# Auto/recursing music folder
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/auto-recursing-music-folder/7557
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [December 2, 2008, 1:34pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/auto-recursing-music-folder/7557 "2008-12-02T13:34:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@jzucker](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/jzucker)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2008, 1:34pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/auto-recursing-music-folder/7557/1 "2008-12-02T13:34:52Z")
Can I point mp3tag at a folder of thousands of mp3s and have it auto-encode the id3 information?
I typically have my files in the following format.
artist/
```
album/
song{n}
```
What I'd like to do is auto-encode stuff that doesn't have id3 info but leave id3 info alone for stuff that already has it.
Is this possible?
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2008, 9:04pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/auto-recursing-music-folder/7557/2 "2008-12-02T21:04:54Z")
It's possible using the converter Filename - Tag but it won't detect files that already have that information included. You have to select them beforehand, maybe identifying them with the Filter [F3].