# Newbie help

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/newbie-help/17584
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [January 23, 2016, 1:15pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/newbie-help/17584 "2016-01-23T13:15:35Z")
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### Author: ![benjarlett](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/eada6e/32.png) [@benjarlett](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/benjarlett)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2016, 1:15pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/newbie-help/17584/1 "2016-01-23T13:15:35Z")

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I've got a late library of music I'm trying to import back from a rather silly mp3 player that has all the music on it untagged and named so:

track1.mp3  
track2.mp3  
track3.mp3  
and so on...

with each bunch of tracks in a folder entitled  
_artistname_ _album name_

so for example apex twins album spyro would be:

aphex twin spiro/track1.mp3  
aphex twin spiro/track2.mp3

I see that you can select a few files and put in the _artistname_ _album name_ into a freedb search and seemly come back with a fairly reliable match, which then updates the missing tag data (very cool)...but can I do the whole shebang at once....there are 1000s of albums and doing it one by ones gonna take me days... 😳

Yours hopefully  
Ben

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### Author: ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2016, 3:13pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/newbie-help/17584/2 "2016-01-23T15:13:54Z")

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> [@Ben Jarlett](#):
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> ...but can I do the whole shebang at once...

No

> [@](#):
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> .... doing it one by ones gonna take me days...

Yes.

But you can try to get the album/artist information and the track number into the tags with the Convert\>Filename-Tag function  
If the artist and the album are not separated by some kind of limiter then it is going to be difficult.  
Otherwise you can try:  
%artist% %album%\track%track%
