# Help with format strings for folders

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-with-format-strings-for-folders/3076
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 22, 2006, 11:58am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-with-format-strings-for-folders/3076 "2006-03-22T11:58:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![imasalad](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/90db22/32.png) [@imasalad](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/imasalad)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2006, 11:58am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-with-format-strings-for-folders/3076/1 "2006-03-22T11:58:56Z")

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Hi there,

Complete novice when it comes to tagging, hopefully this exact question is not answered elsewhere on this site.

I'd like to make a formatting string that allows me to create a directory structure like:

Pearl Jam \ Vitalogy - 1994 \ 10 - Betterman.mp3

That's an example, not exact info of course.

I'd like a directory for the artist, then each album (and year) they release within the first sub-directory, then the actual filename (track number - track title) in the last sub-dir.

Does this make sense?

Thanks in advance for any help! This is a great program.

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### Author: ![Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/florian/32/5759_2.png) [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2006, 12:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-with-format-strings-for-folders/3076/2 "2006-03-22T12:21:19Z")

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Just use the converter ![:mt_ttf:](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/1X/922db76db5d45b2e558d10f3d8c25fb8bc04fd27.png ":mt\_ttf:") Tag - Filename with a format string like %artist%'('%year%')' - %album%$num(%track%,2). %title%  
or

```
C:\Music\\%artist%\'('%year%')' %album%\$num(%track%,2). %title%

```

(I've slightly edited your filenaming scheme 😉)

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### Author: ![imasalad](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/90db22/32.png) [@imasalad](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/imasalad)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2006, 3:18am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-with-format-strings-for-folders/3076/3 "2006-03-24T03:18:16Z")

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Thanks a lot! It works perfectly. Kind regards...

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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, 12:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-with-format-strings-for-folders/3076/4 "2026-02-09T12:19:41Z")

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