# Need help with Directory naming action
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/need-help-with-directory-naming-action/1900
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [April 21, 2005, 4:22am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/need-help-with-directory-naming-action/1900 "2005-04-21T04:22:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@eyemthatguy](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/eyemthatguy)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2005, 4:22am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/need-help-with-directory-naming-action/1900/1 "2005-04-21T04:22:56Z")
Hi. I just installed mp3tag about 2 hours ago.
I am enjoying the many abilities already, especially renaming multiple files/directories on the fly, as opposed to 1 by 1.
This brings me to my question.
I created a new Action to rename files and create directories following my preferred structure.
D:\%artist% - %year% - %album% - %\_bitrate%\%track% %title%
This works great, for files that are CBR, however VBR files create numerous directories (1 per file with its own bitrate)
2 questions:
is it possible to (and if so how can i?) get all VBR to still be in 1 folder?
is it possible to have the bitrate surrounded by [] as opposed to seperated by a dash.
ie. this ~\> va - hed kandi - 2005 - spring sampler 1.05 [vbr] OR [cbr] depending on files.
I hope this is clear since i am up late
---
### Author:  [@Sebastian\_Mares](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Sebastian_Mares)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2005, 5:36am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/need-help-with-directory-naming-action/1900/2 "2005-04-21T05:36:51Z")
You can check if a file is CBR or VBR using this:
```
$if($eql(%_vbr%,VBR),File is VBR,File is CBR)
```
So, in your case...
```
D:\\%artist% - %year% - %album% - $if($eql(%_vbr%,VBR),VBR,%_bitrate%)\\%track% %title%
```
If I am not mistaken, in order to use [and], you have to surround them by single quotes, so '[' and ']'.
---
### Author:  [@eyemthatguy](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/eyemthatguy)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2005, 4:26am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/need-help-with-directory-naming-action/1900/3 "2005-04-22T04:26:06Z")
> [@](#):
>
> You can check if a file is CBR or VBR using this:
>
> ```
> $if($eql(%_vbr%,VBR),File is VBR,File is CBR)
>
> ```
>
> So, in your case...
>
> ```
> D:\\%artist% - %year% - %album% - $if($eql(%_vbr%,VBR),VBR,%_bitrate%)\\%track% %title%
>
> ```
>
> If I am not mistaken, in order to use [and], you have to surround them by single quotes, so '[' and ']'.
>
> \<{POST\_SNAPBACK}\>
Thank you for the config. It works great!
I now as a result have 2 new issues. I swear Ill catch on to this eventually.
1. when faced with files that are NOT VBR AND are NOT the same bitrate throughout the album, I get multiple folders for each bitrate. Anything I can do to prevent this aside form changing my naming convention?
2. I have run across tracks where the year is different for each track, thus adding to more folder/directories being created. This issue is a bit easier for me to think of a fix on, as I want to copy existing YEAR data and xfer it to the COMMENT field, and then replace the year column with a single year. Any ideas on how to manage this simply?
Thanks for the hand holding on this, thus far. lol i cant help but think about when i dabble in making track listings in html. 😳
---
### Author:  [@Sebastian\_Mares](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Sebastian_Mares)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2005, 4:57am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/need-help-with-directory-naming-action/1900/4 "2005-04-22T04:57:02Z")
> [@](#):
>
> 1. when faced with files that are NOT VBR AND are NOT the same bitrate throughout the album, I get multiple folders for each bitrate. Anything I can do to prevent this aside form changing my naming convention?
>
> \<{POST\_SNAPBACK}\>
Sorry, but I guess this is not possible.
> [@](#):
>
> 1. I have run across tracks where the year is different for each track, thus adding to more folder/directories being created. This issue is a bit easier for me to think of a fix on, as I want to copy existing YEAR data and xfer it to the COMMENT field, and then replace the year column with a single year. Any ideas on how to manage this simply?
>
> Thanks for the hand holding on this, thus far. lol i cant help but think about when i dabble in making track listings in html. 😳
>
> \<{POST\_SNAPBACK}\>
You can create a new "Format values" action. As target field use "COMMENT" and as format string use "%year%". After you ran the action over your files, simply change the year value and save the tags.
---
### Author:  [@eyemthatguy](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/eyemthatguy)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2005, 5:15am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/need-help-with-directory-naming-action/1900/5 "2005-04-22T05:15:21Z")
> [@](#):
>
> Sorry, but I guess this is not possible.
> You can create a new "Format values" action. As target field use "COMMENT" and as format string use "%year%". After you ran the action over your files, simply change the year value and save the tags.
>
> \<{POST\_SNAPBACK}\>
thank you for your insight and time. I think I may end up leaving out the bitrates for those rather than changing the naming convention totally.
That sounds like a good plan of action. Thank you again.
gnight.
---
### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/need-help-with-directory-naming-action/1900/6 "2026-02-09T12:19:22Z")