Copy/drag from file list not working as expected (Mac)

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).