# Convert | Textfile - Tag concern

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/convert-textfile-tag-concern/6476
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 18, 2008, 11:32pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/convert-textfile-tag-concern/6476 "2008-03-18T23:32:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chrisjj)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2008, 11:32pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/convert-textfile-tag-concern/6476/1 "2008-03-18T23:32:12Z")

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I imported a playlist, selected all the 1302 .WMA files, and did Convert | Textfile - Tag with a 1302-line file, but got the completion message:

Tag extracted from text file and saved in 1281 of 1302 files.

and sure enough Explorer 'Date Modified' shows only 1281 files have been touched.

This is a bit worrying. Can anyone explain why 21 files are omitted? It is not because their tags are unchanged by the operation - Mp3tag writes the file regardless. This is 100% repeatable and I can see nothing special about the affected files.

Thanks.

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### Author: ![chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chrisjj)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2008, 12:26am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/convert-textfile-tag-concern/6476/2 "2008-03-19T00:26:27Z")

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Mystery solved - the corresponding lines has some missing white sapce which cause formatstring non-match.

Florian, I suggest formatstring non-match should be reported as an error. And that Preview identify thos lines - they sure can be a real guessing game to find manually!

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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/convert-textfile-tag-concern/6476/3 "2026-02-09T12:20:51Z")

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