I'm trying to help someone using Mp3tag to update tags from a file. He has the data in an Excel spreadsheet and he created a CSV file. Here's a sample:
SF001,1,Straight Up,Paula Abdul
SF001,2,Faith,George Michael
SF001,3,White Wedding,Billy Idol
The first field is the folder name so I told him to use the following format string:
%dummy%,%track%,%title%,%artist%
But the error he's getting is "File ... cannot be opened for reading." I downloaded and tested the file and it worked fine for me so I'm not sure what's wrong.
Perhaps the Excel export CSV file ...
... has a BOM marker at the beginning of the file?
... has a header line?
... is not a plain text file?
It is recommended to write also the complete path to the music file into each line to the CSV file to help Mp3tag to find the related musicfile, for example:
Tell "miger" to log in here into the Mp3tag forum, there might be other users willing to help on basic user level.
There are several different methods around here on the board to construct a save line format of CSV/SSV/TSV or such other delimiter character.
I like to use a pipe symbol as delimiter and double quotes to enclose literals.
Others like the star symbol as delimiter, because the star symbol is a forbidden character on file system paths.
Take into account, that the excel setup and understanding of what is CSV and what is the delimiter is system language dependent.
... and by the way .. it looks like that your pupil cannot work with Excel. He does not know how to save the excel worksheet as other format.
He tries to simulate CSV by inserting new columns into the worksheet, which cells contain the delimiter character. Therefore it is possible that he creates much more fields in the export line and runs into trouble over trouble.
Tell him to use simple notepad and guide him to reach the goal basically with one correct formatted CSV line.
If he got one line working, then millions of lines will work.
Hi all, I've registered to try to help sort my problem out.
I admit i'm a real novice with Excel and i'll now read the links posted on CSV files to learn more.
I'd like to point out that Stanman has gone out of his way to help me with this and i now want to work this out as much for his sake as mine.
I thought DetlevD,that you came across as a little condescending to Stanman who is after all,only trying to help me with his PC knowledge, but of course i'm sure you didn't mean to do so. You are both obviously experienced programmers while i'm a complete novice.
Anyway, i'm grateful for everyone's input :
By the way, the "cannot be opened for reading" message was because i had Excel open!
