# JSON Files
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/json-files/16909
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [May 19, 2015, 6:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/json-files/16909 "2015-05-19T18:28:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@jackpots](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/jackpots)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2015, 6:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/json-files/16909/1 "2015-05-19T18:28:58Z")
Is it possible for Mp3tag to …
1. Save locally the files obtained from the TagSources queries?
2. Can it read local (not http served) json files within the TagSources process?
I am aware it would need to be scripted, however, is it possible?
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### Author:  [@vkostas](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/vkostas)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2015, 2:15pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/json-files/16909/2 "2015-05-20T14:15:53Z")
1. Yes, with debugger option (t keeps only the last file though).
2. No. A workaround is to install php server and to access the stored files from there.
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### Author:  [@jackpots](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/jackpots)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2015, 2:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/json-files/16909/3 "2015-05-20T14:27:05Z")
> [@Victor Kostas](#):
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> 1. Yes, with debugger option (t keeps only the last file though).
> 2. No. A workaround is to install php server and to access the stored files from there.
Thanks.
I found a JSON Server on GitHub ([GitHub - typicode/json-server: Get a full fake REST API with zero coding in less than 30 seconds (seriously)](https://github.com/typicode/json-server)) that may do the trick for #2. I haven't tested it as yet though.
My intention is to use this as a local backup/restore of tags (many many tracks worth over many many years from many disparate sources which I could not easily reconstitute). Mp3tag needs an option to read csv headers or import json files or similar.
Thanks again.
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### Author:  [@vkostas](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/vkostas)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2015, 3:11pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/json-files/16909/4 "2015-05-20T15:11:50Z")
> [@jackpots](#):
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> Thanks.
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> I found a JSON Server on GitHub ([GitHub - typicode/json-server: Get a full fake REST API with zero coding in less than 30 seconds (seriously)](https://github.com/typicode/json-server)) that may do the trick for #2. I haven't tested it as yet though.
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> My intention is to use this as a local backup/restore of tags (many many tracks worth over many many years from many disparate sources which I could not easily reconstitute). Mp3tag needs an option to read csv headers or import json files or similar.
>
> Thanks again.
Well, you can backup your tags. Search the forum and you will find info.
You can import tags from text file. Each line contains tags of a single track.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2015, 3:39pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/json-files/16909/5 "2015-05-20T15:39:56Z")
> [@Victor Kostas](#):
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> Well, you can backup your tags. Search the forum and you will find info.
> You can import tags from text file. Each line contains tags of a single track.
I would like to add a little more specific information to that:
for exports ther is the $list function that outputs the contents of all fields of a file to the report file.
For fields that contain linebreaks you have to devise a special treatment as the linebreaks would violate the csv-format which requires a single line for each record. The linebreak is in fact the end-of-record marker. E.g. UNSYNCEDLYRICS very often has linebreaks.
If you have various sets of fields in the different files, you will have difficutlties with the $list function as you will not get a proper csv file.
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### Author:  [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2015, 4:41pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/json-files/16909/6 "2015-05-20T16:41:21Z")
> [@jackpots](#):
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> ... My intention is to use this as a local backup/restore of tags ... Mp3tag needs an option to read csv headers or import json files or similar. ...
You can use Mp3tag export feature to write tag-field content to text file.
For example, create an export script and apply a code line like the following ...
**$char(9)'{'$regexp($regexp($regexp($regexp($list('"','": "','",'$char(13)$char(9)$char(10)),'\r\n','U+000DU+000A'),'\r\t\n','\r\n'),'\\\\','\\\\'),',\Z',)'}'**
... maybe escaping of the double-apostrophe must be worked in additionally.
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