# mp3 tag and creating directories
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3-tag-and-creating-directories/4252
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [December 28, 2006, 9:48pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3-tag-and-creating-directories/4252 "2006-12-28T21:48:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@malldian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/malldian)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2006, 9:48pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3-tag-and-creating-directories/4252/1 "2006-12-28T21:48:02Z")
When i go to rename a folder where the artist year and album are defined, I do format value, change value of directory and change it to %artist%\%year% - %album%
It then creates like 15 directories of %artist% so it is %artist%\%artist%\%artist%\%artist%\%artist%\%artist%\%artist%\%album%\
Please help, such a headache now with all the folders like that.
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### Author:  [@malldian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/malldian)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2006, 1:37am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3-tag-and-creating-directories/4252/2 "2006-12-30T01:37:09Z")
can anyone tell me how to make it artist/year - album/ ?
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### Author:  [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2006, 2:29am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3-tag-and-creating-directories/4252/3 "2006-12-30T02:29:46Z")
Please explain the problem with more and better words and details.
What do you do?
What status do you currently have and what do you want?
Show us a previous-next example.
DD.20061230.0430
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2006, 7:44am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3-tag-and-creating-directories/4252/4 "2006-12-30T07:44:11Z")
At the moment you must select only one file per directory when you run that action!
This problem was fixed but it seems is has come back in recent versions.
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### Author:  [@malldian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/malldian)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2006, 9:29pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3-tag-and-creating-directories/4252/5 "2006-12-30T21:29:08Z")
Any idea which versions had it fixed?
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2007, 11:11am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3-tag-and-creating-directories/4252/6 "2007-01-14T11:11:55Z")
> [@malldian](#):
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> Any idea which versions had it fixed?
The latest [Development Build](http://developer.mp3tag.de) fixes this problem.
Best regards,
Florian
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3-tag-and-creating-directories/4252/7 "2026-02-09T12:20:04Z")