# WMP11 and Album-Artist tag
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wmp11-and-album-artist-tag/4457
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [February 11, 2007, 12:43pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wmp11-and-album-artist-tag/4457 "2007-02-11T12:43:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@christian\_s](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/christian_s)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2007, 12:43pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wmp11-and-album-artist-tag/4457/1 "2007-02-11T12:43:31Z")
Hi all,
I've been using mp3tag for years and it has so far been working out great for me.
I just purchased a Windows Media Center PC and I'm struggeling with getting it to recognize my music correctly. I think the reason is that WMP11 uses a weird logic when building the database on how a song relates to an Album and an Artist.
I found this article on the subject
[http://msmvps.com/blogs/thinice/articles/15229.aspx](http://msmvps.com/blogs/thinice/articles/15229.aspx)
I have tagged my mp3s with
Artist, Album, Title, Year, Genre and sometimes comment
I let mp3tag generate the file names using this convention
Drive:\Music\%artist%\%year% %album%\%artist% '['%album%']' $num(%track%,2) - %title%.
so that all my tracks are first in directory by Artist\Year Album\Song
It seems that WMP11 uses the tag Album and Album-Artist to build the relationship. Is there a way that I can use mp3tag to copy the Artist tag information to the Artist-Album tag for all my files?
I haven't been able to figure out how see the Album-Artist tag in mp3tag, so far I've only been able to see it in WMP11 and most of the time I do not have the right information or it's blank.
Any advice will be greatly appreciated
- Chr
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### Author:  [@christian\_s](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/christian_s)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2007, 2:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wmp11-and-album-artist-tag/4457/2 "2007-02-11T14:28:15Z")
as far as I can tell the field Artist in mp3tag = "Contributing Artist" in WMP11.
But WMP11 uses "Album Artist" as the main tag.
The question is now how to copy "Contributing Artist" to "Album Artist" for all my mp3 files?
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2007, 2:54pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wmp11-and-album-artist-tag/4457/3 "2007-02-11T14:54:43Z")
"Album Artist" is BAND in Mp3tag
How to mass-convert:
[/t/2126/1](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/2126/1)
[/t/2793/1](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/2793/1)
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### Author:  [@christian\_s](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/christian_s)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2007, 3:38pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wmp11-and-album-artist-tag/4457/4 "2007-02-11T15:38:20Z")
thanks Dano!
I just found the answer on the board in thread
[/t/4024/1](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/4024/1)
which is similar approach as you suggest, ie create a new Action
with properties
Action type: Format value
Field: BAND
Formatstring: %Artist%
and it works great! Saved my bacon - I wasn't looking forward to updated 10.000 tracks by hand in WMP, ugh!, that would have been a real nasty exersize.
thanks for the help!
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### Author:  [@fbfenton](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/fbfenton)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2007, 10:02pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wmp11-and-album-artist-tag/4457/5 "2007-07-24T22:02:58Z")
This action will work OK for many of my albums, but you might want to handle the albums that are Album Artist = "Various Artists" differently. Each individual song probably has a different artist while the album is various.
Just my "two-cents"