# Feature Request: Rename Directory
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-rename-directory/6126
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [January 25, 2008, 1:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-rename-directory/6126 "2008-01-25T13:21:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@wvd\_vegt](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/wvd_vegt)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2008, 1:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-rename-directory/6126/1 "2008-01-25T13:21:14Z")
Hi,
Since i use mp3tag i'm quit ehappy but miss one feature present in a tool i wrote before using mp3tag. My private tool had the ability to change the directory name too in a format %artist% - %album% like pattern.
Is it possible to add this feature to the already feature packed mp3tag?
Wim van der Vegt
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2008, 2:40pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-rename-directory/6126/2 "2008-01-25T14:40:42Z")
It's already possible:
_Action type:_ **Format value**
_Field:_ **\_DIRECTORY**
_Formatstring:_ **%artist% - %album%**
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### Author:  [@wvd\_vegt](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/wvd_vegt)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2008, 10:59am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-rename-directory/6126/3 "2008-01-26T10:59:34Z")
Hi,
> [@dano](#):
>
> It's already possible:
>
> _Action type:_ **Format value**
> _Field:_ **\_DIRECTORY**
> _Formatstring:_ **%artist% - %album%**
Thanks, just what i needed.
One drawback with the actions is that you there is no easy way to select a single user-defined actions (I would prefere a dropdown box with selected user-actions from the actions dialog, instead having to check what I need this time). That's fine but only if you need to apply several at one time.
Maybe you could add a dropdown list of favourite actions (or is it already hidden somewhere?).
* * *
Wim van der Vegt
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2008, 11:05am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-rename-directory/6126/4 "2008-01-26T11:05:13Z")
That's included in the latest beta 🙂
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### Author:  [@egd](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/egd)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2008, 11:29pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-rename-directory/6126/5 "2008-04-11T23:29:15Z")
> [@dano](#):
>
> It's already possible:
>
> _Action type:_ **Format value**
> _Field:_ **\_DIRECTORY**
> _Formatstring:_ **%artist% - %album%**
A quick question - actions are ordinarily run against a series of files...does this mean that selecting all files in a folder that make up an album will result in the action being run as many times as there are files in that folder?
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2008, 7:51am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-rename-directory/6126/6 "2008-04-12T07:51:57Z")
While this is generally true, directories are only renamed once and export action are also executed only once at the end of all other action operations.