# Convert text file - tag question for newbie
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/convert-text-file-tag-question-for-newbie/69484
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 20, 2025, 9:39pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/convert-text-file-tag-question-for-newbie/69484 "2025-08-20T21:39:17Z")
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### Author:  [@everay](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/everay)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2025, 9:39pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/convert-text-file-tag-question-for-newbie/69484/1 "2025-08-20T21:39:17Z")
I’m not sure if this is possible, but I have some files I’d like to tag so the filename is replaced by the live show setlist.
I’ve attached a screenshot of original text file and the windows file explorer file of the folder contents which is 6 flac files and 1 text file.
I’d like to know if there is some way to ignore the first two lines of text (performers and location info) and replace the filenames “Track01” etc…. with the actual filenames including the number of the song in front.
If it helps, I can add the word “Setlist” or “Tracks” in the line above the song tracks beginning with “1 Announcements” to indicate where I want Mp3Tag to start after to replace filenames with the songs.
For now, I’m not concerned about genre, date, title, venue, since my music library is already setup to browse by genre, artist and this show in the Miles Davis artist folder will read MD1969-11-07Berlin
At one point I had foobar’s masstagger and their traders friend / live show tagger plugin figured out. I think it picked up on the word setlist or tracks or perhaps the sequence of numbers in front of the songs to automatically read the text file in the songs folder and rename the tracks.
If there were a way to highlight the lines in the text file I wanted Mp3Tag to convert (the six songs), that would be great, but I don’t think that’s possible.
This is my first post and I don’t see an option to preview it. Hope it is ok.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2025, 9:47pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/convert-text-file-tag-question-for-newbie/69484/2 "2025-08-20T21:47:04Z")
> [@everay](#):
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> and replace the filenames “Track01” etc…. with the actual filenames including the number of the song in front.
No, it is not possible to rename a file directly with an import from a text file.
The import of tag data from a text file either relies on the sequence of files and records in the text file (first record is assigned to the first selected file, second record to the second file and so on) or each record has a reference to the filename - so the filename has to be kept as a constant.
You can rename files from the tag data.
So it would be advisable to put the data into the correct tag fields first and and then use that data to create (new) filenames.
You could also import the data from from the text file into a user-defined field and then use that user-defined field to rename the file.
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### Author:  [@everay](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/everay)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2025, 10:01pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/convert-text-file-tag-question-for-newbie/69484/3 "2025-08-20T22:01:09Z")
> [@ohrenkino](#):
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> The import of tag data from a text file either relies on the sequence of files and records in the text file (first record is assigned to the first selected file, second record to the second file and so on) or each record has a reference to the filename - so the filename has to be kept as a constant.
OK, thank you!
I was hoping there was an ‘easy’ way to tell mp3tag where to start the sequence.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2025, 10:01pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/convert-text-file-tag-question-for-newbie/69484/4 "2025-09-19T22:01:49Z")
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