Zeroing COMMENT field?

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I have some FLAC files that beets converted to MP3s for me. The original FLAC files had a comment field with info like this.
EAC V1.0 beta 2, Secure Mode, Test & Copy, AccurateRip, FLAC -8

This was saved into a ID3 field that ffprobe reports as:
COMMENT : EAC V1.0 beta 2, Secure Mode, Test & Copy, AccurateRip, FLAC -8

I’m trying to get the Zero plugin to remove these. I added this to my config

zero:
    fields: comments
    comments: [EAC, Exact Audio Copy, LAME, 'ripped by', http, LameXP]
    update_database: true

This is not zeroing the field in question. I tried adding COMMENT to the field list

zero:
    fields: comments COMMENT
    comments: [EAC, Exact Audio Copy, LAME, 'ripped by', http, LameXP]
    COMMENT: [EAC, Exact Audio Copy, LAME, 'ripped by', http, LameXP]
    update_database: true

Now Zero reports that COMMENT is not a field. Which it isn’t in the beets field list.

So what am I doing wrong? How can zero these comments?

Is there a way to do a dry run with scrub? I’m curious what other fields I would lose if I scrub the files instead.

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Hi! You shouldn’t need to add COMMENT; only beets field names are relevant here. I’m not really sure what’s going wrong… maybe a good way to start debugging would be to remove the conditions for the comments field and just unconditionally zero it and see if that works? Verbose mode might help too.

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Hi guys. I am having the same issue with removing comments. I have hundreds of random comments on tracks that I want to delete. Do I need to list all of these comments to delete them? Thanks in advance.

zero:
fields: comments
comments:
update_database: true

This :point_up_2:does not unconditionally zero

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zero:
fields: comments
comments: [EAC, Exact Audio Copy, LAME, ‘ripped by’, http, LameXP, Purchased at Beatport.com]
update_database: true

A lot of my tracks have ‘Purchased at Beatport.com’ even though I add this it still doesn’t remove from the comment on the track.

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Hello! Can you please put your config listings into Markdown code blocks? Otherwise, they don’t preserve indentation and other formatting.

You could also try just doing beet modify comments= as a one-off solution.