# MP4 not supporting artists and albumartists tags

**URL:** <https://community.metabrainz.org/t/mp4-not-supporting-artists-and-albumartists-tags/317712>\
**Category:** MusicBrainz Picard\
**Created:** [August 5, 2017, 4:49am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/mp4-not-supporting-artists-and-albumartists-tags/317712 "2017-08-05T04:49:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![steve1977](https://community.metabrainz.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@steve1977](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/steve1977)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2017, 4:49am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/mp4-not-supporting-artists-and-albumartists-tags/317712/1 "2017-08-05T04:49:33Z")

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This bug exists exists since 2012 ([https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/PICARD-376](https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/PICARD-376)). Unfortunately, it has not been assigned yet. Hope that someone can look into it.

What happens is:

- Artists (note the “s”) shows up in Picard (artists = xxx; yyy). As described in the 2012 bug report, this tag is proprietary to Picard. When checking with DBPoweramp or others, it shows just as (artists: xxx). The second artist i dropped from the artists file. This issue only exists for MP4 files. Things work flawless for MP3 files.

- Albumartists (note the “s”) is not added at all though I have included $setmulti(albumartists,%\_albumartists%) as script. This issue only exists for MP4 files. Things work flawless for MP3 files.