# Formatstrings

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/formatstrings/1648
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [January 23, 2005, 1:44pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/formatstrings/1648 "2005-01-23T13:44:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![Gweilo](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Gweilo](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Gweilo)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2005, 1:44pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/formatstrings/1648/1 "2005-01-23T13:44:46Z")

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I had quite a time getting my formatstring together the way I wanted it. Post your preferred formatstrings in here to help other users get their desired formatstrings quicker.

D:\MP3$if($left(%artist%,1),$left(%artist%,1),u)$if(%artist%,%artist%,unknown)$if(%album% ,%album%,unknown)$if($num(%track%,2),$num(%track%,2),00) $if(%title%,%title%,unknown)

will convert files to: D:\MP3\A\Artist\Album\02 Title.mp3

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### Author: ![endavis](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/0ea827/32.png) [@endavis](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/endavis)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2005, 8:43pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/formatstrings/1648/2 "2005-03-26T20:43:43Z")

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Here's mine, just thought I would share it with you.

It does one of 3 things:

1. It checks to see if the comment field contains only the word 'Various'  
If it does, then one of two things happens:  
a. If the genre is Soundtrack then it saves it to the base 'Soundtrack' directory  
b. Otherwise, it save the album to the 'Various Artists' directory

2. Otherwise it saves it to the 'first letter of artist/Artist/' directory

So my directory structure looks like this

```
BaseDir
  -> A
  -> B (this goes on)
    -> Artist
      -> Album - Year
        -> Track - Title.mp3
  -> Soundtracks
    -> Album - Year
      -> Track - Artist - Title.mp3
  -> Various Artists
    -> Album - Year
      -> Track - Artist - Title.mp3

```

Eric

**Edit:** Used codeboxes instead of simple code DIVs since the board layout got screwed.