# append data and not erase original

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/append-data-and-not-erase-original/1708
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [February 17, 2005, 5:10am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/append-data-and-not-erase-original/1708 "2005-02-17T05:10:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![billyvnilly](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/7ba0ec/32.png) [@billyvnilly](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/billyvnilly)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2005, 5:10am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/append-data-and-not-erase-original/1708/1 "2005-02-17T05:10:01Z")

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winamp users notice that many MANY id3tags are not represented in the media library and well, have been forced to use the comment tag for many fillers. I use comment field for my comments as well as a place to store my ratings for them.

IS there a way to append a field (in my case %comment%) so if i have :

'original text'

in comment field, i can append it to say:

'original text ; five'

thanks again.

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### Author: ![Sebastian\_Mares](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/sebastian_mares/32/9285_2.png) [@Sebastian\_Mares](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Sebastian_Mares)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2005, 5:25am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/append-data-and-not-erase-original/1708/2 "2005-02-17T05:25:27Z")

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> winamp users notice that many MANY id3tags are not represented in the media library and well, have been forced to use the comment tag for many fillers. I use comment field for my comments as well as a place to store my ratings for them.  
> IS there a way to append a field (in my case %comment%) so if i have :
> 
> 'original text'
> 
> in comment field, i can append it to say:
> 
> 'original text ; five'  
> thanks again.
> 
> \<{POST\_SNAPBACK}\>

You can use an action for formatting the value. 🙂

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### Author: ![Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/florian/32/5759_2.png) [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2005, 7:06am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/append-data-and-not-erase-original/1708/3 "2005-02-17T07:06:24Z")

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> [@](#):
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> You can use an action for formatting the value. 🙂
> 
> \<{POST\_SNAPBACK}\>

Like %comment%; five for the COMMENT field.

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### Author: ![billyvnilly](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/7ba0ec/32.png) [@billyvnilly](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/billyvnilly)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2005, 12:44pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/append-data-and-not-erase-original/1708/4 "2005-02-17T12:44:31Z")

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> [@](#):
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> Like %comment%; five for the COMMENT field.
> 
> \<{POST\_SNAPBACK}\>

thanks.

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### Author: ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/append-data-and-not-erase-original/1708/5 "2026-02-09T12:19:19Z")

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