# Any way to disable album artist \<-\> track artist fallbacks?

**URL:** <https://discourse.beets.io/t/any-way-to-disable-album-artist-track-artist-fallbacks/976>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [October 24, 2019, 2:59am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/any-way-to-disable-album-artist-track-artist-fallbacks/976 "2019-10-24T02:59:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![RollingStar](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.beets.io/rollingstar/32/728_2.png) [@RollingStar](https://discourse.beets.io/u/RollingStar)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2019, 2:59am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/any-way-to-disable-album-artist-track-artist-fallbacks/976/1 "2019-10-24T02:59:06Z")

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> <https://github.com/beetbox/beets/blob/master/beets/library.py#L412>

I have a compliation which is annoyingly tagged without an album artist but with individual track artists across 30+ tracks. So I get 30+ folders in my music folder. Is there a way to avoid this fallback?

My realistic answer is probably to manually fix such albums - I don’t think I have too many of them.

This may be a good thing to note in -v or -vv, regardless.

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**Author:** ![adrian](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.beets.io/adrian/32/4_2.png) [@adrian](https://discourse.beets.io/u/adrian)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2019, 3:28am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/any-way-to-disable-album-artist-track-artist-fallbacks/976/2 "2019-10-24T03:28:13Z")

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I think the normal way to do this is to mark the album as a compilation and to use a corresponding `comp` path in your configuration to sort the album accordingly. Maybe give that a shot, or just use `beet modify -a albumartist=“Various Artist” some album` or similar?