# Compress exported list?
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/compress-exported-list/9185
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [October 22, 2009, 6:30pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/compress-exported-list/9185 "2009-10-22T18:30:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@netphreak](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/netphreak)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2009, 6:30pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/compress-exported-list/9185/1 "2009-10-22T18:30:05Z")
Hello!
My first post here - so the obvious - WOW what a great tool Mp3Tag is 🙂
Alright, I have a question - is it possible, by scripting/using a 3. party tool to automatically compress an exported list? Would love to create a \*.tar.gz, or other linux friendly format...
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2009, 5:15pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/compress-exported-list/9185/2 "2009-10-23T17:15:33Z")
Thanks 🙂
Maybe you can define a user-defined tool at Options \> Tools that compresses the exported file by calling, e.g., a batch file.
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### Author:  [@netphreak](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/netphreak)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2009, 5:31pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/compress-exported-list/9185/3 "2009-10-23T17:31:26Z")
Yeah, but how to call that tool when clicking "export"? Maybe there's something I just didn't understand?
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2009, 5:34pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/compress-exported-list/9185/4 "2009-10-23T17:34:09Z")
This is unfortunately not an automated process. You have to trigger the tool manually (but there are keyboard shortcuts [Ctrl+1] to [Ctrl+0] for the user-defined tools).
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### Author:  [@netphreak](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/netphreak)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2009, 6:03pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/compress-exported-list/9185/5 "2009-10-23T18:03:04Z")
I see. But if one could call an "action" by executing a "tool", it would be all set. Maybe a wish for a future version? Although I'm sure there's loads of things on such a wish list 🙂
Thanks for your reply!