# How do I work with MB releases that have \[no label\]?

**URL:** <https://discourse.beets.io/t/how-do-i-work-with-mb-releases-that-have-no-label/1406>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [July 16, 2020, 8:49am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/how-do-i-work-with-mb-releases-that-have-no-label/1406 "2020-07-16T08:49:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![aptd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/74df32/32.png) [@aptd](https://discourse.beets.io/u/aptd)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2020, 8:49am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/how-do-i-work-with-mb-releases-that-have-no-label/1406/1 "2020-07-16T08:49:13Z")

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I have quite a lot of stuff that’s self published and thus on MB has the label value [no label].

In this case, the label field is simply returned blank. This isn’t ideal! I’d like it to say something about it having the [no label] value, not just return an empty field.

If I run the resulting folder through Picard it adds [no label] by default. It also adds the second publisher in the case where there’s more than one publisher, incidentally, but that’s an aside.

I tinkered with rewrite and couldn’t get anything to happen. I did some digging through the code, documentation and fora and all I found was this:

 ![nolabel](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/beets/original/1X/a40fdfac360bbe6c2c725b95dc04b3b61813cca7.png)

which gives me the feeling this behaviour is just how beets works and always will.

Can I do anything about this aside from manually putting it back in myself?

I don’t mind the tiny bit of extra work but I do predict this becoming a pain if beets starts changing it back to being empty during future operations on my library.

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**Author:** ![adrian](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.beets.io/adrian/32/4_2.png) [@adrian](https://discourse.beets.io/u/adrian)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2020, 10:42am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/how-do-i-work-with-mb-releases-that-have-no-label/1406/2 "2020-07-16T10:42:20Z")

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Hello! Could you consider using something like `beet modify -a label::^$ label='[no label]'` to set every album with an empty label to that string instead?