Put environment variable into tag field

I am sure ... one time there will be coming the moment, when you need the value of an environment variable to create a proper folder path for your music files or to fill a tag-field with some specific external data.

The current version of Mp3tag does not provide access to the system environment variables, so I have created a workaround to do so.

There are two command line utility scripts in the attached zip file:

  • GetEnv.AppData.cmd
  • GetEnv.Temp.cmd

Run these scripts from any folder.
Each script will create two files in the folder "%APPDATA%\Mp3tag\data\actions" with the names:

  • GetEnv.AppData.mta, GetEnv.AppData.txt
  • GetEnv.Temp.mta, GetEnv.Temp.txt

When running the "GetEnv.Temp.mta" action file from within Mp3tag against a selected music file, the action first reads the content of the data file "GetEnv.Temp.txt", then creates a new tag-field of name 'ENV_TEMP', which holds the folder path string to the current user's TEMP folder.

When running the "GetEnv.AppData.mta" action file from within Mp3tag against a selected music file, the action first reads the content of the data file "GetEnv.AppData.txt", then creates a new tag-field of name 'ENV_APPDATA', which holds the folder path string to the current user's APPDATA folder.

Hope it is useful, enjoy!

GetEnv.zip (1.47 KB)

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GetEnv.zip (1.47 KB)