# Organizing my files
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/organizing-my-files/14953
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 1, 2013, 9:41pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/organizing-my-files/14953 "2013-08-01T21:41:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Great1577](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Great1577)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2013, 9:41pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/organizing-my-files/14953/1 "2013-08-01T21:41:20Z")
Hello all,
I was wondering if you could help me sort a few thousand songs that I currently have in folders by artist and album to year (like 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s etc) and genre? I want the changes to be saved on my external hard drive (where all this music currently is). Thanks for your help!!!
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2013, 4:02am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/organizing-my-files/14953/2 "2013-08-02T04:02:18Z")
Provided that you have filled tags in the files you can use the converter Tag-Filename and (as an example) the following mask:
f:\mp3music\%artist%\%year% - %album%$num(%track%, 3) \_ %title%
If you want to create a new structure from a more or less chaotic one, you simply enter a fully qualified filename (with drive letter and full path plus the plain filename without suffix).
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### Author:  [@i\_edgars](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/i_edgars)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2013, 5:46am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/organizing-my-files/14953/3 "2013-08-02T05:46:57Z")
f:\mp3music\%genre%\%year%\%artist%\%year% - %album%$num(%track%, 3). %title%
f:\mp3music\%genre%\%year%\Compilation\%year% - %album%$num(%track%, 3). %title%
[/t/14613/1](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/14613/1)
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/organizing-my-files/14953/4 "2026-02-09T12:24:36Z")