# filter for mp3’s that have more than one album name in the same folder?
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filter-for-mp3-s-that-have-more-than-one-album-name-in-the-same-folder/12962
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [January 19, 2012, 10:17am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filter-for-mp3-s-that-have-more-than-one-album-name-in-the-same-folder/12962 "2012-01-19T10:17:57Z")
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### Author:  [@bobbydriver](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/bobbydriver)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2012, 10:17am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filter-for-mp3-s-that-have-more-than-one-album-name-in-the-same-folder/12962/1 "2012-01-19T10:17:57Z")
Slightly obscure question I know but is there anyway I can script or filter for mp3’s that have more than one album name in the same folder?
My folder structure is
%Genre%\%artist%\%year% %album%\%track% - %title%
I seem to have a few stray albums folder where the album tag is inconsistent across the mp3s. With about 50,000 mp3s it gets hard to spot them all manually
I can’t figure out how to do it. Maybe that is because it’s impossible but worth asking you clever lot!
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2012, 10:56am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filter-for-mp3-s-that-have-more-than-one-album-name-in-the-same-folder/12962/2 "2012-01-19T10:56:19Z")
I doubt that you can do it within MP3tag as a) the filetype is not Mp3tag's domain and 🕶 MP3tag only looks at the current file but does not compare successive ones.
What you could do is to dump a list of filenames in a text-file and then check this text-file e.g. with Excel.
Open a command shell and navigate to the top folder of your music library
enter the command
dir \*.jpg /b /s \> covers.txt
Open the textfile in e.g. Excel, separate the filenames from the path and then enter a formula like
if(a1;b1;0;1)
and filter for the 1s.
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### Author:  [@bobbydriver](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/bobbydriver)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2012, 12:39pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filter-for-mp3-s-that-have-more-than-one-album-name-in-the-same-folder/12962/3 "2012-01-19T12:39:04Z")
> [@ohrenkino](#):
>
> I doubt that you can do it within MP3tag as a) the filetype is not Mp3tag's domain and 🕶 MP3tag only looks at the current file but does not compare successive ones.
>
> What you could do is to dump a list of filenames in a text-file and then check this text-file e.g. with Excel.
> Open a command shell and navigate to the top folder of your music library
> enter the command
>
> dir \*.jpg /b /s \> covers.txt
> Open the textfile in e.g. Excel, separate the filenames from the path and then enter a formula like
> if(a1;b1;0;1)
> and filter for the 1s.
You’ve put me along the right lines. I can export the folder name and the album tag (using the export facility) and then load them into a database and use SQL to identify the offending tags.
Thanks
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### Author:  [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2012, 6:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filter-for-mp3-s-that-have-more-than-one-album-name-in-the-same-folder/12962/4 "2012-01-19T18:24:13Z")
> [@bobbydriver](#):
>
> Slightly obscure question I know but is there anyway I can script or filter for mp3’s that have more than one album name in the same folder? ...
Maybe this export script can help ...
$filename($getEnv('USERPROFILE')'\Desktop\AlbumDiff.txt',UTF-8)
$loop(%\_folderpath%,1)$loop(%ALBUM%,1)%\_folderpath%' === '%ALBUM%
$loopend()$loopend()
DD.20120119.2025.CET
Possibly this report is a little bit more comfortable to read ...
**1: $filename($getEnv('USERPROFILE')'\Desktop\AlbumDiff.txt',UTF-8)**
**2: $loop(0)$loop(%\_folderpath%,1)$puts(MaxWidth1,$ifgreater($len(%\_folderpath%),$get(MaxWidth1),$len(%\_folderpath%),$get(MaxWidth1)))$loopend()
3: $loop(%\_folderpath%,1)$loop(%ALBUM%,1)$left(%\_folderpath%$repeat($char(32),$get(MaxWidth1)),$get(MaxWidth1))' ==\> '%ALBUM%
4: $loopend()$loopend()$repeat('=',$get(MaxWidth1))$loopend()
5: $loop(0)$loop(%ALBUM%,1)$puts(MaxWidth2,$ifgreater($len(%ALBUM%),$get(MaxWidth2),$len(%ALBUM%),$get(MaxWidth2)))$loopend()
6: $loop(%ALBUM%,1)$loop(%\_folderpath%,1)$left(%ALBUM%$repeat($char(32),$get(MaxWidth2)),$get(MaxWidth2))' ==\> '%\_folderpath%
7: $loopend()$loopend()$repeat('=',$get(MaxWidth2))$loopend()**
DD.20110120.0640.CET
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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/filter-for-mp3-s-that-have-more-than-one-album-name-in-the-same-folder/12962/5 "2026-02-09T12:23:35Z")