# Hotkey selection of all tracks in a folder **URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/hotkey-selection-of-all-tracks-in-a-folder/8577 **Category:** General Discussion **Created:** [July 8, 2009, 3:03pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/hotkey-selection-of-all-tracks-in-a-folder/8577 "2009-07-08T15:03:01Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 1
### Author: ![egd](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/3da27b/32.png) [@egd](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/egd) #### Post date: [July 8, 2009, 3:03pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/hotkey-selection-of-all-tracks-in-a-folder/8577/1 "2009-07-08T15:03:01Z")
I'm curious as to why to date there has been no attempt to implement a hotkey selection of all files in a given folder when multiple folders have been loaded into mp3tag? Is it a lot of coding effort to enable a user to hit a hotkey and have mp3tag automatically select all loaded files residing in the same folder as the file(s) that happened to be selected at the time the hotkey was pressed? To my mind the key purpose of mp3tag is to facilitate tag editing, and being able to highlight a single file and then hit a hotkey to select all loaded audio files in that folder would be a massive boon to ease/ speed of use. Anyone processing multiple albums knows that it's a pain in the proverbial to have to highlight the top or bottom file, position the mouse cursor, hold down shift and click the mouse button to achieve the same result or to drag and highlight with the mouse for that matter. The current selection mechanisms quickly become tedious and can be error prone as you over and/or undershoot the selection. When using mp3tag I typically load an entire subset of my library at a time (e.g. 0-E) and then proceed to check things album by album, often by viewing extended tags. Having to use the current selection process is really highly inefficient and error prone. Please would you consider adding this functional enhancement...soon? --- _[View the full topic](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/hotkey-selection-of-all-tracks-in-a-folder/8577)._