Love mp3tag and use it everyday, including the handy text-to-tag conversion option. I would find it very useful to be able to dump tag info to a text file, essentially a tag-to-text conversion. Plain ASCII to a .txt file would be fine. Thanks!
You could try the Export function:
Thanks LyricsLover,
Experimented just now with that, but none of the formats output are useful. I don't need a tag dump that I'll have to do a massive reformat on, just one tag per line to a file, and the inverse of the tag-to-file function would do that.
txt_taglist is probably what you're looking for and you can tailor each of the export configurations to your needs (or build completely custom ones).
But maybe you can just use Edit → Copy as Text... which copies a textual representation of the selected files to the clipboard.
A format string consisting of placeholders and scripting functions like %_filename_ext% , $num(%track%,2) , or %title% is used to determine what’s copied.
Thank you Florian,
Unfortunately, txt_taglist output configurations are not editable. I don't have an app that can read .mte files (Windows machine), so editing doesn't seem possible.
For reference, what I'm looking for is the ability to transfer title tags from one set of audio files to another (for consistency sake - I'm working on a huge classical collection). I can import easily and directly (text-to-tag), but I can't easily export as is. If this doesn't seem useful to you, I can understand that.
Doesn't F4 open the txt_taglist.mte in a text editor? Editing an export configuration can also be done via double click on the export configuration or the Edit button.
Export configurations are text files itself, so that editing is possible with any text editor, e.g., Notepad.exe.
It looks like you only want to transfer title tags. However, if you want to copy the whole set of tags from files, you can also just use Ctrl+C to copy the tags of the source list of files and use Ctrl+V to paste the tags to the target list of files.
Had to set up a file association to get the editing to work, but it's all good now. Thanks!