# Feature request: keep existing tags when pasting
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-keep-existing-tags-when-pasting/15625
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [April 1, 2014, 5:47am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-keep-existing-tags-when-pasting/15625 "2014-04-01T05:47:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Sabio](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Sabio)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2014, 5:47am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-keep-existing-tags-when-pasting/15625/1 "2014-04-01T05:47:19Z")
It would be nice to have an option to keep existing tags when pasting.
Say, I have an old\_file.mp3 with Title and Artist. And a new\_file.mp3 with RG tags.
Currently, if I copy tags from old\_file and paste them into new\_file, the RG tags will be lost.
It would be useful if there was an option to keep in the target file all the tags that are not present (or present but empty) in the source file.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2014, 5:52am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-keep-existing-tags-when-pasting/15625/2 "2014-04-01T05:52:54Z")
> [@Sabio](#):
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> It would be nice to have an option to keep existing tags when pasting.
> ... present but empty...
MP3tag does not save empty fields. Empty fields get deleted.
You can emulate this function with an export and import of data: export the fields you want to transfer to the target file.
Then import the exported text file data into the target file.
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### Author:  [@Sabio](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Sabio)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2014, 8:01pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-keep-existing-tags-when-pasting/15625/3 "2014-04-02T20:01:40Z")
That's even better.
I only mentioned "present but empty" tags for the following scenario:
- source file has an empty tag TAG\_NAME
- target file has that tag filled with some value TAG\_NAME=value
- when copying tags from source and pasting into target I wouldn't want the 'value' to be overwritten with blank.
And as long as you say the empty tags are ignored, it shouldn't be a problem.
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### Author:  [@poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/poster)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2014, 3:20am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-keep-existing-tags-when-pasting/15625/4 "2014-04-03T03:20:14Z")
> [@Sabio](#):
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> - when copying tags from source and pasting into target I wouldn't want the 'value' to be overwritten with blank.
> And as long as you say the empty tags are ignored, it shouldn't be a problem.
There is no blank tag in MP3Tag.
When you copy and paste from one mp3 to another the tag-section in file 1 will be the same as the tag-section in file 2. Not extisting tags in file 1 will be deleted in file 2.
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### Author:  [@Sabio](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Sabio)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2014, 3:45am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-keep-existing-tags-when-pasting/15625/5 "2014-04-03T03:45:31Z")
I know that.
That is why I've suggested this feature. Since sometimes it might be useful to keep the tags that don't exist in the source file.
Please read my post at the beginning of the topic.
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### Author:  [@poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/poster)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2014, 3:54am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-keep-existing-tags-when-pasting/15625/6 "2014-04-03T03:54:04Z")
I read your first post but your second looked like you misunderstood Ohrenkino, because you still kept writing about "empty tags".