# Tagging Various Artists
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tagging-various-artists/13106
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [February 18, 2012, 2:33pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tagging-various-artists/13106 "2012-02-18T14:33:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Phe0nix](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Phe0nix)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2012, 2:33pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tagging-various-artists/13106/1 "2012-02-18T14:33:24Z")
When i do a search via Amazon or the Freedb Mp3Tag finds the album and then writes
the tag for me but this particular album is a various artists album and Mp3tag writes
the Artist and Title for each song into the Title field and i would like the each different artist
to be written in the artists field and each different title in the title field.
Track #1 example :
I end up with **Mockingbird - Inez/Charlie Foxx** in my Title field and the Artists field has "various artists" where it should read as Charlie Foxx.
Just to be clear i would like to be able to have it tagged as follows :
Title = Mackingbird - Inez
Artists = Charlie Foxx
And what i am getting is the following :
Title = Mockingbird - Inez/Charlie Foxx
Artists = Various Artists
[](http://www.freeimagehosting.net/n3krb)
I looked through the help file and found the following and i still end up with artist and title in
the title field instead of title in the title field and artists in the artists field.
[http://help.mp3tag.de/main\_freedbconfirm.html](http://help.mp3tag.de/main_freedbconfirm.html)
Thank You
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2012, 2:46pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tagging-various-artists/13106/2 "2012-02-18T14:46:28Z")
As the help says, use "Utils \> Compilation"
and enter
%title% - %artist%
Or use the Musicbrainz search.
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### Author:  [@Phe0nix](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Phe0nix)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2012, 2:58pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tagging-various-artists/13106/3 "2012-02-18T14:58:44Z")
I used the Utils \> Compilation and says to use a / ( %artist% / %title% ) which was default
and the album still gets tagged incorrectly.
And i'm sorry but i'm not familiar with Musicbrainz but i did manage to locate the site and
did a search for the album and it was not found in the data base and if it were not sure how
that would help . I would rather get MP3Tag to function the way i need it to as sort of a one
stop shop ....
thanks for the post anyways
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2012, 3:08pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tagging-various-artists/13106/4 "2012-02-18T15:08:08Z")
You must remove %artist% / %title%
and enter
%title% - %artist%
I mean the Musicbrainz search inside of Mp3tag (Tag sources).
Use the search term
_A Time To Remember 1969_
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### Author:  [@Phe0nix](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Phe0nix)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2012, 3:22pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tagging-various-artists/13106/5 "2012-02-18T15:22:44Z")
Wow that worked great. I thought i would end up with the same thing but with a - instead
of a / . This is such an awesome program . I have a paid tagging program that can't touch
this program and what it can do. I'll be donating when i get paid.
Thank You
David
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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/tagging-various-artists/13106/6 "2026-02-09T12:23:40Z")