# Directories + filenames
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/directories-filenames/426
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 21, 2003, 7:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/directories-filenames/426 "2003-08-21T19:19:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@markegge](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/markegge)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2003, 7:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/directories-filenames/426/1 "2003-08-21T19:19:45Z")
I want to use the rename feature to convert 1000 or so mp3s from the Artisttrackname.mp3 format that they are in, where Artist is a directory, however i havn't been able to figure out how to tell mp3tag to read the directory for the artist name or %1 parameter.
The other question i have is: is there english support/help available for download? There isn't an option to select your language w/ the 2.13 install. Thanks,
-Mark
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2003, 8:42am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/directories-filenames/426/2 "2003-08-22T08:42:04Z")
Hi Mark,
for extracting the artist name from a directory and save this artist in the ID3-tag you can use the converter _filename - tag_ with a formatstring like **%i%t**.
There is no english help-file available at the moment, because it's a very time consuming task to translate the german help-file to english. But if you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask!
With best regards,
~ Florian
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/directories-filenames/426/3 "2026-02-09T12:19:09Z")