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: $r…

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?

Thanks Lyricslover No i am on Windows 11 I copy Bob Marley - Forces to the clipboard first then run the action

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?

I got it from this tread and amended it. [image] Copy Tag Items to Clipboard General Discussion 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 t…

[image] cldcp00: 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 t…

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%

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 in…

[image] 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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I got it from this tread and amended it.

But i must be wrong and %clipboard% as not valid placeholder
So what i am trying to do possible?