# Getting an %album% field from the name of the forum **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [August 4, 2017, 11:26am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/getting-an-album-field-from-the-name-of-the-forum/19196 "2017-08-04T11:26:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![puternut](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/9f8e36/32.png) [@puternut](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/puternut)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2017, 11:26am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/getting-an-album-field-from-the-name-of-the-forum/19196/1 "2017-08-04T11:26:16Z")
Good afternoon peeps As a brand newbie to Mp3TAG (Sorry for using a rival software) I am attempting to do the following I have about 200 folders with 20 or so mp3s in each (3922 files). **Is it simple to populate the %album% field with the name of the containing folder?** Am I looking at complicated scripts but I hope I don't need any kind of CBBD files. Any help appreciated. Mike C (aka pNut) ---
**Author:** ![poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/poster/32/4881_2.png) [@poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/poster)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2017, 11:40am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/getting-an-album-field-from-the-name-of-the-forum/19196/2 "2017-08-04T11:40:14Z")
Mark your files. Convert menue Tag - Tag Field: ALBUM Format String: %\_directory% ---
**Author:** ![puternut](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/9f8e36/32.png) [@puternut](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/puternut)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2017, 2:31pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/getting-an-album-field-from-the-name-of-the-forum/19196/3 "2017-08-04T14:31:17Z")
You have saved me so much time and trouble poster as it worked perfectly on a trial of a couple of directories before I try it on the full folders. Many Many Thanks pNut ---
**Author:** ![puternut](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/9f8e36/32.png) [@puternut](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/puternut)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2017, 2:56pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/getting-an-album-field-from-the-name-of-the-forum/19196/4 "2017-08-04T14:56:23Z")
P.S. I found it doesn't like to re-write more than about 3-400 files at a time. Still a lot quicker - and more accurate - than doing individually ---
**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:** [August 4, 2017, 3:18pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/getting-an-album-field-from-the-name-of-the-forum/19196/5 "2017-08-04T15:18:35Z")
> [@puternut](#): > > P.S. > > I found it doesn't like to re-write more than about 100 files at a time. > > Still a lot quicker - and more accurate - than doing individually I do not think that there is a limit of just a hundred files. It goes well into the tens of thousands when loading. Why do you think there is such a limit? ---
**Author:** ![puternut](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/9f8e36/32.png) [@puternut](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/puternut)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2017, 3:44pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/getting-an-album-field-from-the-name-of-the-forum/19196/6 "2017-08-04T15:44:38Z")
> [@ohrenkino](#): > > I do not think that there is a limit of just a hundred files. It goes well into the tens of thousands when loading. > Why do you think there is such a limit? Just edited my reply a little ( up to 3-400). When I selected all 3000+ files it got about 150 and really SSSLLLOOOWWWEEEDDD down. Just my observation. ---
**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:** [August 4, 2017, 4:01pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/getting-an-album-field-from-the-name-of-the-forum/19196/7 "2017-08-04T16:01:14Z")
I do not think that this is an MP3tag problem but much more something that has to do with your local hardware and other pieces of equipment. Also: simultaneously running processes like indexers, other media players that check their watched folders, cloud synchronization could effect this. See if there is anything you can optimize . ---
**Author:** ![DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/detlevd/32/123_2.png) [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2017, 4:25pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/getting-an-album-field-from-the-name-of-the-forum/19196/8 "2017-08-04T16:25:06Z")
> [@puternut](#): > > Just edited my reply a little ( up to 3-400). > When I selected all 3000+ files it got about 150 and really SSSLLLOOOWWWEEEDDD down.Just my observation. There must be going on something evil on your machine. 😉 I have just created 2000 mp3 files with tag types (ID3v1 ID3v2.4), with no covers embedded, stored into 100 folders. On a Win XP machine with 1 Ghz-Pentium-3 Processor it needs 20 seconds, ... to save the folder name into the ALBUM tag-field. Tagging on 4000 mp3 files with tag types (ID3v1 ID3v2.4), with no covers embedded, stored into 200 folders, on same machine, on different drive, runs 90 seconds. DD.20170804.2045.CEST ---
**Author:** ![puternut](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/9f8e36/32.png) [@puternut](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/puternut)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2017, 7:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/getting-an-album-field-from-the-name-of-the-forum/19196/9 "2017-08-04T19:28:09Z")
Yep - must be something evil but hey - it took a little longer. I'm retired, busy doing nothing and just pleased I got it done far faster than I anticipated. Thank you and goodnight 😃 😃 😃 ---
**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, 12:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/getting-an-album-field-from-the-name-of-the-forum/19196/10 "2026-02-09T12:26:55Z")