# Convert text file - tag "does not work" :-)

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/convert-text-file-tag-does-not-work/19658>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [January 3, 2018, 11:16pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/convert-text-file-tag-does-not-work/19658 "2018-01-03T23:16:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![EvJon](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/f04885/32.png) [@EvJon](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/EvJon)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2018, 11:16pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/convert-text-file-tag-does-not-work/19658/1 "2018-01-03T23:16:19Z")

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I have not been able to get text file -\> tags to work. So I created a one file test situation to see if I could figure out what the problem is. When I click File/Add Directory and enter "D:\DriveQ\Q" Mp3tag correctly lists one file j n the rPath column.  
The rPath value is: D:\DriveQ\Q\QQ\A Spelling Song For Carol.mp3

Then when I click on Convert/Text file - Tag I give it a file that contains the single line:  
D:\DriveQ\Q\QQ\A Spelling Song For Carol.mp3 / MyGenre / MyArtist / MyAlbum / MyTitle  
and the format string:  
%\_rpath%/%genre% / %artist% / %album% / %title%

If I then click on preview it shows:  
"D:\DriveQ\Q\QQ\A Spelling Song For Carol.mp3" -\>  
genre: MyGenre  
artist: MyArtist  
album: MyAlbum  
title: MyTitle  
and gives no error messages

If I click on "Ok" it gives no error messages and it says  
Imported tags from D:\DriveQ\NewTags.txt to one file

HOWEVER, the tags shown on the screen are not changed.  
The tags in the file are also not changed.  
Note that t he file is not read only.

As I was writing this I discovered a separate but similar situation. If I use the tag panel and change, for instance, the album tag and then click on File/Save tag it says it saved the tag, but again the tags shown on the screen and those in the file are not changed.

What am I doing wrong?

Many thanks for any help.

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**Author:** ![poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/poster/32/4881_2.png) [@poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/poster)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2018, 5:15am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/convert-text-file-tag-does-not-work/19658/2 "2018-01-04T05:15:08Z")

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Did you have a look at the extended tag-view with "ALT+t"?  
What does it show?  
What kind of tag-version is shown in the headline of the window?

What have you defined in  
Tools - \> Options -\> Tags -\> MPEG  
for Read, Write Remove?

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**Author:** ![EvJon](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/f04885/32.png) [@EvJon](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/EvJon)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2018, 5:55pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/convert-text-file-tag-does-not-work/19658/3 "2018-01-04T17:55:22Z")

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Thanks for your reply. IN Tools - \> Options -\> Tags -\> MPEG nothing was checked in the "Write" section, so it didn't write anything. ![:rolleyes:](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/1X/3a79e8b0b7d169b30216785521d7c6f4f895c421.gif ":rolleyes:")

Now it is almost working. It is writing tags, but not the correct ones. If I can't find an answer to my new problem I'll start another thread for that because it is a different problem.

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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, 12:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/convert-text-file-tag-does-not-work/19658/4 "2026-02-09T12:27:10Z")

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