Finder doesn't have the smarts to change this - but finder does have a services menu that will allow you to craft a custom automator service that would help automate the process.
You can pop up a dialog to get the artist name, store it, import the songs to iTunes and set the Artist (and/or many of the other tags)
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This is a nice way to learn automator if you care, but Finder won't be doing the writing of the mp3 tags. iTunes will launch and do the writing once finder hands off the file(s) and the variable name storing the artist string to iTunes.
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Your script uses an import in iTunes step. Won't this give rise to any unwanted side-effects if e.g. iTunes is set to auto manage the library? – Rabarberski10 авг. 112011-08-10 08:07:23
Yes indeed - this implies the songs get imported and you will have to manage / delete these songs. That is a big down side of using the tools provided and a nice benefit of the tools intended to just edit the tags in place. – bmike10 авг. 112011-08-10 15:49:23
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You say this Automator workflow uses iTunes is used to change the value of the MP3's ID3 tags. Maybe it would be better to combine your workflow idea with the ID3 tag editors suggested in the accepted answer. That way, the workflow could open the editor app (or maybe not open it fully, if it can run in the background), let it make the changes, and then it exits. It wouldn't need to start up the whole iTunes app or import the tracks into the library. The workflow could also use a shell-based ID3 tag editor, too. – L S21 апр. 162016-04-21 14:37:48