diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 9ae7adb66..6d8bb10c8 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -4,7 +4,9 @@ ver 0.20 (not yet released)
   - "search"/"find" have a "window" parameter
   - report song duration with milliseconds precision
 * tags
-  - ape: drop support for non-standard tag "album artist"
+  - ape, ogg: drop support for non-standard tag "album artist"
+    affected filetypes: vorbis, flac, opus & all files with ape2 tags
+    (most importantly some mp3s)
 * decoder
   - ffmpeg: support ReplayGain and MixRamp
   - ffmpeg: support stream tags
diff --git a/src/decoder/plugins/XiphTags.cxx b/src/decoder/plugins/XiphTags.cxx
index 11a0bcd42..db5f6c5e1 100644
--- a/src/decoder/plugins/XiphTags.cxx
+++ b/src/decoder/plugins/XiphTags.cxx
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@
 const struct tag_table xiph_tags[] = {
 	{ "tracknumber", TAG_TRACK },
 	{ "discnumber", TAG_DISC },
-	{ "album artist", TAG_ALBUM_ARTIST },
 	{ "description", TAG_COMMENT },
 	{ nullptr, TAG_NUM_OF_ITEM_TYPES }
 };