# Copying Tags from One File to Another
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copying-tags-from-one-file-to-another/6376
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 4, 2008, 3:19am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copying-tags-from-one-file-to-another/6376 "2008-03-04T03:19:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@JFord](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/JFord)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2008, 3:19am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copying-tags-from-one-file-to-another/6376/1 "2008-03-04T03:19:29Z")
Everytime I think I have found a limit to what Mp3Tag can do, I find that I am wrong. Let's see if that happens again...
I am attempting to copy comment tags from one file to another. This would be easy for a few files, but I need to do it to over 400 different file pairs. Locating the source and target files in each pair required quite a bit of coding, but that part is complete. At this point I could easily build a list of source files and target files -- or if it's easier -- a list of target files and the comments to be written to each, but I am not sure how to perform the updates.
I guess that I could write a playlist of the target files and a text file of the comments and then use the "Text File - Tag" function, but I am uncomfortable that everything would stay in common order and therefore sync correctly. Is there another method that might work?
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2008, 6:49pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copying-tags-from-one-file-to-another/6376/2 "2008-03-04T18:49:09Z")
I'd also use Text File - Tag and make sure that the files are displayed in the correct order so that each comment is saved to the correct file.
Kind regards,
Florian
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### Author:  [@JFord](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/JFord)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2008, 8:13pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copying-tags-from-one-file-to-another/6376/3 "2008-03-04T20:13:40Z")
Thanks, I figured that was the case.
This leads me to a related question. Mp3Tag is awesome, but as a utility there are always going to be limits on what it can do. For heavy lifting (such as duplicate idenitifcation) I export my library (45K+ tunes) into MS Access and then run queries or scripts against the data. There are times when I really wish I could just go ahead and update the ID3v2 tags from Access (through ActiveX) or through other methods (command line would be fine too). I am not competent to write a C++ program to handle this and it appears the ID3Lib cannot be accessed through ActiveX (but I could be wrong about that). I looked at some ActiveX wrappers (ID3Edit in particular, which did not work -- told me that there was no ID3v2 present), but wanted some advice from anyone in this community about any successful experience they had writing one-off utilities to write ID3v2 tags. I will spend the change to purchase a wrapper or library if I can make it work.
Can anyone help me?
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copying-tags-from-one-file-to-another/6376/4 "2026-02-09T12:20:49Z")