# Copying Multi Field Tag to Comments Field

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copying-multi-field-tag-to-comments-field/16460>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [January 2, 2015, 3:35am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copying-multi-field-tag-to-comments-field/16460 "2015-01-02T03:35:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![ExiledLife](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/fbc32d/32.png) [@ExiledLife](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ExiledLife)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2015, 3:35am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copying-multi-field-tag-to-comments-field/16460/1 "2015-01-02T03:35:00Z")

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I am trying to setup my music library so that it displays properly on all devices. I have setup a custom tag, %VOCALS%, to displaying the singer and sometimes there are multiple singers. If I have one field tagged under vocals it works fine but if I have two or more it only copies over the first tag but not the second tag. What I want to do is have it so that it would move the multiple fields to the comments field and display looking like this for example: "Vocals: Mei Ayakura; Tsubaki Ichimatsu" with ; being the separator of the two fields.

If anyone can help me out that would be great.

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/poster/32/4881_2.png) [@poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/poster)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2015, 5:56am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copying-multi-field-tag-to-comments-field/16460/2 "2015-01-02T05:56:16Z")

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You should define an action group with 2 actions.  
First merge the duplicate fields:

Action Type: Merge duplicate fields  
Field: VOCALS  
Separator: ;

After that you move the content to any other field you want using an action of the type "Format Value".

Action Type: Format Value  
Field: COMMENT  
Format String: Vocals;  
(Remark: There is a space after the ; )

But you should have a look at the tag-fiels INVOLVEDPEOPLE.  
Maybe this suits for your needs and it is an official ID3V2.3 tag.  
[https://docs.mp3tag.de/mapping/#involvedpeople](https://docs.mp3tag.de/mapping/#involvedpeople)  
[http://id3.org/id3v2.3.0#Involved\_people\_list](http://id3.org/id3v2.3.0#Involved_people_list)

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**Author:** ![ExiledLife](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/fbc32d/32.png) [@ExiledLife](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ExiledLife)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2015, 7:48pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copying-multi-field-tag-to-comments-field/16460/3 "2015-01-02T19:48:58Z")

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I was able to get it to work properly by copying what I had to do to get it to display properly under the Vocals column.

Field: COMMENT  
Format String: Vocals: $meta\_sep(vocals,; )

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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:** [January 6, 2021, 2:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copying-multi-field-tag-to-comments-field/16460/4 "2021-01-06T14:26:27Z")

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