# \[X\] "Text File to Tag" doesn't work
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-text-file-to-tag-doesnt-work/15178
**Category:** No Bugs
**Created:** [November 6, 2013, 4:07pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-text-file-to-tag-doesnt-work/15178 "2013-11-06T16:07:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Cananas](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Cananas)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2013, 4:07pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-text-file-to-tag-doesnt-work/15178/1 "2013-11-06T16:07:14Z")
It seems that "Text File to Tag" doesn't since prior versión to 2.58.
After you select the pattern to use, if you click the ok button, nothing happens.
Regards.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2013, 4:46pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-text-file-to-tag-doesnt-work/15178/2 "2013-11-06T16:46:28Z")
I have no problem.
Could you supply the first line of your textfile and show us the pattern you use?
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### Author:  [@garym](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/garym)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2013, 12:06am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-text-file-to-tag-doesnt-work/15178/3 "2013-11-07T00:06:28Z")
> [@Cananas](#):
>
> It seems that "Text File to Tag" doesn't since prior versión to 2.58.
>
> After you select the pattern to use, if you click the ok button, nothing happens.
>
> Regards.
recently used this with 2.57 and 2.58 and worked fine.
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### Author:  [@Cananas](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Cananas)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2013, 2:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-text-file-to-tag-doesnt-work/15178/4 "2013-11-08T14:20:09Z")
OK, now it's fixed.
I tried uninstalling the program without deleting the config files with no luck.
Then, I uninstalled the program AND the config files. That's the trick. Now it works properly.
Probably something was wrong after one update...
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### Author:  [@wisconsinray](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/wisconsinray)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2015, 11:56pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-text-file-to-tag-doesnt-work/15178/5 "2015-06-16T23:56:34Z")
Version 2.70
I have been trying to use “Text file – Tag” unsuccessfully for several days, unable to see what I was doing wrong.
Per the help files I tried this.
Line in file: Artist / Title / Album / Year
Format string: %artist% / %title% / %album% / %year%
But that doesn’t work, I also tried this.
Line in file: Artist/Title/Album/Year
Format string: %artist%/%title%/%album%/%year%
But that doesn’t work either.
Then I tried comma delimited text.
Line in file: Artist,Title,Album,Year
Format string: %artist%,%title%,%album%,%year%
This works just fine.
Am I doing something wrong, or is this a real bug?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2015, 4:17am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-text-file-to-tag-doesnt-work/15178/6 "2015-06-17T04:17:53Z")
I can find nothing wrong.
I just tried a file with the contents
416 5 conspiracy theories/69 Eyes/Sweet Nothing Play Hard
America/Mellow Trax/View From The Ground
Baggi Begovic/Baggi Begovic & Funkerman/Good God
Baggi Begovic/Baggi Begovic; Soul Conspiracy ft. Caprice/So Into U Vinyl
and the format string
%artist%/%Composer%/%Album%
and the preview shows:
"E:\69 Eyes\2004 - Sweet Nothing Play Hard\Sweet Nothing Play Hard \_ 001 \_ 416 5 Conspiracy Theories \_ Lost Boys.mp3" -\>
artist: 416 5 conspiracy theories
Composer: 69 Eyes
Album: Sweet Nothing Play Hard
"E:\America\1982 - View From The Ground\America \_ View From The Ground \_ 000 \_ Out the Blue [Xilent Remix].mp3" -\>
artist: America
Composer: Mellow Trax
Album: View From The Ground
"E:\Baggi Begovic\2008 - Good God\Baggi Begovic \_ Good God \_ 003 \_ Good God [Baggi Begovic & Soul Conspiracy Remix].mp3" -\>
artist: Baggi Begovic
Composer: Baggi Begovic & Funkerman
Album: Good God
"E:\Baggi Begovic\2008 - Good God\CD 1\2008 - So Into U Vinyl\Baggi Begovic \_ So Into U Vinyl \_ 002 \_ So Into U [Peter Gelderblom Remix].mp3" -\>
artist: Baggi Begovic
Composer: Baggi Begovic; Soul Conspiracy ft. Caprice
Album: So Into U Vinyl
Which is just what I expected.
So what was it that did not work?
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### Author:  [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2015, 5:52am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-text-file-to-tag-doesnt-work/15178/7 "2015-06-17T05:52:11Z")
> [@wisconsinray](#):
>
> ... I have been trying to use “Text file – Tag” unsuccessfully for several days, unable to see what I was doing wrong. ...
> Line in file: Artist / Title / Album / Year
> Format string: %artist% / %title% / %album% / %year%
> But that doesn’t work, I also tried this.
> Line in file: Artist/Title/Album/Year
> Format string: %artist%/%title%/%album%/%year%
> But that doesn’t work either. ...
Following from your examples 1 and 2, it could be that one or more slash character did not fit.
Maybe you have confused characters ...
"Solidus / U+002F" or "Fraction slash / U+2044" or "Division slash / U+2215".
See also ...
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slash\_(punctuation)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slash_(punctuation))
[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%A4gst...omputersystemen](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%A4gstrich#Darstellung_in_Computersystemen)
DD.20150617.0952.CEST
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2018, 2:33pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-text-file-to-tag-doesnt-work/15178/8 "2018-12-28T14:33:47Z")
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