Create folders from tags. Possible?

General Discussion
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I hope this is the right part of the forum to post this question.

Is it possible to create folders based on the ID3 tags from a batch of mp3s? and move the mp3s themselves into the designated folder?

Ideally Id like for the folders to be created with a structure of: Artist/Album

Thanks for any help.

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Creating folders and complete directory structures from tags can be done by using the :mt_ttf: Converter > Tag - Filename.

Besides using normal placeholders (such as %artist%, %title%, ...) and arbitrary text (e.g., Music) it also allows for separating folders with the backslash \ character.

When you're using a backslash in a format string, Mp3tag will create a directory from the part of the format string in front of a backslash.

Here is an example that creates new directories under C:\Music:

C:\Music\$left(%artist%,1)\\%artist%-%year%-%album%\$num(%track%,2). %title%

The same is also possible using relative path names (instead of an absolute path in the example above) which creates the new directory below the current working directory:

%artist%-%year%-%album%\$num(%track%,2). %title%

Please note that the whole range of Mp3tag's internal Scripting Functions can be used in the format string.

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Thanks a whole lot, youre a lifesaver. I would have never figured this out on my own. The "language" used to do certain things on Mp3Tag is not exactly easy for newbs like me, but I still love the program with a passion.

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what if just want it to rename the folder where the mp3 files are?
or alternatively, can it move files like .jpg and .cue to the new folder?