The name of the tags change depending on the player and the music file format. These 'tags' are name value pairs similar to 'albumname=Thriller'. Recall that Album Artist is a 'tag' written into a music file. Most do, but there are differences between them. Your music player and the Album Artist tagĪll this would be for naught if your music player of choice doesn't support Album Artist tags. Using Album Artist tags makes our music collection more navigable. We can also find albums whose Album Artist tag is 'Various artists', which would give us all compilation albums. This gives us a lot of flexibility we can find all songs by a given artist whether on dedicated albums by that artist or as tracks on compilation albums. Therefore, we can tag the album with an 'Album Artist' tag of 'Various Artists'. Each track in a compilation album may have a different artist, but the album as a whole should be viewed as a 'Various Artists' album. That sounds like a technicality, so when do Album Artist tags become useful? Consider compilation albums. They denote the artist for a musical release, as distinct from artists for the tracks that constitute a release.

'Album Artist' tags are stored inside mp3s and other music files.

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