# Create extra shortcuts in folders/playlists

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/create-extra-shortcuts-in-folders-playlists/47575
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [January 20, 2020, 8:14pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/create-extra-shortcuts-in-folders-playlists/47575 "2020-01-20T20:14:32Z")
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### Author: ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2020, 5:44am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/create-extra-shortcuts-in-folders-playlists/47575/4 "2020-01-21T05:44:29Z")

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Playlists have nothing to do with tags. They are just plain text files with filename references. So if your player can cope with playlists, there you are.  
Otherwise, if the player is confined to file system limitations , you will probably have to live with duplicates.  
Or have a look at this thread, perhaps it helps:

> [@How to create a shortcut file to a physical file?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-create-a-shortcut-file-to-a-physical-file/10808):
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> There was a user request ... [Copying shortcuts to files](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/10802/1) ... for creating a shortcut file within a new folder, targetting a real file anywhere else on the disk. Such a feature would allow to create a "virtual catalog" or an user defined "view" to the existing file base. Yes, the effect is something like a m3u file could deliver too. Mp3tag has no built in feature to create link files from real files yet. But the idea sounds interesting, anyway, and I have tried something into this direction u…

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