# Singleton Library not actually tagging

**URL:** https://discourse.beets.io/t/singleton-library-not-actually-tagging/1343
**Category:** Help
**Created:** [June 17, 2020, 6:27am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/singleton-library-not-actually-tagging/1343 "2020-06-17T06:27:01Z")
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### Author: ![jamesac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a4c791/32.png) [@jamesac](https://discourse.beets.io/u/jamesac)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2020, 6:27am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/singleton-library-not-actually-tagging/1343/1 "2020-06-17T06:27:02Z")

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Hi all, ive been using beets for a while now to tag my albums and its great, however i have got to using the singleton mode as i have folders of tracks, mostly 80s and 90s singles, and whilst it would be nice to tag them completly as a release (with the a and b side or multitrack) single mode will be ok, I organise my singles in release year/album artist - title

however i have noticed that whilst beets will find a match in MB for a song, which has tags associated with it, they are not actually being written to the mp3

for example i have enclosed some screenshots to show

beeta output with linked match  
 ![Screenshot 2020-06-17 at 07.16.44](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/beets/original/1X/d4b44428b27623e545adda79ce9ed6341645fd8b.png)

match in MB which i am happy with

 ![Screenshot 2020-06-17 at 07.16.53](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/beets/original/1X/6d51f7b43f4f14c87f9e2bb4da36be0abe6b714e.png)

tag in Mediamonkey showing its not changed.

 ![Screenshot 2020-06-17 at 07.20.25](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/beets/original/1X/858e0f3887848eb027831dfc94648988db4eba7e.png)

hope you can advise on this as i have a lot of sinlgetons to scan

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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: [June 17, 2020, 11:06am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/singleton-library-not-actually-tagging/1343/2 "2020-06-17T11:06:19Z")

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Hi! Your configuration and verbose output would be really helpful here.

Also, please see the `beet write` command (for explicitly writing new ID3 tags to your files).

I also can’t tell from the MediaMonkey output what you were expecting… what tags did you think should be different?