# filename to tag help

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filename-to-tag-help/12843
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [December 20, 2011, 9:49pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filename-to-tag-help/12843 "2011-12-20T21:49:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![mrralan](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ec9cab/32.png) [@mrralan](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mrralan)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2011, 9:49pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filename-to-tag-help/12843/1 "2011-12-20T21:49:19Z")

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I store music in the following folder structure...

Artist\Title

I have been using %artist%\%title% but now I also want the artist to fill in the album field. What string do I use that will put the artist folder in both the Artist and Album field?

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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: [December 21, 2011, 5:09am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filename-to-tag-help/12843/2 "2011-12-21T05:09:47Z")

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Whatever it may be good for to put the artist in the album field instead of the album or title:  
you would either have to run the converter twice but with different masks:  
run 1: %artist%\%title% (like you did)  
run 2: %album%\%dummy%

Or you use an action as decribed in [/t/967/1](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/967/1)

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### Author: ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filename-to-tag-help/12843/3 "2026-02-09T12:23:31Z")

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