# Comment tag vs. Comments field in Windows
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/comment-tag-vs-comments-field-in-windows/43766
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [December 3, 2018, 6:39pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/comment-tag-vs-comments-field-in-windows/43766 "2018-12-03T18:39:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@TheDailyVinyl](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/TheDailyVinyl)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2018, 6:39pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/comment-tag-vs-comments-field-in-windows/43766/1 "2018-12-03T18:39:05Z")
There have been a few times when the "Comment" in Mp3Tag is not the same as Windows Explorer "Comments". When it happens, it's always all the songs in an album that I downloaded or imported at the same time.
For instance, "Tweezer (2010-07-03 Alpharetta, GA).mp3"...
in MP3tag, it shows the Comment tag that I manually added: "2010-07-03"
but in Windows Explorer it shows "phlb01d1\_07\_Tweezer" in the Comments field (and in the Details tab of the File Properties.)
I have manually removed the "phlb01d1\_07\_Tweezer" from the details tab which also removes the "2010-07-03" - which I can re-add. But I'd rather not do this for all these that are mismatched.
Any thoughts?
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2018, 6:46pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/comment-tag-vs-comments-field-in-windows/43766/2 "2018-12-03T18:46:08Z")
see here for the basic problem:
> [@\[X\] Setting comment field](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-setting-comment-field/14283/3):
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> Sounds like the problem with the language descriptor. Win Explorer only displays comments with the same language as your Windows system. Read [/t/11025/1](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/11025/1) and set \_M\_STR\_ID3V2LANG to whatever language code your Windows is using.
It's probably a problem of the language descriptor. if that does not match, you probably get 2 comment fields.
It would be easiest to run these files through mp3val and repair them.
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### Author:  [@TheDailyVinyl](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/TheDailyVinyl)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2018, 6:52pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/comment-tag-vs-comments-field-in-windows/43766/3 "2018-12-03T18:52:32Z")
Sounds like a strange issue, but I'll check it out. thank you!
(Oh and thanks for a script you wrote for me a couple months ago. I never posted a thank you to that one. 😉
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### Author:  [@TheDailyVinyl](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/TheDailyVinyl)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2018, 6:56pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/comment-tag-vs-comments-field-in-windows/43766/4 "2018-12-03T18:56:53Z")
I scanned the ones showing a different comment field in MP3val and all had a State = "OK".
So I tried to change the Comment field in MP3Tag again, but the Windows file properties still shows the original comment. 😕
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2018, 7:03pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/comment-tag-vs-comments-field-in-windows/43766/5 "2018-12-03T19:03:54Z")
is it an mp3 file?
Does the language that you use on your PC match the setting in File\>Options\>Tags\>Enhanced
By default MP3tag uses English (as this is used by iTunes ...)
Also, you could check if you meanwhile see 2 comment fields in the Extended Tags dialogue (Alt-T)
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### Author:  [@TheDailyVinyl](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/TheDailyVinyl)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2018, 7:13pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/comment-tag-vs-comments-field-in-windows/43766/6 "2018-12-03T19:13:15Z")
Yes, it is an mp3 file.
Yes, all is set to English.
And YES, after hitting Alt-T, I do see "COMMENT" and "COMMENT COMMENTS" with the 2 different texts I mentioned!
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2018, 7:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/comment-tag-vs-comments-field-in-windows/43766/7 "2018-12-03T19:27:14Z")
see if you can filter for those files with
%comment comments% PRESENT
then use the extended tags dialogue to delete that field.
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### Author:  [@TheDailyVinyl](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/TheDailyVinyl)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2018, 8:50pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/comment-tag-vs-comments-field-in-windows/43766/8 "2018-12-03T20:50:33Z")
That Alt-T is helpful! Thank you!!
I set up an Action to "remove fields" for COMMENT COMMENTS as well as 3 others I found:
COMMENT ITUNES\_CDDB\_IDS
COMMENT ITUNNORM
COMMENT ITUNSMPB
Hope this helps somebody else too!
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/comment-tag-vs-comments-field-in-windows/43766/9 "2026-02-09T12:27:48Z")