# Smartlists "does not contain" does not add the track when the field is empty (and so, does not contain..)

**URL:** <https://community.enginedj.com/t/smartlists-does-not-contain-does-not-add-the-track-when-the-field-is-empty-and-so-does-not-contain/55106>\
**Category:** Engine DJ (Mac & PC)\
**Tags:** smartlist, smart-playlist, engine-desktop\
**Created:** [March 9, 2024, 9:53pm UTC](https://community.enginedj.com/t/smartlists-does-not-contain-does-not-add-the-track-when-the-field-is-empty-and-so-does-not-contain/55106 "2024-03-09T21:53:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Titch](https://community.enginedj.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@Titch](https://community.enginedj.com/u/Titch)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2024, 9:53pm UTC](https://community.enginedj.com/t/smartlists-does-not-contain-does-not-add-the-track-when-the-field-is-empty-and-so-does-not-contain/55106/1 "2024-03-09T21:53:45Z")

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Something I walked into when creating smartlists;

I would want to exclude tracks from a certain smart playlist by using e.g. Comment does not contain my-exclude-text.

Now, when I do this, the smartlist only adds the tracks when the comment field is not empty. It does not add the tracks if the comment field is empty. In my believe it should add that track as the field is empty and so indeed does not contain my-exclude-text.

Any thoughts?

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**Author:** ![Pasha](https://community.enginedj.com/user_avatar/community.enginedj.com/pasha/32/20326_2.png) [@Pasha](https://community.enginedj.com/u/Pasha)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2024, 3:23am UTC](https://community.enginedj.com/t/smartlists-does-not-contain-does-not-add-the-track-when-the-field-is-empty-and-so-does-not-contain/55106/2 "2024-03-10T03:23:16Z")

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Use a tagger to automatically change empty fields to an entry of just a space