# Suggestion - Option to create automated cronjob exports
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggestion-option-to-create-automated-cronjob-exports/52431
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [March 18, 2021, 8:32pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggestion-option-to-create-automated-cronjob-exports/52431 "2021-03-18T20:32:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@thesuperintendent](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/thesuperintendent)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2021, 8:32pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggestion-option-to-create-automated-cronjob-exports/52431/1 "2021-03-18T20:32:39Z")
I have a big archive with sorted music and I run an export more or less once a week.
It would be great to be able to create automatic (cronjob) exports. Maybe via the command line?
That way I always have the latest exports and don't have to do it manually. 🙂
For example:
mp3tag -export "\Volume1\Music" --id=4 (select which configuration) --append=on (add data on or off)
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2021, 7:19am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggestion-option-to-create-automated-cronjob-exports/52431/2 "2021-03-19T07:19:40Z")
I don't want to discourage you - but the idea of further command line parameters has been around for some time. And nothing like it has happened in that respect.
(this might be the underlying reason:
> [@Command-line parameters?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/command-line-parameters/2326/5):
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> Sorry, but Mp3tag is supposed to be an interactive program, not a command line utility. Best regards, ~ Florian
But perhaps you find a different way to achieve the same thing:
> [@MP3Tag with command line shell?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-with-command-line-shell/47081/):
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> Hello, Is it possible to use MP3Tag only on the command line with windows shell? for example to remove tags from an mp3 ? tk's for help RS
Even though the idea in that thread is to modify tags, the referenced tool might generate some kind of report/export.
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### Author:  [@thesuperintendent](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/thesuperintendent)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2021, 9:04am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggestion-option-to-create-automated-cronjob-exports/52431/3 "2021-03-19T09:04:29Z")
Thanks man, appreciate your comment!
I like the idea and I've also seen the comments about command line switches in the past. I'm just throwing it out there.
Maybe with enough use cases Florian will reconsider this or maybe find another way to implement it 🙂