Hello, I am trying to remove comments from my local files.
I select the multiple albums, select the comment tags I want to delete and remove them. I then click Save and it shows saved. But after remove and put them back into Brainz Picard, they show up again.
I’ve included the screenshots of what I mean below. What would cause it to not delete the tags? Is there a way to check or fix this issue?
Thank you
The values of tags are kept, unless they are overwritten with values from MB.
If you tag your files anew, you may select “Clear existing tags” to replace all information with values from MB. Standard tags like “album” will be overwritten by default anyway, because there is an available value for this tag in the database.
You can still keep some existing tags by listing them in the field “Preserve these tags from being cleared or overwritten with MusicBrainz data:”
You could also add a tagging script which uses the $delete() command, although it looks like something strange has happened such that the comment tag has been written as new tags like comment [something].
I agree with @ernstlx that enabling “Clear exiting tags” before retagging is probably the easiest solution, but I strongly encourage you to try this on a copy of a few files first to ensure that it’s doing what you want.
As you have close to 500 tracks in there, it may actually be only a few tracks that have the borken comments on them. Worth dropping a few albums at a time into Picard to trace where the issue really lies. You won’t have to reset all your tags then.
It is possible you have a few corrupted tags on one album. “Clear Existing Tags” will be that ultimate fix.
But overall, it’s an interesting, unusual situation. Perhaps the thread’s author can say more, as I’ve never seen anything like it.
I’ve had corrupted tags like that before. Some tracks from “dubious sources”. Example a torrent that didn’t fully complete. Or just plain bad data in the tags.
I bet this is just one album in their collection that is doing this. Albums like that are useful for testing tagging apps with. I used to be a Winamp beta tester and had a number of albums like that which could crash Winamp.
I have some viruses and Trojans from back then. I can send them to someone to check their antivirus.
I did try Mp3Tag and it did help remove the comments! I wasn’t able to try the other method but I’ll keep it in mind if it happens again. I do prefer Picard over Mp3Tag as I like the UI layout better. Still getting used to Mp3Tag when it comes to actually scanning files, finding matches and adding the tags. It also doesn’t help that my library is 30K+ files so it’ll take a while LOL At least in Picard, I can drag and drop what I need done. I’m sure I can do the same in Mp3Tag but i’m still learning it.
The best duo is Picard-Mp3Tag. 
Mp3Tag only for browsing the library, Picard for the rest.
Two different tools in the toollbox that overlap in abilities.
I find MP3tag is a good tag editor for specific fixes. Picard is a great identification tool using the MusicBrainz database to fill in tags.
My most common use of MP3tag is to pre-fill artist \ album \ track number tags to help Picard’s lookup.
