# anyway to retrieve info from a folder name and input it into tag field??

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/anyway-to-retrieve-info-from-a-folder-name-and-input-it-into-tag-field/12704
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [November 17, 2011, 12:30pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/anyway-to-retrieve-info-from-a-folder-name-and-input-it-into-tag-field/12704 "2011-11-17T12:30:00Z")
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### Author: ![SataS](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b5a626/32.png) [@SataS](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/SataS)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2011, 12:30pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/anyway-to-retrieve-info-from-a-folder-name-and-input-it-into-tag-field/12704/1 "2011-11-17T12:30:00Z")

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hey first off love the app! I'm always stumbling across new features that are extremely useful... its my first post sorry if it's in the wrong section I'm new to this stuff... ok my questions is... is there anyway I can take the "YEAR" of a album that is in the albums folder/directory name and automatically input it into the %year% id3 field using the actions?? I'm pretty uptight about my music collection so all my songs are organized like this... all my music is divided by genre then within each genre directory is folders for each artist/band then within each artist/band folder is the albums with the format " (year) album name " what I want to do is be able to make a action that takes the year from in-between the () brackets usings the %workingdir% option then input it into all the songs within that folders id3 YEAR field...? hope this makes sense if it's possible and im just missing it any support is appreciated!! if it's not possible then maybe an option in the future ,) thanks in advance

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