# Exporting, adjusting and importing a TAB delimited file

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/exporting-adjusting-and-importing-a-tab-delimited-file/6096>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [January 19, 2008, 8:14am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/exporting-adjusting-and-importing-a-tab-delimited-file/6096 "2008-01-19T08:14:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![ebijs](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/7feea3/32.png) [@ebijs](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ebijs)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2008, 8:14am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/exporting-adjusting-and-importing-a-tab-delimited-file/6096/1 "2008-01-19T08:14:33Z")

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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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**Author:** ![Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/florian/32/5759_2.png) [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2008, 8:47am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/exporting-adjusting-and-importing-a-tab-delimited-file/6096/2 "2008-01-19T08:47:17Z")

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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:](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/1X/fb599927d56a3dea5261627b2c420f3f21fabb2d.png ":mt\_tff:") Text file - Tag.

Kind regards,  
Florian

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**Author:** ![jrsousa2](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/278dde/32.png) [@jrsousa2](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/jrsousa2)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2017, 3:06am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/exporting-adjusting-and-importing-a-tab-delimited-file/6096/3 "2017-11-27T03:06:56Z")

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

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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/exporting-adjusting-and-importing-a-tab-delimited-file/6096/4 "2026-02-09T12:20:43Z")

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