# Strange Various Artist entry **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [February 2, 2014, 10:42am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/strange-various-artist-entry/15453 "2014-02-02T10:42:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jendker](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/b5e925/32.png) [@Jendker](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Jendker)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 10:42am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/strange-various-artist-entry/15453/1 "2014-02-02T10:42:56Z")
I have strange situation, it's second time I noticed it. I have album fully tagged, and the when I try to play music in Foobar2000 then only (only) one song is different. As I can see in Foobar it's Album Artist tag is set to "Various artists" even though it's empty in Mp3Tag. Pictures included describes my situation. What can I do to see whole album as one with no Variuos Artist entry? [Picture 1](http://imageshack.com/a/img32/9982/1n4u.png) [Picture 2](http://imageshack.com/a/img819/6609/tjee.png) ---
**Author:** ![DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/detlevd/32/123_2.png) [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 11:15am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/strange-various-artist-entry/15453/2 "2014-02-02T11:15:30Z")
> [@Jendker](#): > > ... only (only) one song is different. What can I do to see whole album as one with no Variuos Artist entry?. ... Please open the Mp3tag dialog "Extended Tags..." for this media file and check what tag-fields are stored. Look for tag-field "ALBUMARTIST" or "ALBUM ARTIST" or such. Delete this tag-field. DD.20140202.1315.CET ---
**Author:** ![Jendker](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/b5e925/32.png) [@Jendker](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Jendker)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 11:23am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/strange-various-artist-entry/15453/3 "2014-02-02T11:23:30Z")
Well, there were no tag-fields like "ALBUMARTIST" or "ALBUM ARTIST" but this particular song had field called Compilation set to 0. I don't know why, but after setting it to blank it is fine 🙂 Thank you for your attention! ---
**Author:** ![DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/detlevd/32/123_2.png) [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 11:37am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/strange-various-artist-entry/15453/4 "2014-02-02T11:37:30Z")
> [@Jendker](#): > > ... this particular song had field called Compilation set to 0. ... "COMPILATION=0" is an unusual condition for the tag-field COMPILATION. COMPILATION is defined to be set to "1", when the media file is part of a compilation set, otherwise the tag-field COMPILATION has to be non existent. foobar seems only to detect whether the tag-field COMPILATION does exist or not, what value is stored, this does not matter, so foobar handles the file as having Albumartist "Various Artists". DD.20140202.1337.CET ---
**Author:** ![Jendker](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/b5e925/32.png) [@Jendker](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Jendker)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 11:51am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/strange-various-artist-entry/15453/5 "2014-02-02T11:51:16Z")
Thank you! So in fact deleting Compilation values in my whole music collection would help me to organise it if I don't really use this tag-field? It wouldn't be harmful so that it would cause chaos in my tags? ---
**Author:** ![DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/detlevd/32/123_2.png) [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 12:10pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/strange-various-artist-entry/15453/6 "2014-02-02T12:10:22Z")
You should check each album for having released as a compilation album or not. If not, then you can delete the tag-field COMPILATION. If yes, then set COMPILATION=1. DD.20140202.1410.CET ---
**Author:** ![Jendker](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/b5e925/32.png) [@Jendker](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Jendker)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 12:14pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/strange-various-artist-entry/15453/7 "2014-02-02T12:14:53Z")
That's everything I wanted to know 🙂 Thank you for your attention! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2026, 12:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/strange-various-artist-entry/15453/8 "2026-02-09T12:24:53Z")
Closed on February 9, 2026, 12:24pm UTC