new trial user here. is it possible with your app to upload a csv file? i have successfully downloaded a csv file with all of the tags from a large list of mp3 files. now after manually editing the csv file, am i able to upload it back to the large list of files and apply the updated tags? if so,…

See the documentation: [image] Rename Files and Import Tags from Files Documentation Mp3tag provides a variety of possibilities to get tag information from parts of the filename or to rename files based on the information stored in the tag of a file. The base concept behin…

I’m trying to fix ~700 files where missing tags cant be grabbed from the file name. its cool that this app can do that, but i would think that my situation is the rule rather than the exception. I’m a bit surprised that the option of exporting to csv even exists at all if you can’t then use the csv…

[image] germ: I’m curious what people are using the csv for? So am I. That is why I am asking. I would not go through the trouble with text export and import (csv is nothing more - and as you can export more or less any format that is text based, you could also export HTML, XML, RTF and prob…

so are you saying that you can import a csv then? how do i do this?

[image] ohrenkino: If you want to copy the ARTIST to the ALBUMARTIST in my case the missing tags do not exist anywhere. not in the file name, not anywhere within the metadata.

[image] germ: so are you saying that you can import a csv then? [image] Rename Files and Import Tags from Files Documentation Mp3tag provides a variety of possibilities to get tag information from parts of the filename or to rename files based on the information sto…

[image] germ: in my case the missing tags do not exist anywhere. not in the file name, not anywhere within the metadata. So how do you know what the correct metadata would be? How would a csv data transfer help as that would mean that you first type in the data (in probably the spreadsheet) a…

[image] germ: i have successfully downloaded a csv file with all of the tags from a large list of mp3 files. Who made this list and how come it exactly matches your music files?

i selected ~700 mp3 files from the mac’s finder and dropped them into mp3tag app’s main window. then clicked the export button. voila! csv file downloaded. now if i could just figure out how to import it back into the file list (after editing of course) i would be a happy camper! any idea how to do…

yes I’m filling in the missing metadata manually in a spreadsheet

someone please just say “no mp3tag can not import csv files”

Upload csv file to apply tags

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ohrenkino January 28, 2025, 5:53am 2

See the documentation:

On a side note: which functions are you missing in MP3tag that you have to edit tag data in a csv file and go through the trouble of the export and import?