It seems that last night on many tracks the album artist field started showing up as blank when I know for a fact that it is not blank. I use two tag editors, Mp3Tag and Tag & Rename because both have strengths and I find each useful for different tasks. I know the album artist field is populated …

Thank you. You see in that dialogue that a field named ALBUM ARTIST has been created. That is a user-defined field. The correct name would be ALBUMARTIST (one word). You would have to transfer the data from ALBUM ARTIST to ALBUMARTIST

The label of the column does not say anything about the contents. But you do see in that definition, that a field called %albumartist% is adressed and not %album artist%. I suspect that somewhere along your tool chain either an action or a different application has created the user-defined field %…

[image] ohrenkino: I suspect that somewhere along your tool chain either an action or a different application has created the user-defined field %album artist%. How would I determine that? Because I have changed nothing in how I do things with tags so if that is so it had to have been done a…

[image] Ronstang: How would I determine that? I think you are the only one who can determine that. How should anybody from the distance find out what you do and what could possibly go in an undesired way? I could show you a way to get all the data from %album artist% back into %albumartist%…

[image] ohrenkino: I think you are the only one who can determine that. I know just enough about this to edit the fields "available" in tag editing software. I have no idea how to actually change the fields of the tags and there is no way I did that. Now it is possible that happened but I d…

[image] Ronstang: What I am asking you is there a way to take a deeper look at an offending track to see what the fields are labeled and if that has been changed how do I change it back. You see the field names in the extended tags dialogue. And these names should be used. BUT: MP3tag maps t…

[image] ohrenkino: Load the files without data in ALBUMARTIST Select all the files. Use Convert>Tag-Tag for ALBUMARTIST Format string: %album artist% Click OK to save the modification. Keep the files selected, open the extended tags dialogue Alt-T. You should now see a field called ALBUMAR…

[image] Ronstang: but I can only delete the value within the field "album artists". Did you try that in the extended tags dialogue?

[image] ohrenkino: Did you try that in the extended tags dialogue? Is that the box you get by ALT-T? Because if so yes I tried it there.

[image] Ronstang: but I can only delete the value within the field "album artists". Yes. In that you find a button with a red X. That deletes the selected field.

Why is the album artist field show as blank?

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MotleyG July 21, 2025, 3:06am 22

Probably linked to this other thread you started. The APE tags are causing mp3tag to display only those MP3Gain values.