# Action to copy field between two files

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/action-to-copy-field-between-two-files/14805
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [June 12, 2013, 3:04pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/action-to-copy-field-between-two-files/14805 "2013-06-12T15:04:00Z")
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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: [June 12, 2013, 3:08pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/action-to-copy-field-between-two-files/14805/2 "2013-06-12T15:08:26Z")

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> [@Chris J](#):
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> ... Is it possible to write an action to copy certain fields from the existing WMA files to ther newly created Flac counterparts?...

You can do this with the export function (which is then more script based) to create a text file first that you then read in for the empty files.

Or, if this is only a a rare occasion, the special functions from the file-list-context-menu to copy tags and paste tags might work just as nice - provided you have the same sequence and number of files for the source and the target files.

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