# Not sure what to do about this

**URL:** <https://community.metabrainz.org/t/not-sure-what-to-do-about-this/401088>\
**Category:** General chatter\
**Tags:** beets\
**Created:** [October 10, 2018, 3:46am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/not-sure-what-to-do-about-this/401088 "2018-10-10T03:46:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![ClericalLoop](https://community.metabrainz.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/b487fb/32.png) [@ClericalLoop](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/ClericalLoop)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2018, 3:46am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/not-sure-what-to-do-about-this/401088/1 "2018-10-10T03:46:56Z")

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I was importing a Ryan Adams & the Cardinals album and I noticed that beets was correcting my artist tags to “Ryan Adams & Ryan Adams & the Cardinals”. I came here and noticed that it appears the same way [here](https://musicbrainz.org/search?query=Cardinology&type=release_group&method=indexed).

Does anyone know what should be done to fix this?

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**Author:** ![Kid\_Devine](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/kid_devine/32/17561_2.png) [@Kid\_Devine](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/Kid_Devine)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2018, 6:49am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/not-sure-what-to-do-about-this/401088/2 "2018-10-10T06:49:45Z")

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Thanks for pointing this out. I’ve entered an edit in the database that will fix this.

[https://musicbrainz.org/edit/56605627](https://musicbrainz.org/edit/56605627)

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**Author:** ![Freso](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/freso/32/25_2.png) [@Freso](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/Freso)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2018, 7:46am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/not-sure-what-to-do-about-this/401088/3 "2018-10-10T07:46:18Z")

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You may want to consider using this configuration option for beets:  
[https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/reference/config.html#artist-credit](https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/reference/config.html#artist-credit)

See this feature request for more background:

> <https://github.com/beetbox/beets/issues/1249>

Also, beets has their own forum which would be much better suited for asking questions related to beets:

> **[beets](https://discourse.beets.io/)**
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> the music geek's media organizer