# import from .txt file
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/import-from-txt-file/13450
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 18, 2012, 9:18pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/import-from-txt-file/13450 "2012-05-18T21:18:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Stain](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Stain)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2012, 9:18pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/import-from-txt-file/13450/1 "2012-05-18T21:18:03Z")
I'm attempting to import numerous artist and title info from an ANSI coded .txt file. Each line is separated using the 'Enter' button... Line 1 parses fine, every other line does not.
what am i doing wrong?
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### Author:  [@Vengefulbit](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Vengefulbit)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2012, 11:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/import-from-txt-file/13450/2 "2012-05-18T23:27:18Z")
Remove the extra return. It goes by each line. It will think the returns are the data and it will cause problems.
Track: 1 - 1
Track: 2 - return
Track: 3 - 2
Track: 4 - return
Track: 5 - 3
Track: 6 - return
Track: 7 - 4
And so on.
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### Author:  [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2012, 3:44am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/import-from-txt-file/13450/3 "2012-05-19T03:44:58Z")
> [@Stain](#):
>
> I'm attempting to import numerous artist and title info from an ANSI coded .txt file. Each line is separated using the 'Enter' button... Line 1 parses fine, every other line does not. what am i doing wrong?
Please upload an example excerpt of the first two or three lines.
DD.20120519.0745.CEST
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### Author:  [@Stain](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Stain)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2012, 10:22am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/import-from-txt-file/13450/4 "2012-05-19T10:22:33Z")
> [@DetlevD](#):
>
> Please upload an example excerpt of the first two or three lines.
>
> DD.20120519.0745.CEST
as requested
[problem.txt](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/0/0c6f2a965fcd40e4e456a36c0da089e9a7df6a18.txt) (249 Bytes)
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2012, 12:10pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/import-from-txt-file/13450/5 "2012-05-19T12:10:53Z")
> [@Stain](#):
>
> as requested
I do see the following problem:
The hypen is not the same if you compare line 1 with the rest.
You will find this, if you replace blank-minus-black with a semicolon. THis will replace only the first line.
And as the format string can only deal with one kind of separator, the lines that do not match do not get imported.
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### Author:  [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2012, 2:18pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/import-from-txt-file/13450/6 "2012-05-19T14:18:36Z")
At the first glance the sample text file looks good.
Each line is delimited by a CR-LF sequence.
Each line has the same field structure: Artist - Title (Comment)
But there is a quirk with the hyphens.
The first line contains a normal hyphen-minus character (code number 45).
Instead ot the hyphen-minus character the following lines contain a different character from the Windows 1252 codepage, which can be created by key combination [Alt+0150] via num pad, also known as the ndash character (german: Halbgeviertstrich).
Both characters have different size (45)|-|–|(150), but sometimes they look the same in another font (45)|-|–|(150)
I recommend to replace all the ndash characters in the input file with hyphen-minus characters.
Then Mp3tag will import the data line by line without failure, using the mask:
**%artist% - %title% (%comment%)**
See also:
~~[http://www.cs.tut.fi/cgi-bin/run/~jkorpela/char.cgi?code=002d](http://www.cs.tut.fi/cgi-bin/run/~jkorpela/char.cgi?code=002d)~~
~~[http://www.cs.tut.fi/cgi-bin/run/~jkorpela...r.cgi?code=0096](http://www.cs.tut.fi/cgi-bin/run/~jkorpela...r.cgi?code=0096)~~
[http://www.eki.ee/letter/chardata.cgi?search=hyphen](http://www.eki.ee/letter/chardata.cgi?search=hyphen)
[http://www.eki.ee/letter/chardata.cgi?search=en+dash](http://www.eki.ee/letter/chardata.cgi?search=en+dash)
[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~ggbaker/reference/characters/](http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~ggbaker/reference/characters/)
[http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/chars/index.html](http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/chars/index.html)
[http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/dashes.html](http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/dashes.html)
[http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/chars/spaces.html](http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/chars/spaces.html)
DD.20120519.1818.CEST
DD.20150104.1838.CET
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### Author:  [@Stain](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Stain)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2012, 8:54pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/import-from-txt-file/13450/7 "2012-05-20T20:54:00Z")
> [@DetlevD](#):
>
> At the first glance the sample text file looks good.
> Each line is delimited by a CR-LF sequence.
> Each line has the same field structure: Artist - Title (Comment)
>
> But there is a quirk with the hyphens.
> The first line contains a normal hyphen-minus character (code number 45).
> Instead ot the hyphen-minus character the following lines contain a different character from the Windows 1252 codepage, which can be created by key combination [Alt+0150] via num pad, also known as the ndash character (german: Halbgeviertstrich).
>
> Both characters have different size (45)|-|–|(150), but sometimes they look the same in another font (45)|-|–|(150)
>
> I recommend to replace all the ndash characters in the input file with hyphen-minus characters.
> Then Mp3tag will import the data line by line without failure, using the mask:
> **%artist% - %title% (%comment%)**
>
> See also:
> [http://www.cs.tut.fi/cgi-bin/run/~jkorpela...r.cgi?code=002d](http://www.cs.tut.fi/cgi-bin/run/~jkorpela/char.cgi?code=002d)
> [http://www.cs.tut.fi/cgi-bin/run/~jkorpela...r.cgi?code=0096](http://www.cs.tut.fi/cgi-bin/run/~jkorpela/char.cgi?code=0096)
> [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~ggbaker/reference/characters/](http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~ggbaker/reference/characters/)
>
> DD.20120519.1818.CEST
awesome guys thank you very much!
as always your help is greatly appreciated
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/import-from-txt-file/13450/8 "2026-02-09T12:23:50Z")