# Save metadata of a number of songs and reapply after editing
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/save-metadata-of-a-number-of-songs-and-reapply-after-editing/70599
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [January 27, 2026, 6:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/save-metadata-of-a-number-of-songs-and-reapply-after-editing/70599 "2026-01-27T18:23:59Z")
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### Author:  [@POl](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/POl)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2026, 9:06pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/save-metadata-of-a-number-of-songs-and-reapply-after-editing/70599/21 "2026-01-29T21:06:44Z")
I don’t know if there is any missing function , but I can’t copy and paste the metadata. I need to export data and reapply because when I bulk edit songs in Audacity it applies the author name and album photo of the first to the other songs.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2026, 9:14pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/save-metadata-of-a-number-of-songs-and-reapply-after-editing/70599/22 "2026-01-29T21:14:02Z")
> [@POl](#):
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> of the first to the other songs
You can to this in MP3tag like this:
- Select the picture and copy it to clipboard.
- Select all the files that should get the same data
- Enter the "author name" in the tag panel and press Ctrl-S
- Paste the picture from the clipboard into the picture area of the tag panel and press Ctrl-S to save the modification.
As soon as you feel confident enough, you can save all modifications in 1 go and press Ctrl-S after you have set and/or modified all the information. It is not necessary to save every modification individually.
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### Author:  [@POl](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/POl)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2026, 10:30pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/save-metadata-of-a-number-of-songs-and-reapply-after-editing/70599/23 "2026-01-29T22:30:01Z")
No man. The problem is with audacity that applies the artist name and album picture of the first song to every other song if I edit them in bulk/group and not individually , whereas I want to retain the metadata of each individual file .
What MP3tag could do is to copy and paste the metadata of each file regardless whether it has missing or inconsistent data like year, album, ect.
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### Author:  [@poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/poster)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2026, 6:43am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/save-metadata-of-a-number-of-songs-and-reapply-after-editing/70599/24 "2026-01-30T06:43:48Z")
What kind of work do you want to do in Audacity? Do you want wo work on the audio-part?
Mp3tag can copy & paste metadata from 1 or a group of files to the other in one go.
So if you make a backup of your files and work with the files of this backup in Audacity, you can later load both - the originals and the backup files - and arrange them in the same order. Then you mark the oroginals and press CTRL-C to copy the tags to the clipboard, mark the backup files and press CTRL-V, to paste the tags from the clipboard.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2026, 6:44am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/save-metadata-of-a-number-of-songs-and-reapply-after-editing/70599/25 "2026-02-27T06:44:28Z")
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