# passing multiple selected items to external tool

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/passing-multiple-selected-items-to-external-tool/16451
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [December 29, 2014, 2:14am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/passing-multiple-selected-items-to-external-tool/16451 "2014-12-29T02:14:32Z")
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### Author: ![tezza](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/e0b2c6/32.png) [@tezza](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/tezza)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2014, 11:50pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/passing-multiple-selected-items-to-external-tool/16451/3 "2014-12-29T23:50:58Z")

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Hi JJ,

I did try that, and all it does is launch an extra instance of the application (xrecode) for each file that is selected.

It does not pass a space separated list of each object.

Unless I am missing something, and there is another way to do it, there needs to be a function such as $list([item],[deliminator]) which does the job.

list("""+%\_path%+"""," ")

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