# Workflow using MP3Tag & DropBox
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/workflow-using-mp3tag-dropbox/12490
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [September 7, 2011, 10:57am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/workflow-using-mp3tag-dropbox/12490 "2011-09-07T10:57:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@Fact](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Fact)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2011, 10:57am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/workflow-using-mp3tag-dropbox/12490/1 "2011-09-07T10:57:33Z")
Hi there,
First of all: thanks for this great tool that is MP3Tag!
I use it for quite some time now, but in a very basic way so far.
I've decided to go further, and I would need some advice/support in order to do so: The idea is to build a full workflow, using MP3Tag & DropBox, in order to get all my freshly downloaded tracks (on PC) organised and imported on my MacBook Pro to be used in Traktor Pro.
**1 - Tagging**
Once a track is downloaded (most of the time on my external HDD) I use the built-in "Tools" feature of MP3tag to launch discogs & beatport on FireFox5 and get manually the desired tags/cover art (I don't really mind doing it manually as it allows me to better know the track):
> **Tool 1** : "Search Discogs based on Artist + Title"
>
> D:\Utils\FireFox\_5\firefox.exe
> [http://www.discogs.com/advanced\_search?art...eplace(%artist%](http://www.discogs.com/advanced_search?artist="$replace(%artist%), ,+,&,+)"&track="$replace(%title%, ,+,&,+,-,)"&btn=Search+Releases
>
> **Tool 2** : "Search Beatport based on Artist + Title"
>
> D:\Utils\FireFox\_5\firefox.exe
> [http://www.beatport.com/search?query="...eplace(%artist%](http://www.beatport.com/search?query="$replace(%artist%), ,+,&,+)+"$replace(%title%, ,+,&,+,-,+)"
**2 - Renaming the file based on tag**
Here the goal is to:
> - Rename the file following this template: artist - title.mp3. I need to dig into this one on the forum, but I think I can handle that part from what I've briefly seen about the "Actions" feature (with something like "\_FILENAME": %artist% - %title%).
> - During that process, I need to remove the " - Original Mix" well known from Beatport customers 🙂
>
> - also when multiple artists are involved (I used the follwing classification in "Artist" feild : artist 1, artist 2, artist 3, etc... so that Traktor find through a search artists names in feilds %artist% and %TRAKTORREMIXER") I need to get rid of the ", " on the file name and replace it by " & "
**3 - Adding it to an existing playlist based on %Genre% and located on DropBox**
This is a tricky part for me. So far I did not really find a way to add (increment) the selected tracks to an existing playlist located on my Dropbox folders, based on %genre% tag.
**4 - copying the file to a specific folder (in that case that would be a folder on Dropbox)**
Also on that part I don't really know how to copy the file in a specific folder, based on %genre% tag. That folder would be located in a sub-folder on Dropbox
_I believe **phases 2, 3 & 4** might be handeled in 1 click through a scrpit or an action?_
**5 - The last step is pretty straight forward and is already ok**
When I turn on my MacBookPro, Dropbox is active and will download all the newly added tracks and playlists locally. When I start Traktor, I configured it so that it adds automatically all the new tracks, the updated playlsits and analyse them.
Thanks very much for reading, and maybe for kind help...
Have a good one!
Fact
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/workflow-using-mp3tag-dropbox/12490/2 "2026-02-09T12:23:20Z")