# tags from file, tags infos format inside the file

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tags-from-file-tags-infos-format-inside-the-file/14876
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [July 5, 2013, 8:07am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tags-from-file-tags-infos-format-inside-the-file/14876 "2013-07-05T08:07:31Z")
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### Author: ![OMH](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/e274bd/32.png) [@OMH](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/OMH)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2013, 8:07am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tags-from-file-tags-infos-format-inside-the-file/14876/1 "2013-07-05T08:07:31Z")

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I hope this title is explicit enough.

The proposition is to add the ability to keep the tag format string from the file instead of typing. The idea is to add a checkbox "Keep format from file".

In this way it will be easy to use the csv / txt export files to retore the tags informations after a change that damages the tags infos (unfortunately it happens many times, most of audio recoding tools remove or alter the tags contents).

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### Author: ![garym](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/garym/32/4822_2.png) [@garym](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/garym)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2013, 9:42am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tags-from-file-tags-infos-format-inside-the-file/14876/2 "2013-07-05T09:42:46Z")

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one can already do this automatically. Select all your files, choose CONVERT \> filename to tag, then enter the correct "mask" to map your file name info or subdirectory info to the correct tag fields. Works very well.