# Import tags from foldername with "\\" - how?

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/import-tags-from-foldername-with-how/70565
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [January 24, 2026, 10:48am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/import-tags-from-foldername-with-how/70565 "2026-01-24T10:48:32Z")
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### Author: ![music-laura](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@music-laura](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/music-laura)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2026, 10:48am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/import-tags-from-foldername-with-how/70565/1 "2026-01-24T10:48:32Z")

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Hi all

The foldername is: ABC - DEF (2026, Joe Roe)

The current filename is Test

**Album** : ABC

**Title:** DEF

**Interpret** : Joe Roe

The documentation mentions to use “\” in order to refer to foldername rather filename.

So when I go to convert Filename - Tag with formatstring:  
`\%title% - %album% (%year%, %artist%)`

Nothing happens, no preview, and no change.

Where is the mistake I make?

 ![grafik](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/3X/e/7/e7384296c5a14dd2748597ae424b8226d76b5e58.png)

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### Author: ![LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/c6cbf5/32.png) [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2026, 11:05am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/import-tags-from-foldername-with-how/70565/2 "2026-01-24T11:05:38Z")

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In your example screenshot the filename is `Test.m4b`  
The expected filename is `DEF - ABC (2020, Joe Roe).m4b`  
You only see a preview (with fieldnames and the future content), if the selected filename really matches your Format string, and vice versa.

 ![image](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/3X/4/3/431c536316cbf18539ccb74390d054243733d1cf.png)

If you want to get the fieldname content from your folder name,  
 ![image](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/3X/b/4/b4f48e140c44e8b5b139c2fcb38b63fa2bb777a7.png)  
the Format string should look like this:  
`%title% - %album% (%year%, %artist%)\%dummy%`

 ![image](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/3X/b/5/b5e3ca5255f6c45acfb8fb5a578d361553f04437.png)

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### Author: ![music-laura](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@music-laura](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/music-laura)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2026, 12:54pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/import-tags-from-foldername-with-how/70565/3 "2026-01-24T12:54:06Z")

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> [@LyricsLover](#):
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> `%title% - %album% (%year%, %artist%)\%dummy%`

This was the missing part, the “\`%dummy%`“

From the page [Import Tags from File and Folder Names](https://docs.mp3tag.de/converters/import-tags-from-filenames/), I couldn’t read out that

1. \ comes at the end and

2. add `%dummy%`

Now it works perfectly; thank you so much LL.

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### Author: ![LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/c6cbf5/32.png) [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2026, 1:02pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/import-tags-from-foldername-with-how/70565/4 "2026-01-24T13:02:21Z")

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You're welcome @music-laura.

The filename itself is usually also part of the conversion Filename -\> Tag.  
Therefore, the example in the documentation states the following:

> For example, the information from the path  
> `Nils Frahm\[2018] All Meldoy\09 - Momentum.mp3`  
> can be imported using  
> `%artist%\[%year%] %album%\%track% - %title%`

Using `%dummy%` indicates "ignore this part".

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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 23, 2026, 1:03pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/import-tags-from-foldername-with-how/70565/5 "2026-02-23T13:03:16Z")

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