# Automating Move Tasks by Genre
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/automating-move-tasks-by-genre/67648
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [February 25, 2025, 7:47am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/automating-move-tasks-by-genre/67648 "2025-02-25T07:47:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@djquartz](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/djquartz)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2025, 7:47am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/automating-move-tasks-by-genre/67648/1 "2025-02-25T07:47:32Z")
I've been pondering about this for awhile, I've been manually moving my tracks after processing to their respective genre folders.
I would like to start building an automated move function so I can just select all the tracks in the list and move them to their respective folders by genre definitions in the function.
Is this possible?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2025, 7:59am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/automating-move-tasks-by-genre/67648/2 "2025-02-25T07:59:40Z")
See e.g. here:
> [@Create action to move files based off genre](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/create-action-to-move-files-based-off-genre/67469/4):
>
> Try as Format string: %genre%\%\_filename%
BUT: wouldn't the display by genre be a task for the player?
PS: Is this a problem on a Mac?
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2025, 8:03am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/automating-move-tasks-by-genre/67648/3 "2025-02-25T08:03:38Z")
> [@djquartz](#):
>
> move them to their respective folders by genre definitions
Do you assume that all tracks from a specific album belong to the same GENRE?
Otherwise you would split an Album with this example songs:
01 - Pop Song.mp3
02 - Country Song.mp3
03 - Rock Song.mp3
in 3 different GENRE subfolders:
```auto
\Pop
\Country
\Rock
```
Do you really want that for your collection?
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### Author:  [@djquartz](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/djquartz)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2025, 3:35pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/automating-move-tasks-by-genre/67648/4 "2025-02-25T15:35:32Z")
My library is setup this way already. That's why I'm asking. I have genre specific folders for a few different genres.
The tracks are genre tagged from the pool now. I do this manually with the move function right now but I'm looking to have one move function to automate moving the bulk of the genres to speed up the process.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2025, 3:39pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/automating-move-tasks-by-genre/67648/5 "2025-02-25T15:39:52Z")
Yes, we know that you want to move files.
But there is already a suggestion with a link to a similar problem.
And also there is the question if this something to be performed on a Mac.
Some feedback on that would be great.
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### Author:  [@djquartz](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/djquartz)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2025, 3:47pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/automating-move-tasks-by-genre/67648/6 "2025-02-25T15:47:34Z")
I do all my processing on a Windows machine. It has network access to the Mac.
I do this daily manually in mp3tag. There is full access to the drive over the network.
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### Author:  [@djquartz](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/djquartz)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2025, 3:51pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/automating-move-tasks-by-genre/67648/7 "2025-02-25T15:51:13Z")
To add context to this. Most of my genre crates do not have sub-folders for sub-genres.
Serato DJ has a smart crate feature that can create crate automatically based of filters setup by the user.
I use this to get specific with genres.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2025, 3:57pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/automating-move-tasks-by-genre/67648/8 "2025-02-25T15:57:31Z")
So, following the idea in the linked thread - how far have you got?
Some more information can be found in the documentation:
> **[Rename Files – Mp3tag Documentation](https://docs.mp3tag.de/converters/rename-files/#create-folder-structures-based-on-tags)**
>
> Documentation on Tag to Filename, a converter to rename files based on tags. Mp3tag is the universal Tag Editor.
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### Author:  [@djquartz](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/djquartz)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2025, 5:18pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/automating-move-tasks-by-genre/67648/9 "2025-02-25T17:18:24Z")
I'm going to be processing music in a bit. I will give it a try.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2025, 6:25am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/automating-move-tasks-by-genre/67648/10 "2025-04-20T06:25:06Z")
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