# breaking the lines

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/breaking-the-lines/4965
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [June 3, 2007, 3:32pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/breaking-the-lines/4965 "2007-06-03T15:32:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author: ![A\_Weakling\_Child](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/a_weakling_child/32/62_2.png) [@A\_Weakling\_Child](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/A_Weakling_Child)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2007, 3:32pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/breaking-the-lines/4965/1 "2007-06-03T15:32:25Z")

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hi guys,

i'd like to have some Discogs info in the Comment field. i tried using the Format value action but encountered one issue - it lets you to paste only one line in the Format string

specifically, i need to have the following in the Format string:

```
Label: %publisher%
Catalog#: %catalog%
Format: %Mediatype%
Country: %country%
Style: %Style%
Credits: %Credits%
Notes: %Notes%

```

but as it lets you to paste only one line i can have Label: %publisher% only

is there some code that lets you to break the lines, smth like

```
Label: %publisher%<BREAK>Catalog#: %catalog%<BREAK>Format: %Mediatype%<BREAK>Country: %country%<BREAK>Style: %Style%<BREAK>Credits: %Credits%<BREAK>Notes: %Notes%?

```

or another way to do it?

thank you in advance!

and thank you for your great software!!!

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### Author: ![dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/dano/32/6_2.png) [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2007, 4:10pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/breaking-the-lines/4965/2 "2007-06-03T16:10:37Z")

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$char(13)$char(10)

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### Author: ![A\_Weakling\_Child](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/a_weakling_child/32/62_2.png) [@A\_Weakling\_Child](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/A_Weakling_Child)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2007, 7:39am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/breaking-the-lines/4965/3 "2007-06-05T07:39:47Z")

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the following is what i see in Winamp now:  
 ![](http://shevchenko.hostopia.com/temp/Winamp.png)

and in Mp3tag:  
 ![](http://shevchenko.hostopia.com/temp/Mp3tag.png)

however, when i view Extended Tags i see this:  
 ![](http://shevchenko.hostopia.com/temp/Mp3tag2.png)  
which is exactly what i need

the following is what i have in the Format string:

```
Label: %publisher%$char(13)$char(10)Catalog#: %catalog%$char(13)$char(10)Format: %Mediatype%$char(13)$char(10)Country: %country%$char(13)$char(10)Style: %Style%$char(13)$char(10)Credits: %Credits%$char(13)$char(10)Notes: %Notes%

```

please advise or let me know if you need more info. thanks in advance

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### Author: ![DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/detlevd/32/123_2.png) [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2007, 9:55am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/breaking-the-lines/4965/4 "2007-06-05T09:55:56Z")

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> [@A Weakling Child](#):
>
> the following is what i see in Winamp now: ... and in Mp3tag: ... however, when i view Extended Tags i see this: ... please advise or let me know if you need more info. thanks in advance

Make sure that you use a compatible ID3 tag format between Winamp and Mp3tag, say ID3v2.3 and UTF-16 character encoding.

DD.20070605.1355

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### Author: ![dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/dano/32/6_2.png) [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2007, 11:07am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/breaking-the-lines/4965/5 "2007-06-05T11:07:49Z")

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The problem is that Mp3tag saves line breaks in Linux format ($0A) and Winamp can read only windows line breaks ($13 $10)  
The ID3v2 standard even says that only $0A is allowed, but there are programs that do it differently.

You can fix it temporarily with an action "Regular Expression"  
RE: \a  
Replace: \d\a

But when you save the tag again in Mp3tag it gets changed again.

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### Author: ![A\_Weakling\_Child](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/a_weakling_child/32/62_2.png) [@A\_Weakling\_Child](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/A_Weakling_Child)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2007, 6:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/breaking-the-lines/4965/6 "2007-06-10T18:19:37Z")

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thanks a lot - it worked!

just curious about that Linux and Windows line breaks and what are those \a and \d\a. perhaps you have a link that can explain what's that...

thanks again for your help

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### Author: ![LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/c6cbf5/32.png) [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2007, 7:14pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/breaking-the-lines/4965/7 "2007-06-10T19:14:43Z")

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\xhh is a RegEx for hexadecimal characters, hh is the hexcode itself

\a = RegEx for "Line Feed (LF)" / ASCII 10 / Escape \n  
and  
\d = RegEx for "Carriage Return (CR)" / ASCII 13 / Escape \r

Both are non-printing characters.

English: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carriage\_return](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carriage_return)  
German: [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeilenumbruch](http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeilenumbruch)

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### Author: ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/breaking-the-lines/4965/8 "2026-02-09T12:20:19Z")

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