# Mp3tag adding pipe characters to lyrics in some cases

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-adding-pipe-characters-to-lyrics-in-some-cases/44167
**Category:** Fixed Bugs
**Tags:** bug-fixed
**Created:** [January 11, 2019, 7:10am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-adding-pipe-characters-to-lyrics-in-some-cases/44167 "2019-01-11T07:10:56Z")
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### Author: ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2019, 7:21am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-adding-pipe-characters-to-lyrics-in-some-cases/44167/2 "2019-01-11T07:21:59Z")

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I would say that deleting user input would be a bug.  
The way MP3tag behaves now leads to a valid format in the field and safeguards the user input.  
You could instead find out how the invalid format got into the field in the first place and/or correct it before you add further lyrics.

See also this thread which describes why the pipe characters are now kept:

> [@\[F\] Pasting Lyrics into the UNSYNCEDLYRICS tag, gets cut of when there is a Pipe Symbol somehere in the text](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/f-pasting-lyrics-into-the-unsyncedlyrics-tag-gets-cut-of-when-there-is-a-pipe-symbol-somehere-in-the-text/11617/5):
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> Just came across this behaviour myself. Thought I should bump it as it doesn't have a response as yet. e.g. [C] or [X] I am importing from a text file with Text File-\>Tag. The preview shows the full lyric will be imported but everything after the first pipe is cut off.

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