# Taglist-File import

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/taglist-file-import/2670
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [December 24, 2005, 5:07pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/taglist-file-import/2670 "2005-12-24T17:07:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![Arheos](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@Arheos](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Arheos)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2005, 5:07pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/taglist-file-import/2670/1 "2005-12-24T17:07:37Z")

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Hello  
I didn't find this mentioned anywhere but if I missed it feel free to remove the post.  
I want to import tags from a filelist but there was a certain tag (column in the list) that I didn't want imported.  
After some tries I found out that **%null%** as an expression causes the program to skip that tag and move to the next one.  
Hopefully it'll be usefull to others too.  
Cheers.

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### Author: ![Sebastian\_Mares](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/sebastian_mares/32/9285_2.png) [@Sebastian\_Mares](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Sebastian_Mares)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2005, 6:31pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/taglist-file-import/2670/2 "2005-12-24T18:31:22Z")

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Is **%null%** the same as **%dummy%**?

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### Author: ![Arheos](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@Arheos](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Arheos)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2005, 8:03pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/taglist-file-import/2670/3 "2005-12-24T20:03:30Z")

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Well yep, I was searching for %null% so... 😉

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### Author: ![dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/dano/32/6_2.png) [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2005, 8:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/taglist-file-import/2670/4 "2005-12-24T20:20:06Z")

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Have you checked with ALT+T if you have a field NULL = ... ?

%dummy% is used to skip

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### Author: ![Arheos](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@Arheos](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Arheos)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2005, 12:08am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/taglist-file-import/2670/5 "2005-12-25T00:08:05Z")

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I am ok, I wanted to skip a tag.  
Sebastian just mentioned %dummy% because probably everyone else knew how to use that and I didn't!  
%null% behaves exactly like %dummy%. I am not looking for an answer.  
Thanks

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### Author: ![Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/florian/32/5759_2.png) [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2005, 8:34am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/taglist-file-import/2670/6 "2005-12-25T08:34:04Z")

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> [@](#):
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> I am ok, I wanted to skip a tag.  
> Sebastian just mentioned %dummy% because probably everyone else knew how to use that and I didn't!  
> %null% behaves exactly like %dummy%. I am not looking for an answer.  
> Thanks
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I'm sorry, but this is wrong.

Using the %dummy% placeholder is the only way to skip certain tag fields from a format string. You'll get a tag field called NULL when you're using the %null% placeholder. You can remove these NULL fields using the extended tag dialog at  
 ![:mt_tag:](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/1X/e7edc735a96d8d241c37593e98667ab3dc20c6b6.png ":mt\_tag:") View \> Tags....

Best regards,  
~ Florian