# Multiple albums - Tag sources
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/multiple-albums-tag-sources/50213
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [September 17, 2020, 9:06pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/multiple-albums-tag-sources/50213 "2020-09-17T21:06:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@Spider099](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Spider099)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2020, 9:06pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/multiple-albums-tag-sources/50213/1 "2020-09-17T21:06:50Z")
Is it possible to pass multiple albums through the Musicbrainz Tag Sources option
if you have multiple albums selected it appears to only see the first album
am i missing some setting option?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2020, 4:25am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/multiple-albums-tag-sources/50213/2 "2020-09-18T04:25:50Z")
see here:
> [@i need to update my tags automatically](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/i-need-to-update-my-tags-automatically/6141):
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> firstly i wanna congragulate the author of this software its amazing..and..i have a question..i have mp3 files without "year, genre,album" tags in my archive..i have tagged their artist,title tags' correctly i mean like this FILENAME: 4 Strings - Into The Night 2006 (Paul Morrell Mix).mp3 ARTIST: 4 Strings TITLE: Into The Night 2006 (Paul Morrell Mix) FILENAME: Armin Van Buuren Feat. Racoon - Love You More (Vocal Mix).mp3 ARTIST: Armin Van Buuren Feat. Racoon TITLE: Love You More (Vocal Mi…
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### Author:  [@Spider099](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Spider099)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2020, 6:25am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/multiple-albums-tag-sources/50213/3 "2020-09-18T06:25:05Z")
So - files or Albums can only be done one at a time
Thats a very old thread i would have thought this sort of thing would be available by now
Picard can open numerous albums and update the tags etc in one go
Doing it ona at a time in Mp3Tag is not a viable solution would take a long time etc
Thanks for the quick answer
Back to Picard
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2020, 6:36am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/multiple-albums-tag-sources/50213/4 "2020-09-18T06:36:00Z")
> [@Spider099](#):
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> Thats a very old thread
If you are not satisfied with the age of the thread you could have searched for yourself and you might have found this one:
> [@Running a Web Script over multiple files](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/running-a-web-script-over-multiple-files/47732):
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> Hi there, I've never 'needed' to do this before, but now that I do, I can't find a way to do it... And searches didn't surface anything. I'd like to run a web script (which may prompt for selection of proper match) across multiple files. Each file is different, so the script should be called separately to pull web data for each file selected. It seems that multi-selecting in mp3tag today causes the web script to be called once (for the first item), and the results applied to all files, which…
Another source of information would be the change log:
[https://www.mp3tag.de/changelog.html](https://www.mp3tag.de/changelog.html)
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### Author:  [@Spider099](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Spider099)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2020, 6:40am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/multiple-albums-tag-sources/50213/5 "2020-09-18T06:40:56Z")
a simple not possible and not going to happen anytime soon would have have been enough
did not see that one with a quick search - and neither did you for you first post
Time to move on 🙂
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2020, 7:30am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/multiple-albums-tag-sources/50213/6 "2020-09-18T07:30:08Z")
> [@Spider099](#):
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> Picard can open numerous albums and update the tags etc in one go
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> Doing it ona at a time in Mp3Tag is not a viable solution would take a long time etc
For those finding this thanks to Google:
Yes, Picard can open multiple albums, like Mp3tag can open multiple albums.
The significant difference is the possibility from Picard, to loop over multiple opened Albums in one run and search for metadata.
This CAN be a time saver, BUT: If you want to be sure to get the best matching result (release year, number of tracks, Vinyl or CD, release country...), you have to control the data album by album anyway. Exact the same way you do it in Mp3tag.
I don't see a huge time benefit to search metadata for 10 albums at once or search metadata album by album.
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### Author:  [@Spider099](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Spider099)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2020, 8:33pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/multiple-albums-tag-sources/50213/7 "2020-09-19T20:33:03Z")
if you want to refresh the metadata on 350 albums doing them one by one is not even close to being an option
In my recent situation i needed to do this with albums that had been through picard once before but a long time ago and wanted to refresh them - not from first getting them when a more careful approach is advisable
Not having a simple "Make it so" option in MP3Tag is an unnecessary limitation
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2020, 8:44pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/multiple-albums-tag-sources/50213/8 "2020-09-19T20:44:39Z")
> [@Spider099](#):
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> In my recent situation i needed to do this with albums that had been through picard once before but a long time ago and wanted to refresh them
In this case you don't need Mp3tag at all. Load them into Picard (again!) and refresh all the tag fields you want to update. If you already have all the MBID's I don't see any reason to use Mp3tag and any web source as you asked in your initial post.
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### Author:  [@Spider099](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Spider099)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2020, 3:03pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/multiple-albums-tag-sources/50213/9 "2020-09-20T15:03:37Z")
i wanted to try out Mp3Tag and see how it performed using the web sources - but as i have found this is not possible for more than one album at a time.
Having an option to do the same as picard would make mp3tag more useful - but as you cant see its a missing feature then no point debating what should or should not apply to mp3tag.
having a mbz id or not is nothing to do with which app to use or how it could be used thats a users choice - if it was avaiable then i would use it and not use picard at all.
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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/multiple-albums-tag-sources/50213/10 "2026-02-09T12:28:49Z")