Exporting, adjusting and importing a TAB delimited file

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Hello,

What a tool! WOW!

I need some information about exporting, adjusting and importing a TAB delimited file.

I have setup the following export file:

$filename(csv,utf-16)Title$char(9)Artist$char(9)Album$char(9)Track$char(9)Year$char(9)Length$char(9)Size$char(9)Last Modified$char(9)Filename$char(9)
$loop(%_filename_ext%)%title%$char(9)%artist%$char(9)%album%$char(9)%track%$char(9)%year%$char(9)%_length_seconds%$char(9)%_file_size%$char(9)%_file_mod_date%$char(9)%_folderpath%%_filename_ext%$char(9)
$loopend()build on %_date% with %_app% - the universal Tag editor - <a href="http://www.mp3tag.de/en/" target="_blank">http://www.mp3tag.de/en/</a>

After exporting I opened the file in ms Excel and made some adjustment in titles, artists, year, etc, etc.

I save the file and now I want to import this file to override the existing tags.

At this point I’m loosing the program logic.
Which steps should I take to import this tab file and write back the new tags to the files?

Thanks in advance.

Sijbe,

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I'd first remove the header and the footer from the export configuration as they make it hard to re-import the data:

$filename(csv,utf-16)$loop(%_filename_ext%)%title%$char(9)%artist%$char(9)%album%$char(9)%track%$char(9)%year%$char(9)%_length_seconds%$char(9)%_file_size%$char(9)%_file_mod_date%$char(9)%_folderpath%%_filename_ext%$char(9)
$loopend()

After exporting and adjusting the tags you can re-import them using the Converter :mt_tff: Text file - Tag.

Kind regards,
Florian

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What a tool indeed, this program is very powerful.
Thanks for the tip on creating a tab delimited export config.