# Change next folder button
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/change-next-folder-button/4790
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [April 29, 2007, 5:31am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/change-next-folder-button/4790 "2007-04-29T05:31:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@0perator](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/0perator)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2007, 5:31am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/change-next-folder-button/4790/1 "2007-04-29T05:31:25Z")
Hi,
While mp3tag has been already amazingly well designed, the opening next folder button might be a good idea.
That's when going through a longer folder with album folders, one has to use Change folder button and scroll down to the next folder one by one ...
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### Author:  [@zencd](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/zencd)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2007, 11:26am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/change-next-folder-button/4790/2 "2007-05-02T11:26:25Z")
+1
It would be probably the best improvement I can imagine. I very miss that button, or a shortcut sooner.
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### Author:  [@Harm10](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Harm10)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2025, 3:01pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/change-next-folder-button/4790/3 "2025-08-10T15:01:55Z")
This is already an old discussion I found while first checking whether my idea was already once suggested. And it was!
So what happened to it? I do not see any replies of the maker?
A next / previous folder would be very handy if you are tagging lots of folders in the same main folder.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2025, 3:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/change-next-folder-button/4790/4 "2025-08-10T15:23:48Z")
So far the idea is always: use Windows Explorer if you are missing any file handling functions in MP3tag.
So have a Windows Explorer window open in which you navigate to the desired location and then either drag&drop the files and/or folders or copy&paste the path from the Windows Explorer to the directory field in MP3tag.
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### Author:  [@Reason](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Reason)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2025, 3:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/change-next-folder-button/4790/5 "2025-08-10T15:26:49Z")
It's been requested previously and I believe it's not feasible.
> [@Create a "Next Album" (or next folder) button](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/create-a-next-album-or-next-folder-button/58926):
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> A "Next Album" or "Next Folder" button would be nice to auto select the next album's or folder's set of songs. Perhaps wrap to the top when at bottom album.
I use xyplorer and that allows me to create a button that opens the selected folder(s) in mp3tag. Works well.
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### Author:  [@Harm10](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Harm10)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2025, 3:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/change-next-folder-button/4790/6 "2025-08-10T15:27:02Z")
I also can find my way to the desired folder but I still think it would be a good addition to have these options. I have no idea how hard it is to add it?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2025, 3:37pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/change-next-folder-button/4790/7 "2025-08-10T15:37:57Z")
Please see the linked thread plus the threads that are linked from there.
They might give you an idea what to do in the meantime until the feature is implemented and how many alternative workflows may be used that may be even more powerful than just a look at single folders.
A footnote: the also discussed feature to select all files when MP3tag starts has been implemented in the meantime.
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### Author:  [@Doug\_Mackie](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Doug_Mackie)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2025, 2:55am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/change-next-folder-button/4790/8 "2025-08-11T02:55:15Z")
> [@Harm10](#):
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> … I still think it would be a good addition to have these options.
I disagree. There is a quick and easy solution available right now. In Windows Explorer right click on the desired folder and choose Mp3tag from the context menu. Not only will that load that folder but _it will automatically replace the current contents_ in Mp3tag. Done!
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### Author:  [@Harm10](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Harm10)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2025, 7:15am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/change-next-folder-button/4790/9 "2025-08-11T07:15:49Z")
That works indeed! Mp3tag is only not direct visible in the context menu (Win11), I need to select More choices to see the additional ones including mp3tag. But this is far better than copy/paste.
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2025, 9:36am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/change-next-folder-button/4790/10 "2025-08-11T09:36:47Z")
> [@Harm10](#):
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> I need to select More choices
Or you can press SHIFT + Right Mouseclick on Windows 11 to directly get the "expanded contextmenu" (the same as manually pressing on "Show more options"/"Weitere Optionen anzeigen"), including Mp3tag.
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### Author:  [@Reason](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Reason)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2025, 3:50pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/change-next-folder-button/4790/11 "2025-08-11T15:50:56Z")
There's a third party software called Windhawk that allows users to modularly modify many aspects of Windows 11. One of the mods is to “always show more options.” I find it useful.
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### Author:  [@Harm10](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Harm10)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2025, 8:44pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/change-next-folder-button/4790/12 "2025-08-11T20:44:25Z")
I did not know this option (shift - right mouse)! Never to old to learn!