# cleaning newly ripped folder with 300 albums
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cleaning-newly-ripped-folder-with-300-albums/13709
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 1, 2012, 4:54am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cleaning-newly-ripped-folder-with-300-albums/13709 "2012-08-01T04:54:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@mhuusko](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mhuusko)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2012, 4:54am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cleaning-newly-ripped-folder-with-300-albums/13709/1 "2012-08-01T04:54:13Z")
Hi,
Just finalized ripping 300 CD's and now would like to add tags, art and lyrics-
What workflow should I use?
rgds,
Markku
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2012, 4:58am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cleaning-newly-ripped-folder-with-300-albums/13709/2 "2012-08-01T04:58:47Z")
I hope that you have used a ripper that already inserts some of the tag fields. Or that it created some meaningful file names so that you can convert the filename to tags.
Because: If you do not know which album (from which artist) you try to tag then all half-automatic scripts will have no point to start with.
Have a look around the web sources (already delivered with the MP3tag installation and also in the forums section web sources) to find tools to extract information.
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### Author:  [@mhuusko](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mhuusko)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2012, 5:06am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cleaning-newly-ripped-folder-with-300-albums/13709/3 "2012-08-01T05:06:41Z")
I have the structure of Artist/Album/track-Title in the folders.
Is that a good starting point for automatically getting the rest?
rgds,
Markku
> [@ohrenkino](#):
>
> I hope that you have used a ripper that already inserts some of the tag fields. Or that it created some meaningful file names so that you can convert the filename to tags.
>
> Because: If you do not know which album (from which artist) you try to tag then all half-automatic scripts will have no point to start with.
> Have a look around the web sources (already delivered with the MP3tag installation and also in the forums section web sources) to find tools to extract information.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2012, 5:33am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cleaning-newly-ripped-folder-with-300-albums/13709/4 "2012-08-01T05:33:44Z")
> [@mhuusko](#):
>
> I have the structure of Artist/Album/track-Title in the folders.
>
> Is that a good starting point for automatically getting the rest?
>
> rgds,
> Markku
Depends. If you have really nothing in the tags then you can use the converter
Filename-Tag.
You have to enter a mask to tell MP3tag where to put which data. If your path description is correct, then a mask like this should work:
%artist%\%album%%track%-%title%
If you want to leave out certain data then replace the field variable with the variable %dummy%. E.g. if you have already filled TITLE then the mask could look like this:
%artist%\%album%%track%-%dummy%
The dialogue has a preview so that you can see which data will end up in which field. If you see garbage there, then have a look at the real sequence of data: every blank and hyphen counts.
Modify the mask until it is right.
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2012, 6:06am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cleaning-newly-ripped-folder-with-300-albums/13709/5 "2012-08-01T06:06:15Z")
> [@mhuusko](#):
>
> Just finalized ripping 300 CD's and now would like to add tags, art and lyrics-
For the tags and cover art I would suggest: Take a look at the MusicBrainz [Webscripts](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/3591/1). With the help of this scripts you can tag your tracks with a lot of informations. For the lyrics you could use this tool: [[WS] MusicBrainz XML Webservice](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/6921/1)
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cleaning-newly-ripped-folder-with-300-albums/13709/6 "2026-02-09T12:23:59Z")