# Update from Clipboard - Action
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/update-from-clipboard-action/67580
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [February 19, 2025, 3:06pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/update-from-clipboard-action/67580 "2025-02-19T15:06:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@cldcp00](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/cldcp00)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2025, 3:06pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/update-from-clipboard-action/67580/1 "2025-02-19T15:06:18Z")
I am trying to Create an action to read the artisan tag from the clipboard in the following format
Bob Marley - Forces
and update the tag
- Set the Field to: ARTIST
- Set the Format string to: $left(%clipboard%,$sub($strstr(%clipboard%,-),1))
And
- Set the Field to: TITLE
- Set the Format string to: $right(%clipboard%,$sub($len(%clipboard%),$add($strstr(%clipboard%,-),1)))
Result is both it overwrites existing values with Blanks and not the value in the clipboard which is
Bob Marley - Forces
Thanks in advance for any help
Des
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2025, 3:18pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/update-from-clipboard-action/67580/2 "2025-02-19T15:18:20Z")
I have never heard about `%clipboard%`.
Do you use Mp3tag for Mac?
Or do you fill the `CLIPBOARD` field first using a separate process with the content of your Windows Clipboard?
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### Author:  [@cldcp00](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/cldcp00)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2025, 3:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/update-from-clipboard-action/67580/3 "2025-02-19T15:23:35Z")
Thanks Lyricslover
No i am on Windows 11
I copy Bob Marley - Forces to the clipboard first then run the action
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2025, 3:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/update-from-clipboard-action/67580/4 "2025-02-19T15:27:04Z")
I just tried to copy everything from a previous manual Ctrl + C into a ARTIST field.
But Mp3tag does not accept `%clipboard%` as valid placeholder.
Where did you find this possibility? Any examples?
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### Author:  [@cldcp00](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/cldcp00)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2025, 3:40pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/update-from-clipboard-action/67580/5 "2025-02-19T15:40:58Z")
I got it from this tread and amended it.
> [@Copy Tag Items to Clipboard](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copy-tag-items-to-clipboard/14045/11):
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> Select files and export one or more tag-fields into a text file, using a report script, creating a CSV alike text format. Use Converter "Textfile -Tag" to import the CSV alike text data into selected files into tag-fields specified by format string. DD.20121112.2102.CET
But i must be wrong and `%clipboard%` as not valid placeholder
So what i am trying to do possible?
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2025, 3:44pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/update-from-clipboard-action/67580/6 "2025-02-19T15:44:50Z")
> [@cldcp00](#):
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> Bob Marley - Forces
> ...
> So what i am trying to do possible?
Where do you currently see (and manually copy) the above information "Bob Marley - Forces"?
As part of your filename?
If you show us a screenshot from a loaded track in Mp3tag, we can help you better to extract the parts for ARTIST and TITLE.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2025, 3:46pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/update-from-clipboard-action/67580/7 "2025-02-19T15:46:29Z")
As the clipboard can currently not be addressed, I would suggest the following:
- Copy the text to the clipboard
- Paste it to the field ARTIST
- Run an action of the type "Guess value"
Source Format: %artist%
Target pattern: %artist% - %title%
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### Author:  [@cldcp00](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/cldcp00)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2025, 5:02pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/update-from-clipboard-action/67580/8 "2025-02-19T17:02:33Z")
these are mp3 files that i have that do not have proper filenames or tags so i use a program called MRA which does what Shazzam does and tells you what the track is allows you to copy the information to the clipboard.
I was under the impression that there would be some mechanism to now take that information from the clipboard and paste it into the relevant fields
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2025, 5:06pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/update-from-clipboard-action/67580/9 "2025-02-19T17:06:20Z")
> [@cldcp00](#):
>
> I was under the impression that there would be some mechanism
Not that I know of, sorry.
If you have to do that manually, track by (recognized) track, I also think that @ohrenkino's steps are the best for you.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2025, 5:06pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/update-from-clipboard-action/67580/10 "2025-03-21T17:06:51Z")
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