# Action: export tag field as text on MacOS

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/action-export-tag-field-as-text-on-macos/63215
**Category:** Mac
**Created:** [December 27, 2023, 12:38am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/action-export-tag-field-as-text-on-macos/63215 "2023-12-27T00:38:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![Quildar](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Quildar](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Quildar)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2023, 12:38am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/action-export-tag-field-as-text-on-macos/63215/1 "2023-12-27T00:38:44Z")

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On Windows, I can create as part of an action to have a tag field exported into a txt file via the "Export" action type. On MacOS, this option is unavailable, or at least I can't seem to find it. Is there something I'm missing or another way I might possibly be able to do this as part of an action?

Any suggestions or workarounds would be greatly appreciated!

Action types on Windows  
 ![image](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/3/355e0e387b49a31d3f89a1b13fb549d311b89b68.png)

Action types on Mac  
 ![image](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/0/0cf93a35b18549aff66e89e6062695cbadec55e2.png)

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### Author: ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2023, 7:15am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/action-export-tag-field-as-text-on-macos/63215/2 "2023-12-27T07:15:52Z")

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> [@Quildar](#):
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> Any suggestions or workarounds would be greatly appreciated!

Perhaps this thread gives an idea for an alternative approach:

> [@Request: Export Tags to Text Window](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/request-export-tags-to-text-window/58438):
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> Export Tags to Text Files Exporting tags to text files can be done by using Convert → Tag - Text File. But we need the tags in a text window, right inside mp3tag. Similar to Convert → Text File - Tag Text Window option. It should have first setup to select fields and format that. Next button must produce the text on the screen. This will help copy the tags easily from songs to another application. Exporting tags to csv and opening in a text editor can be cumbersome for small number of songs…

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### Author: ![Quildar](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Quildar](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Quildar)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2023, 8:53pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/action-export-tag-field-as-text-on-macos/63215/3 "2023-12-28T20:53:03Z")

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Thanks for the suggestion. I did give that post a look beforehand, and it's not what I'm looking for. On Windows, I can have Mp3tag read a tag field and output that tag field into a text file. I do this as part of my audiobook library to have book descriptions in the m4b files placed alongside in a txt file. On mac that option doesn't seem to be available.

I'll keep looking for now

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### Author: ![gomi](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/47e85d/32.png) [@gomi](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/gomi)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2025, 9:05am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/action-export-tag-field-as-text-on-macos/63215/4 "2025-01-15T09:05:31Z")

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@Florian any chance of implementing this?