# Request: Write export configuration when exporting tags to text
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/request-write-export-configuration-when-exporting-tags-to-text/15808
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [June 14, 2014, 5:06pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/request-write-export-configuration-when-exporting-tags-to-text/15808 "2014-06-14T17:06:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@aax](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/aax)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2014, 5:06pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/request-write-export-configuration-when-exporting-tags-to-text/15808/1 "2014-06-14T17:06:21Z")
Could you add the option to include the used export configuration as the first line of the text file?
Then, also, loading that configuration automatically in **"Text file - Tag" → "Format string"** from the selected file would be quite handy.
For example:
```
%title% - %artist% - %album% - %year% - %track% - %genre% - %albumartist%
Space Operators - Jeppe Hasseriis - Escape Velocity - 2012 - 1/9 - Electronic - Dynatron
...
```
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2014, 7:22am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/request-write-export-configuration-when-exporting-tags-to-text/15808/2 "2014-06-15T07:22:35Z")
I know some programs that allow to import data that have a feature like
"First line contains field names".
If you have closer look at the reports then you have 2 sources:
For export it is your export-script which has all the definitions.
But as all variables in % get filled with the actual contents of the field, it is not possible to write them (the fieldnames) as the first line in a file.
Also, a report must not necessarily generate just one line for a CSV file but can produce elaborate reports in the RTF or HTML format. So it would be hard to guess what to add.
MP3tag does not interpret what a target system might do with the export result.
It may well be that you prefer the csv-export but that is not true for many other users. The design to create a decent csv-export (or any other) is in the hands of the user, MP3tag does not interfere.
For the import I would agree that it might be handy to have an option like I mentioned above. If the source program supplies such information then it would be nice to be able to tell MP3tag not to generate an error when it stumbles over such a first line but to make something of it. It might just as well be that this first line of a csv file is read and then offered as import mask for further editing.
For the export, though, I do not see much chance.
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### Author:  [@aax](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/aax)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2014, 4:05pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/request-write-export-configuration-when-exporting-tags-to-text/15808/3 "2014-06-15T16:05:22Z")
You're right, of course. I use the text files mostly for backing-up tags, so I didn't think about other possible uses.
Maybe adding "import configurations" would be a good idea (selectable in "Convert" → "Text file - Tag").
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### Author:  [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2014, 4:08pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/request-write-export-configuration-when-exporting-tags-to-text/15808/4 "2014-06-15T16:08:30Z")
QUOTE (aax @ Jun 14 2014, 21:06) \<{POST\_SNAPBACK}\>
Could you add the option to include the used export configuration as the first line of the text file? Then, also, loading that configuration automatically in **"Text file - Tag" → "Format string"** from the selected file would be quite handy. For example:
```
%title% - %artist% - %album% - %year% - %track% - %genre% - %albumartist%
Space Operators - Jeppe Hasseriis - Escape Velocity - 2012 - 1/9 - Electronic - Dynatron
...
```
Read there, perhaps it can help to understand the situation with CSV file management in Mp3tag ...
[Export 2 CSV (Comma in fields)](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/12129/2)
[Zu doof für Export?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/4473/11)
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