# MP3Tag with command line shell?
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-with-command-line-shell/47081
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [November 17, 2019, 6:52pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-with-command-line-shell/47081 "2019-11-17T18:52:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@RS75](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/RS75)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2019, 6:52pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-with-command-line-shell/47081/1 "2019-11-17T18:52:20Z")
Hello,
Is it possible to use MP3Tag only on the command line with windows shell?
for example to remove tags from an mp3 ?
tk's for help
RS
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2019, 7:10pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-with-command-line-shell/47081/2 "2019-11-17T19:10:48Z")
The answer is still the same: No.
> [@command line with MP3Tag](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/command-line-with-mp3tag/15245):
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> Hello to everybody, is it possible to call MP3Tag for batch operations via command line? If yes, what would be the syntax to perform a tag \> filename conversion?
> [@Delete fields from command line](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/delete-fields-from-command-line/19694):
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> How can I delete this field in the command line? I use command line software to remove unnecessary tags, but I can't get this particular tag deleted, as I don't know precisely how to address it.
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### Author:  [@Crissov](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Crissov)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2019, 7:30pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-with-command-line-shell/47081/3 "2019-11-17T19:30:22Z")
Despite its misleading name, [EXIFtool](https://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/) might be what you are looking for. I believe FFmpeg can be used for some basic CLI tag editing as well.
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2019, 8:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-with-command-line-shell/47081/4 "2019-11-17T20:26:38Z")
@Crissov Are you sure that EXIFtool can WRITE ID3 tags? As far as I know, it can READ it, but not write it:
The developer Phil Harvey [wrote](http://u88.n24.queensu.ca/exiftool/forum/index.php/topic,5112.msg24651.html#msg24651) some years ago:
> I actually started writing an ID3 writer in 2006, but got discouraged because it turned out to be a more difficult task than I thought. A large part of the problem is that the ID3 specification is crap. So unfortunately adding ID3 write support isn't something that will happen in the foreseeable future.
I'm not sure, if this still is valid.
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### Author:  [@Crissov](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Crissov)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2019, 6:15am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-with-command-line-shell/47081/5 "2019-11-18T06:15:20Z")
You are right, I totally forgot about that.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-with-command-line-shell/47081/6 "2026-02-09T12:28:20Z")