# Command Line Interface

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/command-line-interface/12881
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [December 30, 2011, 10:05am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/command-line-interface/12881 "2011-12-30T10:05:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![jezbo](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@jezbo](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/jezbo)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2011, 10:05am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/command-line-interface/12881/1 "2011-12-30T10:05:35Z")

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Is there a CLI (or API) to control mp3tag externally? I have a music database which holds all my edited attributes and I want to push these to the id3 tags for all the mp3, ape & flac files. If not can I generate a script to control mp3tag in some way?

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### Author: ![ryerman](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ryerman/32/5285_2.png) [@ryerman](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ryerman)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2011, 12:35pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/command-line-interface/12881/2 "2011-12-30T12:35:04Z")

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> [@jezbo](#):
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> ...Is there a CLI (or API) to control mp3tag externally?

[Apply Actions from Command Line](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/11928/3)

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### Author: ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/command-line-interface/12881/3 "2026-02-09T12:23:33Z")

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