# Folder name to Artist and Album

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/folder-name-to-artist-and-album/56574
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 3, 2022, 7:15pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/folder-name-to-artist-and-album/56574 "2022-03-03T19:15:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author: ![Cafony](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/cafony/32/7324_2.png) [@Cafony](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Cafony)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2022, 7:15pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/folder-name-to-artist-and-album/56574/1 "2022-03-03T19:15:43Z")

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Can you make option to convert folder name to TAG "Artist" "Album"?  
It would be very usefull  
I got a lot of CD on my hard drive and it would be easy to name tags

Thanks

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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: [March 3, 2022, 7:18pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/folder-name-to-artist-and-album/56574/2 "2022-03-03T19:18:10Z")

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Did you have a look at the FAQs/HowTos?

> [@Converters to rename files or to import tags](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/converters-to-rename-files-or-to-import-tags/8016/3):
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> How to import parts of the filename into the tag? Importing tags from filenames and directory names can be done by using the [Converter \> Filename - Tag] Converter \> Filename - Tag. The basic concept is the notion of a format string which describes the structure of the name to import from. The format string is built of either standard text (e.g., Music), placeholders (such as %artist%, %title%, ...), or backslash characters \ that denote directory structures. Here is an example that imports t…

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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: [March 3, 2022, 7:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/folder-name-to-artist-and-album/56574/4 "2022-03-03T19:23:17Z")

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So what did you try so far?  
(as most of the techniques are described in the linked post)

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### Author: ![Cafony](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/cafony/32/7324_2.png) [@Cafony](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Cafony)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2022, 7:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/folder-name-to-artist-and-album/56574/5 "2022-03-03T19:23:40Z")

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Ok, I never think of that 🙂  
Going to try  
Thanks

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### Author: ![Cafony](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/cafony/32/7324_2.png) [@Cafony](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Cafony)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2022, 7:31pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/folder-name-to-artist-and-album/56574/6 "2022-03-03T19:31:34Z")

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![rename from folder](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/6/6f39950fe664344707d2fa4e092a2d7109040fd6.jpeg)  
Can you please take a look.  
This is the structure of my folders  
Thanks

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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: [March 3, 2022, 7:32pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/folder-name-to-artist-and-album/56574/7 "2022-03-03T19:32:51Z")

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Try Converter\>Filename-Tag  
Pattern: `%artist% - %album%\%dummy%`

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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, 12:29pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/folder-name-to-artist-and-album/56574/9 "2026-02-09T12:29:41Z")

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