# Specify MusicBrainz ID right away to spare matching effort?

**URL:** <https://discourse.beets.io/t/specify-musicbrainz-id-right-away-to-spare-matching-effort/884>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [August 19, 2019, 8:14pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/specify-musicbrainz-id-right-away-to-spare-matching-effort/884 "2019-08-19T20:14:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![dorade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b3f665/32.png) [@dorade](https://discourse.beets.io/u/dorade)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2019, 8:14pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/specify-musicbrainz-id-right-away-to-spare-matching-effort/884/1 "2019-08-19T20:14:26Z")

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Adrian, is it possible to specify a MusicBrainz ID together with the `import` command so that the Auto-Tagger doesn’t waste time matching? Couldn’t find anything in the documentation.

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**Author:** ![adrian](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.beets.io/adrian/32/4_2.png) [@adrian](https://discourse.beets.io/u/adrian)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2019, 9:27pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/specify-musicbrainz-id-right-away-to-spare-matching-effort/884/2 "2019-08-19T21:27:10Z")

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Yep, see the `--search-id` flag.