# Cant read MOOD tag for flac files

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cant-read-mood-tag-for-flac-files/49956>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [August 18, 2020, 7:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cant-read-mood-tag-for-flac-files/49956 "2020-08-18T19:26:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![CleDel](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@CleDel](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/CleDel)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2020, 7:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cant-read-mood-tag-for-flac-files/49956/1 "2020-08-18T19:26:23Z")

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Hey hope you can help me:

I add mood tags in mediamonkey which I normaly read in mp3tag, for mp3s I use therefore "COMMENT MUSICMATCH\_MOOD"

But for flacs theres a strange behaviour: Only with "MOOD" in the tag panel im able to read my MM tags, if I want to use it in the columns or for functions %mood% doesn't affect anymore.

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**Author:** ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2020, 7:29pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cant-read-mood-tag-for-flac-files/49956/2 "2020-08-18T19:29:43Z")

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which definition did you use to get the field into the tag panel?

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**Author:** ![CleDel](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@CleDel](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/CleDel)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2020, 7:34pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cant-read-mood-tag-for-flac-files/49956/3 "2020-08-18T19:34:23Z")

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![mood](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/f/fe3187064e281025a00acb5a1691e94e46bb2e24.png)

So, the blue circled value in the picture equals my MM tags, but if I want it for my columns and all, %mood% dosnt effect anymore, its empty.

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**Author:** ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2020, 7:52pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cant-read-mood-tag-for-flac-files/49956/4 "2020-08-18T19:52:03Z")

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The backslashes look to me as though you have multi-value fields.  
You would need $meta\_sep(mood,\) to show them all in the column  
So it could be that you have a space as first character in the first field ...

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**Author:** ![CleDel](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@CleDel](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/CleDel)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2020, 7:54pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cant-read-mood-tag-for-flac-files/49956/5 "2020-08-18T19:54:16Z")

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This saves my day ; ) thank you ohrenkino^^

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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, 12:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cant-read-mood-tag-for-flac-files/49956/6 "2026-02-09T12:28:47Z")

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