Hello, I’m looking for some assistance for automating moving files to folders based on genre.

You can start reading here: [image] Create Folder Structures based on Tags - Rename Files – Mp3tag Documentation Renaming files, creating folders and complete directory structures from tags can be done by using Convert → Tag - Filename with a format string. The format string is used to …

Or check other threads in the forum, e.g. [image] How to move complete contents of a folder into separate genre folders Support I have a tremendous amount of folders (usually with just an album). I would like to just organize them in folders by genre without c…

To clarify what I’m talking about. My music library is already setup into Genre based folders. I’ve been building my library like this since 2002. When I process tracks I manually sort the list by genre and move blocks of files to their respective folder using the move function. This works and ha…

To clarify what @LyricsLover and I have suggested so far: The converters are suitable to move files around and actions are also. So which of the suggestions have you tried?

Besides using the genre for sorting your music into filders, are there any other tags you want to use for further subfolders or in the filename? You could use this as an example, which follows the documentation that has been suggested already. D:\WhateverMusicFolder\%genre%\%albumartist%\%album%\%d…

[image] MotleyG: You could use this as an example, which follows the documentation that has been suggested already. D:\WhateverMusicFolder\%genre%\%albumartist%\%album%\%discnumber%-%track% %title% Just a side note: The above example would mix the ABBA Waterloo POP Vinyl-Album from 1974 wit…

[image] LyricsLover: I would suggest adding the %year% after the \%album%\ and perhaps other existing tags to distinguish between different releases. Agreed. There are so many variable to consider. It is up to the individual as to how this can be done.

My needs are simple for most of my genre folders. I let Serato DJ smart crates take care of sorting by year, etc. This is just the folder structure I’m working with to speed things up.

Automating File Moving to Genre folder

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ohrenkino April 15, 2026, 6:29am 3

Or check other threads in the forum, e.g.