# Why is the album artist field show as blank?

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/why-is-the-album-artist-field-show-as-blank/69148
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [July 19, 2025, 4:16pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/why-is-the-album-artist-field-show-as-blank/69148 "2025-07-19T16:16:27Z")
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### Author: ![MotleyG](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/motleyg/32/440_2.png) [@MotleyG](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/MotleyG)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2025, 3:06am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/why-is-the-album-artist-field-show-as-blank/69148/22 "2025-07-21T03:06:50Z")

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

> [@Running Mp3Gain album analysis makes mp3 tags disappear in Mp3tag only](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/running-mp3gain-album-analysis-makes-mp3-tags-disappear-in-mp3tag-only/69163/3):
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> There is nothing crazy, everything is where it should be. However after running MP3Gain, it has stored the gain tags as APE values. All of your other tags are in the id3 format tags. You can see this indicated in the top bar of your first screenshot in post #1. There are plenty of other threads here with suggestions for handling this issue with MP3Gain. [https://community.mp3tag.de/search?q=Mp3gain%20ape%20order%3Alatest](https://community.mp3tag.de/search?q=Mp3gain%20ape%20order%3Alatest)

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