# Trouble with batch adding Tags to Comments field of particular Artists

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/trouble-with-batch-adding-tags-to-comments-field-of-particular-artists/69815
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [September 18, 2025, 8:49pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/trouble-with-batch-adding-tags-to-comments-field-of-particular-artists/69815 "2025-09-18T20:49:17Z")
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### Author: ![shaynoUki](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ba8739/32.png) [@shaynoUki](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/shaynoUki)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2025, 5:09am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/trouble-with-batch-adding-tags-to-comments-field-of-particular-artists/69815/3 "2025-09-19T05:09:43Z")

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> [@ohrenkino](#):
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> $if($eql(%artist%,Massive Attack),%comment%',GROOVY,FUNKY,BRISTOL',%comment%)

Thanks for your reply. I found some code on a few pages, and then tried variations of each till i got a result, ( trial and error ), i know, not the best or most efficient method !

The preview panel kept telling me that anything i added after the $if query( ie a bracket )) would be invalid syntax, even though i saw many examples in the discussions.

i also kept returning 2x Massive Attack, which was helped, i think, by this thread…

> [@How to tag "Untitled" tracks](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-tag-untitled-tracks/14012):
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> So I have a lot of tracks that are named "Untitled". Lots of electronic releases have songs marked as "Untitled" or "Instrumental" or "Interlude", etc. and there can be many with the same title in the same release. I am looking for a good solution to make these tracks unique so I don't have hundreds of tracks showing up with the same name in my player. MusicBrainz has a standard for naming such tracks: [http://musicbrainz.org/doc/Style/Unknown\_a...ose\_track\_title](http://musicbrainz.org/doc/Style/Unknown_and_untitled/Special_purpose_track_title) They state that untitled shoul…

and a lot of searching and scratching my head later, this was the best i could get. It was late here in Oz so i turned to the experts for help 🙂 thankyou !

Your edit works, however, it still returns a leading comma in the Comments field. How would i fix that ?

Your edit is artist-selective, thank you, that’s what i was trying to achieve.

Now, i’ll find another problematic script to entertain myself for the next few hours 🙂

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