# Pasting lyrics from text files **URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/pasting-lyrics-from-text-files/18967 **Category:** Support **Created:** [May 8, 2017, 6:39am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/pasting-lyrics-from-text-files/18967 "2017-05-08T06:39:38Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 2
### 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: [May 8, 2017, 6:47am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/pasting-lyrics-from-text-files/18967/2 "2017-05-08T06:47:15Z")
> [@PaulM](#): > > ...The difference is, that this new directory structure does not contain the music in Ogg Vorbis format, but text files containing the lyrics. > I already collected a quite bunch of lyrics that way (though I'm not finished yet). > > But I wonder if, from mp3tag, there is any way to paste tags from a collection of files, some operation like "file content -\> tag". > > I found that "file content -\> tag" works like you select one file and tags are being copied line by line. Now, the problem is of course that my lyrics file contain multiple lines each file, but all lines need to be copied into a single tag field. > ... > > Thanks! 🙂 If you wan to copy tags from one set of files (perhaps MP3) to others (here perhaps ogg vorbis) it might be an idea to use the function "Copy tag" and "Paste tag": If order and number of source and target files match, you can copy the tags 1:1 in one go. If you stay with the text file option, then you have to make sure that you have one line per file (one record). You would have to replace the line breaks (carriage return, line feed) with some meta-character like "#". After the import you replace the "#" again with line breaks (carriage return, line feed). There is no other way. Here is a link to a similar problem: [/t/10185/1](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/10185/1) --- _[View the full topic](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/pasting-lyrics-from-text-files/18967)._