# Metadata duplicated after tagging with Audacity

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/metadata-duplicated-after-tagging-with-audacity/68664
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 29, 2025, 6:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/metadata-duplicated-after-tagging-with-audacity/68664 "2025-05-29T18:21:28Z")
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#### Post date: [May 29, 2025, 6:32pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/metadata-duplicated-after-tagging-with-audacity/68664/2 "2025-05-29T18:32:16Z")

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> [@Gman](#):
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> Audacity. Upon opening the file in MP3Tag, the info in the "Year" and "Comment" fields is duplicated.

See e.g. here:

> [@Tag anomaly](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-anomaly/17538):
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> Using mp3tagv2.73 with Windows 7 sp1 Home premium. When I edit a ID3.2 tag in Audacity and then view the tag with Mp3Tag, some of the fields (perhaps only the numeric ones like "Year", e.g.; 2015 show up as 2015\\2015. When I reopen the file in Audacity and other editors it displays correctly.

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