# Various Artists? No, it's not!
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/various-artists-no-its-not/63557
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** player
**Created:** [January 25, 2024, 11:50pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/various-artists-no-its-not/63557 "2024-01-25T23:50:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@0LD3\_DUDE](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/0LD3_DUDE)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2024, 11:50pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/various-artists-no-its-not/63557/1 "2024-01-25T23:50:14Z")
I have this one album that has be baffled.
The Commodores _14 Greatest Hits_ from 1983 (in 320 kbps MP3 form).
Both Foobar2000 and my iPhone see this as being a compilation, and lists Various Artists as the artist.
**MP3 tag lists The Commodores in every artist field.**
I've tried clearing the artist field, saving the files, re-entering the artist, but that does nothing.
Is there some super secret hidden switch telling my audio players this is a compilation? Can I fix this?
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### Author:  [@MotleyG](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/MotleyG)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2024, 1:55am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/various-artists-no-its-not/63557/2 "2024-01-26T01:55:22Z")
Could be the AlbumArtist field is set to Various Artists? Or the Compilation field is set to 1?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2024, 6:49am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/various-artists-no-its-not/63557/3 "2024-01-26T06:49:49Z")
> [@0LD3\_DUDE](#):
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> and lists Various Artists as the artist.
Please note that you have to fill both: ARTIST and ALBUMARTIST to get the tracks grouped together properly.
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### Author:  [@0LD3\_DUDE](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/0LD3_DUDE)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2024, 8:40pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/various-artists-no-its-not/63557/4 "2024-01-27T20:40:45Z")
MY fix was something I've never done before, and I've used MP3Tag for . . . twenty years?
I used it to _remove_ all tags from the entire album. Then I recreated tags from filenames. Whatever was hidden in the metadata that I could not see was erased, and now everything sees the entire album as being by the Commodores. No more various artists nonsense.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2024, 8:59pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/various-artists-no-its-not/63557/5 "2024-01-27T20:59:15Z")
And what is now different in the files?
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### Author:  [@Valik](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Valik)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2024, 11:14pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/various-artists-no-its-not/63557/6 "2024-01-27T23:14:03Z")
Only speculating what could have been the issue for 0LD3\_DUDE from my own experience.
I had a similar issue with some albums showing up as Various Artists in Plexamp. The Artist & AlbumArtist tags were setup correctly. I discovered these particular files also had a tag called Album Artist (has a space between the two words) that either had Various Artists or something different to the AlbumArtist tag. Example:
AlbumArtist: Accept
Album Artist: Acccept
Any discrepancy between the 2 fields would cause Various Artists to be shown in the Plexamp.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2024, 1:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/various-artists-no-its-not/63557/7 "2024-11-18T13:28:53Z")
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