Is there a way of importing exported tags?

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Hi,

I Just found this gr8 software for editing music , i hope it will be of use.
Still didn't see all futures but main question in this thread is.

ex: We have 2 folders named Folder 1 and Folder 2

We can export tags of folder 1,
but can we import tags like name , artist or any other columns from exported folder 1 tags to folder 2 ?

Thanks in Advance

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If number and order of the files in folder1 match that of folder2 then you can simply copy and paste the tags.

The other function to import data from a textfile is Convert>Text file-Tag

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Hi, I am a new contributor and very basic user. This seems to be the question I am asking. My duplicate (backup) file meets the criteria you state and I wish to copy/paste tags to it. Please could you point me to the instructions for this or give a brief explanation? I would be very grateful. Thanks in advance.

On edit: I have exported to both html and csv files but using the convert function just drops the text info into one field. I presume I need to format the string chain but that isn’t intuitive to me.

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Export to CSV (or any other format that exports one file per line) is the way to go. Please check this topic from the documentation, and -- if any questions remain -- don't hesitate to ask:

Alternatively, you can just load the original files and the duplicates and copy the metadata from the original via Ctrl+C and paste to the duplicates via Ctrl+V.

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Thank you. My csv file has column info (separated by semicolons) and tag info. When I use convert text file to tag it pastes only the column info (separated by semicolons, including some columns I haven’t selected) into the sixth column (album artist). Adjusting the format string doesn’t seem to affect this.

I don’t have a background in computer language I’m afraid. I use the cut and paste method you suggest at present but it is too time consuming for the backup process I wish to complete. Im also interested in taking advantage of the functionality of this powerful programme.

Thanks again.

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The cut&paste method means:
Select all the source files
use Edit>Copy
(which copies the whole tags)
Select all the target files
use Edit>Paste
(which pastes the whole tags)

So it is neither tag field by tag field nor file by file.
The assumption is that the

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I see, thank you. I will experiment with that.

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That’s exactly what I needed, thanks for your help.