# How to batch organize music files into album subfolders by genre using metadata (migrating from iTunes)?
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-batch-organize-music-files-into-album-subfolders-by-genre-using-metadata-migrating-from-itunes/68826
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [June 12, 2025, 7:04am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-batch-organize-music-files-into-album-subfolders-by-genre-using-metadata-migrating-from-itunes/68826 "2025-06-12T07:04:27Z")
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### Author:  [@Pierre](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Pierre)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2025, 7:04am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-batch-organize-music-files-into-album-subfolders-by-genre-using-metadata-migrating-from-itunes/68826/1 "2025-06-12T07:04:27Z")
Hi all,
I’ve digitized about 1,000 CDs over the years into iTunes, and everything was well organized there by _Genre \> Album_. Now, I’m moving away from iTunes and have exported my entire library by copying tracks into genre-based folders on Windows (e.g., `Rock` , `Jazz` , `Classical` , etc.).
The issue is that within each genre folder, all tracks are lumped together—alphabetically or otherwise—but there are no album groupings anymore.
Each track still has proper metadata (artist, album, track number, etc.).
**What I’d like to do:**
Automatically sort and move tracks into subfolders by album (to create automatically) within each genre folder, based entirely on the metadata.
**Can we do it with MP3tag ?**
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2025, 7:29am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-batch-organize-music-files-into-album-subfolders-by-genre-using-metadata-migrating-from-itunes/68826/2 "2025-06-12T07:29:08Z")
See the FAQs:
> [@Converters to rename files or to import tags](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/converters-to-rename-files-or-to-import-tags/8016/2):
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> How to rename files based on tags? Renaming files, creating folders and complete directory structures from tags can be done by using the [:mt\_ttf:] Converter \> Tag - Filename with a format string. A format string is used to describe the structure of the desired filename. Besides using normal placeholders (such as %artist%, %title%, ...) and arbitrary text (e.g., Music) it also allows for separating folders with the backslash \ character. Here is an example that renames the file based on the t…
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2025, 7:29am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-batch-organize-music-files-into-album-subfolders-by-genre-using-metadata-migrating-from-itunes/68826/3 "2025-07-12T07:29:21Z")
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