# Remove song from list via Actions
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-song-from-list-via-actions/46622
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 2, 2019, 7:30pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-song-from-list-via-actions/46622 "2019-10-02T19:30:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Sven\_Golly](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Sven_Golly)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2019, 7:30pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-song-from-list-via-actions/46622/1 "2019-10-02T19:30:57Z")
I know this is an ancient request but perhaps it could be revisited. When I'm working on a LOT of songs, it would really help if, once I had applied an Action to a song, they'd disappear from the list (via some funciton or toggle that Action group).
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2019, 7:51pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-song-from-list-via-actions/46622/2 "2019-10-02T19:51:54Z")
In your action group you could add an action to fill a user-defined field which you use as a filter criterion to hide treated files when you refresh the filter.
Please note that a file that is not part of the selection will not be treated by an action. So if you hide a file from the file list, further actions in an action group could run into error conditions.
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### Author:  [@Sven\_Golly](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Sven_Golly)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2019, 8:07pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-song-from-list-via-actions/46622/3 "2019-10-02T20:07:27Z")
Yes, I've seen that solution elsewhere but if you are working on 1000s of files at once (as I do), the filter refresh takes hella longer than hitting the DEL key to remove it from the list. I'm suggesting that the Action group could contain (as it's last action) a command to Remove Selected from the working list. It sort of begs for a minimal macro language in MP3Tag. :\_)
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2019, 8:12pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-song-from-list-via-actions/46622/4 "2019-10-02T20:12:43Z")
OK, now you know a way to hide treated files.
Perhaps you use that until your suggestion has been implemented.
> [@Sven\_Golly](#):
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> the filter refresh takes hella longer than hitting the DEL key to remove it from the list
Pressing F3 twice does not really take longer than hitting the Del key at least not for just a thousand files.
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### Author:  [@Sven\_Golly](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Sven_Golly)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2025, 4:58am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-song-from-list-via-actions/46622/5 "2025-07-03T04:58:44Z")
Oh well there's the rub. I'm currently working on about 80K worth of files. It takes minutes to refresh all that.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2025, 6:36am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-song-from-list-via-actions/46622/6 "2025-07-03T06:36:16Z")
Although it is usually a bad idea to ask "do you really need it" when there is a suggestion for a new function - but this time I wonder how often it is necessary to update a list of files that just has been treated, so that you "know" which files are done and which are still waiting.
Anyway: there is still no way to remove files from the file list with an action, so you still have to think of other ways to reach your goal until eventually the function may be available.
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### Author:  [@MotleyG](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/MotleyG)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2025, 10:24am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-song-from-list-via-actions/46622/7 "2025-07-03T10:24:16Z")
> [@Sven\_Golly](#):
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> the filter refresh takes hella longer than hitting the DEL key to remove it from the list.
Using the Del key removes the highlighted files completely from the current mp3tag activity. If you plan to do anything else after the current Actions you will need to load up the directory again, which will take more time than simply turning the filter off then back on any time.
> [@Sven\_Golly](#):
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> I'm currently working on about 80K worth of files. It takes minutes to refresh all that.
Turning the filter off/on for a set of files already loaded into mp3tag should be very fast. Maybe a second or so maximum, certainly not measured in minutes.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2025, 8:41am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-song-from-list-via-actions/46622/8 "2025-11-23T08:41:56Z")
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