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2017, 5:57am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/setting-to-automatically-populate-album-artist-w-artist-value/19525/2 "2017-11-14T05:57:32Z")
An automatism is not there but you could alternatively use an action as described in the (really) frequently asked questions: [/t/967/1](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/967/1)