Not sure whether to use Bug Reports or Mac category!
MP3Tag Version 1.7.4 (75)
MacOS Monterrey 12.6.1 (21G217)
If I select multiple rows or columns in the file list and copy, then paste into another app (or drag the selection), I do not get every column's data in tab-delimited format as I would expect. Instead I get only some columns' data, separated by spaces.
Worse, if I paste into a spreadsheet (Numbers), I only get one row's data! Or if I drag them, I get some weird button that plays the file (I think it actually embeds the audio file into the spreadsheet?). I should get the copied/dragged rows' file list data dropped into the spreadsheet table, as text.
Either way this makes it very hard to paste the data into a spreadsheet, for example.
You have to use the Export function to have the tag info copied out to a file, usually in a format like csv. Then you can open that in Wxcel and have te selected data available in columns and rows.
If you use copy and paste in macOS, it's up to the target app to decide which contents from the pasteboard take priority. Mp3tag provides a variety of representations of the files you're copying:
file promises for copying in, e.g., Finder or other file-management related apps
file URLs for apps that take URLs
a textual representation that is created using a format string that is configurable via Preferences → Export → Copy Format
Regarding Numbers: I don't know how to make it paste into separate columns (I'm not a Numbers user). A quick test showed that copy-/pasting tab-delimited data from a plain text file also does not separate it into different columns. Do you know how to make this work?
However, pasting to a CSV file or using File → Export... as indicated by @MotleyG works (you can also drag&drop the CSV file).
Well, the source app is responsible for providing data in whatever formts it can, and the target app decides which of those to use.
Anyhow, I did not know about the preferences setting! Thank you for that info. I will at least be able to get the data out, even if it isn't as straightforward as just being able to copy & paste the data that I see in the file list. It's a lot quicker to set up the columns there than to type the format string in the preferences panel. (Apple's Music app has definitely set a precedent for my expectations.)
(As for Numbers, it does its best to interpret raw text, and temporarily shows a button that allows you to adjust how it does things, between fixed-width fields and columns delimited by various characters. I do not know why it is only taking the first row of pasted data though, that is pretty clearly a bug in Numbers. But, I can paste into a text document in TextEdit and then into Numbers.)
