# Feature Request: Add "external tool" support in Actions

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-add-external-tool-support-in-actions/7327
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [October 13, 2008, 11:08pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-add-external-tool-support-in-actions/7327 "2008-10-13T23:08:01Z")
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### Author: ![Moonbase](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/moonbase/32/207_2.png) [@Moonbase](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Moonbase)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2008, 11:08pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-add-external-tool-support-in-actions/7327/1 "2008-10-13T23:08:01Z")

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I’d wish for the possibility to have something like the "Tools" available for Action Groups.

This would help a lot in building _the_ universal Tagger – and leave all the options to the user.

I’d use it for ["standard cover images"](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/7328/1) for instance (which I now painfully do in Photoshop):

1. An album folder _can_ have a cover image called »%albumartistsort% - %album%.jpg«.
2. If there’s a cover image in a file, I use the »Extract« action to save this instead (same name).
3. _I run some [ImageMagick](http://www.imagemagick.org/) tools (convert/mogrify) on the cover to make it JPEG 160x160 px, 72 dpi._
4. I re-import the cover with the »Import« action.

Now step (3) would be nice to have … same scheme as »Tools«:  
Name, Path, Parameter, [x] for all selected files.

Or, even simpler, something like:  
**$exec('Title','path','parameter',showconsolewindow)**  
where

- _$exec_ = function name
- _Title_ = Title for the console window (if shown)
- _path_ = Path to executable, or batch file
- _parameter_ = any command line parameters passed to executable/batch file
- _showconsolewindow_ = Flag (bool) to indicate whether or not to show the console window

How do other MP3Tag users feel about this?

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