Tag from an external file

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Hello --- I been ripping some older cd and the onlne db have the titles wrong don't have the cd listed at all ---- is there a way to use an external file to get the info into mp3tag? Thanks

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See the help on Convert>Text file - Tag

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Thanks for your reply — so if I have multiple files/albums to added tag to I can use the format

%_path% / %artist% / %title% / %album% / %year%

to process all the files? Lastly is there a list of delimiter character that can be uses and is the delimiter always in the form — is the space required around the character? Thanks

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There is no list of separating characters as this depends on the data - the only criterion is that it has to be unique. So if you have the / slash as part of the data it does not work.
An no, it is not necessary to have a 3-character-separator (space, visible character, space), the printable character is enough.
If you use an external program that allows to insert tab characters (ASCII 9), you can define an import mask with this invisible character if all the visible ones fail.

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thanks --- perfect --- I wanted to use the tab ---- thanks again

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Hello --- If I use tab character (0x09) how do I specify that in the template? Just type the tab character?

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That does not work, does it?
I think you have to write the import mask in a separate program where you can enter the TAB as TAB and copy&paste it to the input field in MP3tag.

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thanks --- I thought that would be the case ---- would it make sense to add a "tab" directive in the list of tag fields that can be added to the template?

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Could you make the idea to have a special input option for the tab character a feature request in a new thread?