# Windows 7 and comments tag?
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/windows-7-and-comments-tag/10204
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 29, 2010, 2:36pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/windows-7-and-comments-tag/10204 "2010-03-29T14:36:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Lambas](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Lambas)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2010, 2:36pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/windows-7-and-comments-tag/10204/1 "2010-03-29T14:36:14Z")
Hi!!!
when i write a "comments" tag via windows7 file properties
i can then see this "comment tag" to mp3tag
but if i write a "comment tag" via mp3tag then i cant see is in the windows7 file properties or windows7 explorer 😕
everything else is working cool!
any help please?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2010, 3:35pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/windows-7-and-comments-tag/10204/2 "2010-03-30T15:35:10Z")
> [@Lambas](#):
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> Hi!!!
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> i cant see is in the windows7 file properties or windows7 explorer 😕
You will find that none of the comments incorporated in an mp3 file and written by an mp3 tagger show up in the explorer's comment field.
I speculate that the order of tags changes once you use a decent mp3 tagger and that the explorer comment field then moves to a another place in the sequence so that the explorer does not recognize it. But this is just a wild guess.
Still: as Microsoft came later than the mp3 tags Microsoft should display and handle the comment tag correctly - which it does not.
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### Author:  [@Lambas](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Lambas)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2010, 11:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/windows-7-and-comments-tag/10204/3 "2010-03-30T23:27:37Z")
thanks very much ohrenkino!!
i quit comment and now using "album artist" for comment (i dont need album-artist anyway ... only the simple artist )
thank you
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2010, 5:06pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/windows-7-and-comments-tag/10204/4 "2010-04-01T17:06:22Z")
> [@Lambas](#):
>
> thank you
Just if you want to still use the comment tag:
Apparently Windows considers the language settings for "comment" which have to be the same for the mp3 tag and the explorer comment field.
[/t/7632/1](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/7632/1)
shows how to adapt the mp3tag default comment language setting.
As this is a method that only works on your local machine and for one language, most tags on the other hand are the treated equally regardless of the OS language, I would prefer to use the tags (just like you did now).
BUT: as MP3tag has so many functions to manipulate even such specialities, you may want to write a little action that sets the correct language for your comments
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### Author:  [@kael](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/kael)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2011, 9:35pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/windows-7-and-comments-tag/10204/5 "2011-02-11T21:35:15Z")
Is there a way to show a column with the language of the ID tag so you easy see which language a tracks has?
I know you can add extra colums besides the standard ones,
i.e. I added %\_id3v2\_character\_encoding% to see the Char encoding.
But what field to use to see the language (for the comment tag)? Is this possible? Would be a great help to clean up all my mp3's.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:22pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/windows-7-and-comments-tag/10204/6 "2026-02-09T12:22:17Z")