# REQUEST: Integrate Mp3tag into OS shell menu
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/request-integrate-mp3tag-into-os-shell-menu/41963
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [June 18, 2018, 7:33pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/request-integrate-mp3tag-into-os-shell-menu/41963 "2018-06-18T19:33:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zerow)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2018, 7:33pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/request-integrate-mp3tag-into-os-shell-menu/41963/1 "2018-06-18T19:33:45Z")
Not so long ago there was this request
> [@Hotkey for Custom Action](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/hotkey-for-custom-action/41629):
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> I have some actions which I need to repeat again and again while scrolling through the list of songs. Being able to assign hotkeys to actions would tremendously increase and optimize the work flow. Is that something that makes sense for others as well?
and this mine will be a bit of a science-fiction; but nevertheless here it goes
I would like to be able to place [export] actions in the right click menu of the OS. Or some of the functions, like the removal of tags. So that I would not have to load some files just to navigate to them in Mp3tag, which often I have to open first as it is not even running
I know: to make it user friendly / configurable it would be probably very hard and / or time consuming; as this old tampering of mine attests to that:
> [@How to move up Mp3tag in shell?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-move-up-mp3tag-in-shell/18029):
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> I would like to rearrange my shell. I have Mp3tag put in it, but it resides somewhere between things I rarely use [but still need them]; and as they are not even listed alphabetically, I have to spend a precious second or two to find it I use free software called Swith Sound File Converter. In it, in the File \> Options \> Right-Click I can choose to add new entries for the shell menu, that convert file to a format of my choosing. And those entries are added at the top of my right click menu. A…
But I am presenting this idea as a long shoot
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2018, 7:52pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/request-integrate-mp3tag-into-os-shell-menu/41963/2 "2018-06-18T19:52:00Z")
Just something to think about:
Using a command like e.g. an action requires to load the command interpreter.
For MP3tag actions and exports this would be MP3tag.
There is currently no way to use command line parameters to start MP3tag to execute actions or reports.
The idea to use command line parameters goes back to 2006:
> [@Why not command line option?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/why-not-command-line-option/4224):
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> Question stated. Command line parameters would be extremely helpful when the changes are order-sensitive (don't want to manually check the order of playlist) and when there are a lots of files (don't want the long loading time for GUI). I just wonder about why command line option is not planned... [newest foobar2000 does not support TXXX frames and delete all my TXXX frames when I change anything via command line! Other command line tools (hard to find in any rate) either does not support TXXX …
It might have been worthwhile to continue that discussion than to start a similar new topic.
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### Author:  [@Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zerow)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2018, 9:22pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/request-integrate-mp3tag-into-os-shell-menu/41963/3 "2018-06-18T21:22:09Z")
> [@ohrenkino](#):
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> [...]
> The idea to use command line parameters goes back to 2006:
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> It might have been worthwhile to continue that discussion than to start a similar new topic.
You may be right on that
But this wizard help tool of this new forum did not suggested to me that thread when posting. And when I was writing this post of mine I searched for old ones concerning shell menu, to which those evoked links attest
But also, as for the similarity between how a command line works and shell menu entries- I have very limited knowledge about that; and so I would not have made that connection on my own
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### Author:  [@Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zerow)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2018, 6:54pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/request-integrate-mp3tag-into-os-shell-menu/41963/4 "2018-10-10T18:54:36Z")
How about adding actions to right click menu within Mp3tag?
I would put there those few that I use constantly, thus saving time needed for navigating through my 150+ actions, most of them hidden within sub-menus
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2018, 7:09pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/request-integrate-mp3tag-into-os-shell-menu/41963/5 "2018-10-10T19:09:10Z")
This feature has also been discussed before:
> [@\[Feature Request\] Run single action on a directory from command line](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-run-single-action-on-a-directory-from-command-line/14364):
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> I have an extremely complicated chained "Action" that I would like to run on every file in a single directory, from the command line, and then have MP3Tag just quit. Basically, I'd like to run it from a Makefile wink Right now, I have to right click, chose "Convert-\>Actions" and then OK (thankfully it remembers that I had the one I wanted checked off). What say you?