# Import tags from text file

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/import-tags-from-text-file/8093
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 17, 2009, 11:02am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/import-tags-from-text-file/8093 "2009-03-17T11:02:15Z")
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### Author: ![DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/detlevd/32/123_2.png) [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2009, 1:56pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/import-tags-from-text-file/8093/2 "2009-03-17T13:56:52Z")

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> [@MattTown](#):
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> ... Could you advise on how the program selects which track to apply the tags to? ...

- No empty lines in the textfile.
- Identical amount of lines in textfile and selected tracks within Mp3tag.
- Each line in the textfile must have an absolute filepath entry.
- Import tag mask must have a "%\_path%" entry.
- The binding relation is the absolute filepath.

DD.20090317.1556.CET

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