# Is it possible to automatize a tagging sequence?

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/is-it-possible-to-automatize-a-tagging-sequence/47255>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [December 8, 2019, 6:12pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/is-it-possible-to-automatize-a-tagging-sequence/47255 "2019-12-08T18:12:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![MC23](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/a587f6/32.png) [@MC23](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/MC23)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2019, 6:12pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/is-it-possible-to-automatize-a-tagging-sequence/47255/1 "2019-12-08T18:12:45Z")

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I'll explain better with two examples:

1st

One thing that happens a lot is that my files are called 1 - Title, 2 - Title etc, so every time, for the first 9 tracks, I have to do:

1. Tag - Tag --\> FIELD: TRACK & FORMAT STRING: 0%track%
2. Tag - Filename --\> %track% - %title%

I'd like to know if it's possible to store this sequence of operations somewhere and then call it when I need it

2nd

I make a lot of playlists and for each of them the process is the same: I set the title equal to the filename, I then remove every tag and assign Artist, Album, Genre and Cover tag by hand. Since the chosen tags are the same every time, I was wondering if there was a way to automatically tag files based on a "pattern" that you save somewhere.

Hope the examples' explanation will make you understand what I want to do, thanks in advance!

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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:** [December 8, 2019, 7:30pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/is-it-possible-to-automatize-a-tagging-sequence/47255/2 "2019-12-08T19:30:59Z")

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You can put a vast number of actions into a single action group which then can be called with a single click.

> [@MC23](#):
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> Tag - Tag --\> FIELD: TRACK & FORMAT STRING: 0%track%

Action of the type "Format value" for field TRACK  
Format string: $num(%track%,2)

> [@MC23](#):
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> Tag - Filename --\> %track% - %title%

Action of the type "Format value" for \_FILENAME  
Format string: %track% - %title%

The 2nd task: to modify the a tag field with a fixed set of strings, use actions of the type "Format value" for that field.  
Mp3tag does not remember previous inputs for fields.  
You can import data from a text file but I think as you have to prepare the text file(s) with the data that you want to import, your can type it in straight away.

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**Author:** ![MC23](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/a587f6/32.png) [@MC23](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/MC23)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2019, 8:29am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/is-it-possible-to-automatize-a-tagging-sequence/47255/3 "2019-12-09T08:29:02Z")

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Thanks! Today I'll try it out 🙂

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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:** [April 1, 2020, 4:15am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/is-it-possible-to-automatize-a-tagging-sequence/47255/4 "2020-04-01T04:15:05Z")

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