# Suggestion / Wish for option to Paste text onto Multiple Lines
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggestion-wish-for-option-to-paste-text-onto-multiple-lines/43776
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [December 5, 2018, 12:56am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggestion-wish-for-option-to-paste-text-onto-multiple-lines/43776 "2018-12-05T00:56:19Z")
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### Author:  [@Geoff](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Geoff)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2018, 12:56am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggestion-wish-for-option-to-paste-text-onto-multiple-lines/43776/1 "2018-12-05T00:56:19Z")
Mp3Tag is so powerful that I use this app as my default audio file Renamer.
For simple add / replace / delete of text in a filename there are, to be honest,
some 'more user-friendly' apps (for non-technical type of users) out there with
a nice and tidy interface (eg Winsome File Renamer). Yes, Mp3Tag can itself,
without any reference to tags, add / replace / delete using $replace and $regex etc.
But there is one Renaming task that Mp3Tag, and many other Renaming apps, cannot do (or if some can,
not in a user-friendly simple manner). And that is to be able to simply paste a list of text over an existing
list of text (eg filenames or, for that matter, a column of tag data).
One app that _can_ do this is "Everything". So I have an Action in Mp3Tag that in effect transfers selected filenames in Mp3Tag to Everything.
But it would be nice if Mp3Tag allowed pasting of multi-line text in any of its columns (eg the %artist% tag column), but especially the Filename column (perhaps, as in Everything, this can be done in a separate pop-up dialog box with two sections - old text lines / pasteable new text lines - before transferring the 'new' column of text back into the main Mp3Tag window).
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2018, 6:20am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggestion-wish-for-option-to-paste-text-onto-multiple-lines/43776/2 "2018-12-05T06:20:23Z")
> [@Geoff](#):
>
> And that is to be able to simply paste a list of text over an existing
> list of text
If you use the function "Convert\>Textfile-Tag" then you have it.
see the help for more details:
> **[Import Tags from Text Files – Mp3tag Documentation](https://docs.mp3tag.de/converters/import-tags-from-text-files/)**
>
> Documentation on Text File to Tag, a converter to import tags from text files. Mp3tag is the universal Tag Editor.
And just by the way: the program is called MP3tag - so it is intended for tagging. If you have your tags filled properly the you can rename your files in a probably much more consistent way than to fiddle about with only the filename in the first place.
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### Author:  [@Geoff](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Geoff)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2018, 9:33am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggestion-wish-for-option-to-paste-text-onto-multiple-lines/43776/3 "2018-12-05T09:33:21Z")
> [@ohrenkino](#):
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> And just by the way: the program is called MP3tag - so it is intended for tagging.
Thanks for your response. I predicted a focus by some users on tabs (fair enough), but MP3tag has potential to, and in fact probably does, satisfy a far wider user base. I use MP3tag's Convert\>Tag-Filename a lot, but _my_ prime focus is efficiently constructing the filename. Your alternative solutions work well, but involve extra steps, which matters when you want to rename countless batches of audio files.
( currently, if I want to prefix a filename with, say, artist [and the artist tag is blank] I use Convert\>Filename-Filename \> %1 \> 'artist-name' - %1 ). But an Action with an $input function would be quicker and easier.
In fact, if MP3tag is just for fiddling with tags, why is there a Convert\>Filename-Filename option 🙂
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2018, 9:45am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggestion-wish-for-option-to-paste-text-onto-multiple-lines/43776/4 "2018-12-05T09:45:59Z")
> [@Geoff](#):
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> currently, if I want to prefix a filename with, say, artist [and the artist tag is blank] I use Convert\>Filename-Filename \> %1 \> 'artist-name' - %1 ).
I don't understand: you know the artist name and then you put it first into the filename instead of the artist field?
There are so many ways that lead to Rome: Your example could just as nicely be achieved with the Convert\>Tag-Tag function for \_FILENAME and the
Format string: %artist% - %\_filename%
or
Format string: ABBA - %\_filename%
or even better: import the data from the filename into the corresponding fields, then use Convert\>Tag-Filename with e.g.
Format string: %artist% \_ %album% \_ $num(%track%,2) \_ %title%