I've been away from music tagging with MP3tag (or any other program) for quite some time. Now that I'm back, one change I've noticed is that navigation to music folders on my PC (Win10) is now via Windows Explorer. My recollection is that navigation used to be through a browser built into the mp3tag…

[image] rofi22: My recollection is that navigation used to be through a browser built into the mp3tag application. Back with Windows XP the Windows dialog for selecting folders showed a folder tree to choose a folder from. Mp3tag never had an internal folder tree. I think starting with Windo…

Launching Explorer from within MP3tag doesn't really improve things. IIRC the way it used to be was that you could navigate from the tag panel to whatever music folder you wanted to without having to launch Explorer. If there were mp3 files in that folder that you wanted to modify you could do that …

I linked the 2 threads, which are 18 years apart to give you an impression that any kind of folder tree or whatever you might recall was not there during this period. So it will be hard to point you to a version with that feature.

[image] rofi22: . IIRC the way it used to be was that you could navigate from the tag panel Do you remember this view? [image]

You make a compelling point. According to their properties, most of my music files were added in 2011. Last night I downloaded four versions of mp3tag, one for each year 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013. FWIW, 2010,11, and 12 were flagged by Virus Total (2010 especially severely). 2013 was fine. btw I ass…

Perhaps you don't need to install all those versions just to find out that there is no internal navigation tree or something if you have a look at the changelog: https://www.mp3tag.de/changelog.html The search word "tree" yields no hits. "Navigat" has 11 hits, all dealing mainly with the navigati…

Well that settles it then. What prompted my post is that getting music files in Explorer into the editing pane seemed harder than it had to be. The reason, I guess, was because I was away too long and out of practice. But I remembered there is a workaround that makes it all very easy. My music fold…

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ohrenkino October 17, 2023, 5:21am 2

There are the functions
File>Open folder
and
File>Add folder

which each open an Explorer window.
These functions are also available in the toolbar.
Also have a look at this thread from 2005:

Or this one from 2023: