# Artists created from mp3tag data **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Suggestions\ **Created:** [March 8, 2016, 8:12pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/artists-created-from-mp3tag-data/138131 "2016-03-08T20:12:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mirdragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@mirdragon](https://forums.plex.tv/u/mirdragon)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2016, 8:12pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/artists-created-from-mp3tag-data/138131/1 "2016-03-08T20:12:25Z")
In the music section, can the artists be populated using the mp3tags from music files. System can add the titles and albums, etc but artists whose tracks are on compilation albums only never get an artist link. Would be good if this feature was added ---
**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2021, 2:52pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/artists-created-from-mp3tag-data/138131/2 "2021-04-03T14:52:16Z")
Early 2021 clean-up: duplicate > [@Better support for albums and tracks with multiple artists](https://forums.plex.tv/t/better-support-for-albums-and-tracks-with-multiple-artists/116658): > > Currently, Plex is basically limited so that every album and track has one and only one artist. A ton of songs have more than one artist, and currently, there’s no good way to represent this in Plex. You could set the artist to something like “ArtistA and ArtistB”, but then that track/album will show up as a new artist, and it won’t show up under “ArtistA” or “ArtistB”. This is inconvenient and annoying. Instead of the “artist” field just being a text box, what if it were a “tags” box, where yo… ---
**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2021, 12:45am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/artists-created-from-mp3tag-data/138131/3 "2021-06-10T00:45:01Z")