# How to automatically set the program to update tags for tracks?

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-automatically-set-the-program-to-update-tags-for-tracks/49851>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [August 8, 2020, 6:48am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-automatically-set-the-program-to-update-tags-for-tracks/49851 "2020-08-08T06:48:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![DJboutit](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/8e7dd6/32.png) [@DJboutit](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DJboutit)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2020, 6:48am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-automatically-set-the-program-to-update-tags-for-tracks/49851/1 "2020-08-08T06:48:52Z")

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How do you automatically set the program to update tags for all your tracks??

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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:** [August 8, 2020, 7:55am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-automatically-set-the-program-to-update-tags-for-tracks/49851/2 "2020-08-08T07:55:41Z")

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That depends on what you mean by

> [@DJboutit](#):
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> all your tracks

The biggest chunk that can be tagged in one go e.g. by web source scripts is an album.  
Or if you want to change the genre "Pop" to "Pop Music", then you can filter for all those files and treat them in one go.  
What Mp3tag will never do is "guess".

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**Author:** ![MP3Freak\_Peter](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@MP3Freak\_Peter](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/MP3Freak_Peter)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2020, 2:18pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-automatically-set-the-program-to-update-tags-for-tracks/49851/3 "2020-08-09T14:18:59Z")

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> [@DJboutit](#):
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> How do you automatically set the program to update tags for all your tracks??

there are several ways using web sources to complete tags like album and year, please use forum search.

You may have a look here:

> [@TagComplete - new tag auto completion service](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tagcomplete-new-tag-auto-completion-service/49750):
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> Hey@all, TagComplete is an software for the automatic completion of metadata against a database maintained by community. Community database rating system "learns" with every file scanned by you. Title recognition is based on "MAFP - Mediapurge acoustic fingerprint" technology. The software "listens" to your audiofiles and therefore can recognize untitled titles for tagging. The recognition of the titles is carried out locally Only acoustic fingerprints and metadata are exchanged with the…

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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, 12:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-automatically-set-the-program-to-update-tags-for-tracks/49851/4 "2026-02-09T12:28:45Z")

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