# Macro Express can't operate on Mp3Tag
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/macro-express-cant-operate-on-mp3tag/54599
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 1, 2021, 11:56pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/macro-express-cant-operate-on-mp3tag/54599 "2021-10-01T23:56:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Sebastian42](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Sebastian42)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2021, 11:32pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/macro-express-cant-operate-on-mp3tag/54599/21 "2021-10-03T23:32:49Z")
"have you succeeded to open a menu as part of a macro in any other program e.g. Editor?"
Macro Express automates features of about a dozen programs for me. Specifically, it will automate the backup of Chrome's bookmarks.
"I think the questions you have to ask the folks over there at the macro program: how do you send shortcut keys as part of a macro?"
I did not approach MP3Tag until I had exhausted the options at Insight Software. They admit that it looks like it does not work with MP3Tag.
"No such software is needed to automate most of the repetitive steps inside Mp3tag."
If MP3Tag has native automation of repetitive steps, I yet have to discover how/where and would appreciate help in that adventure. I will look at the options of Macro Recorder - I did work with recorders early on and abandoned them for lack of success.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2021, 4:53am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/macro-express-cant-operate-on-mp3tag/54599/22 "2021-10-04T04:53:06Z")
> [@Sebastian42](#):
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> Macro Express automates features of about a dozen programs for me
Sorry, I think that this does not answer the question whether really YOU succeeded to write a macro that opens a menu in a program apart from MP3tag.
To be honest: so far I always thought that MP3tag uses as many built-in windows functions as possible and esp. the menu management is genuine Windows.
So I have to assume that the probelms do not arise from the target but from the source. And if the folks that develop the macro program also think that all of this is ordinary stuff, it must be something in between.
I do not think that any further help from the distance is possible - at least not from me.
If you get new insights and report them this might be different.
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### Author:  [@Sebastian42](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Sebastian42)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2021, 5:22am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/macro-express-cant-operate-on-mp3tag/54599/23 "2021-10-04T05:22:05Z")
Without obliging YOU to continue on a topic you consider exhausted, I can answer your question that I did succeed in writing a dozen or so macros some of which open a menu in a program e.g. in Chrome.
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### Author:  [@Sebastian42](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Sebastian42)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2021, 7:50am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/macro-express-cant-operate-on-mp3tag/54599/24 "2021-10-04T07:50:04Z")
LyricsLover - to my amazement MacroRecorder achieved all the steps where Macro Express faltered - so thank you VERY MUCH for that clue !
Macro Express has the ability to END and remove all trace of the process - I have not found that in MacroRecorder. I have probably overlooked something. Can YOU point me to it ?
And if you can - I'd also like a code alternative to clicking on PLAY.
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### Author:  [@MotleyG](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/MotleyG)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2021, 2:04pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/macro-express-cant-operate-on-mp3tag/54599/25 "2021-10-04T14:04:19Z")
> [@Sebastian42](#):
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> If MP3Tag has native automation of repetitive steps, I yet have to discover how/where and would appreciate help in that adventure.
I’m still not quite understanding what is missing.
mp3tag handles automation by design, simplifying the function of correctly tagging media files and the associated fields. Whether updating one or many files, this is pretty straight forward. Plus the use of Filters and Actions can allow you to create ways to repeat your regular processes easily.
What you are asking is to have an external program automate what is already automated within mp3tag. Seems like an exercise in redundancy, and so far frustration, IMO.
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### Author:  [@Sebastian42](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Sebastian42)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2021, 11:04pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/macro-express-cant-operate-on-mp3tag/54599/26 "2021-10-04T23:04:19Z")
Although my specific problem has been solved, I would be interested in, but have NO clue how, to automate within MP3Tag. By automation, I mean a one click process.
I agree with you that redundancy is undesirable, but until I discover or can be shown how to achieve automation in MP3Tag, a 3rd party program is my only option.
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### Author:  [@Sebastian42](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Sebastian42)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2021, 6:09am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/macro-express-cant-operate-on-mp3tag/54599/27 "2021-10-09T06:09:03Z")
My problem was solved then - worked beautifully - but no longer does. I have no idea what has gone amiss. So I am back to square one. ONLY NOW have I seen that Mp3Tag has actions and
batch functions - so the penny has finally dropped. I think I did mention before that if automation was available I would happily use it, but needed guidance to find it. Anyway, not only have I discovered ACTIONS, but even the precise action needed as shown in the 'upload'. So a solution is tantalisingly close, but I still have no idea how to implement it.
It needs to be applied to
so that the end result looks like Filename, rather than Title. Could you help me with that ?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2021, 7:00am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/macro-express-cant-operate-on-mp3tag/54599/28 "2021-10-09T07:00:55Z")
see here:
> [@Removing leading numbers from TITLE field](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-leading-numbers-from-title-field/14786):
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> I've followed every example in the forum and support discussions. No matter what I do I can't get a regex to work on the TITLE field of an MP3 track. I'm running on 64 bit Win 7. There are TITLE names such as 01 A Day in The Life 02 Yellow Submarine All I'm trying to do is get this: A Day in The Life Yellow Submarine (Leading numbers and spaces removed) I've got an Action created that says this: Regular Express: "TITLE": "^\s\*\d+\s\*-\s\*" -\> "" When I run the Action (whether on 1 or …
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:29pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/macro-express-cant-operate-on-mp3tag/54599/29 "2026-02-09T12:29:27Z")
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