# Tagging compilations

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tagging-compilations/49402
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [June 22, 2020, 1:16pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tagging-compilations/49402 "2020-06-22T13:16:22Z")
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### Author: ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2020, 7:35am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tagging-compilations/49402/5 "2020-06-23T07:35:05Z")

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> [@asx77](#):
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> TALB

This is the id3 name of the field that is shown in MP3tag (normally) as ALBUM.  
See the help on field mappings:

> **[Tag Field Mappings – Mp3tag Documentation](https://docs.mp3tag.de/mapping/)**
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> Overview of all available tag fields, their names in Mp3tag, and how they are mapped to the internal structures of the different tag formats. Mp3tag is the universal Tag Editor.

Then I would run a consistency check over all the files (no, it does not matter that they play allright), see this thread for some useful programs:

> [@How to check files for errors?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-check-files-for-errors/44633):
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> It’s required and often helps to reduce support cycles to check files for errors before filing a bug report. Symptoms of erroneous files are often missing or wrong bitrate or length audible blips or skips tags seem to be sticky and cannot be removed There are some really good tools to check the files for errors, namely MP3 Diags — identifies many different issues in MP3 files Website: [http://mp3diags.sourceforge.net](http://mp3diags.sourceforge.net) Download: [MP3 Diags - Getting MP3 Diags](http://mp3diags.sourceforge.net/010_getting_the_program.html#binWindows) If the font size in MP3 Diags is …

I recommend MP3val and MP3diags.  
Once you get no other errors in MP3diags than complaints about low quality audio, padding and missing replaygain data, try the files again.  
If you do not see something but it should be there, check also the settings in MP3tag at File\>Options\>Tags\>Mpeg which tag versions you read, write and delete.  
A good idea could be to get rid of APE tags.

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