# Please help with automatic playlist creation
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/please-help-with-automatic-playlist-creation/4588
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 9, 2007, 4:09pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/please-help-with-automatic-playlist-creation/4588 "2007-03-09T16:09:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@hotmonkeyac](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/hotmonkeyac)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2007, 4:09pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/please-help-with-automatic-playlist-creation/4588/1 "2007-03-09T16:09:49Z")
Someone please help. I've read two different posts ([this one](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/889/1) and [this one](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/1154/1)) and I **still** can't figure this out.
I have all of my music in: **C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\My Music**
In this folder there are 500+ folders, each one is a different album.
I have no playlists created and would like to make one for each folder (album) and have it saved in the appropriate folder.
I drug the C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\My Music folder into MP3Tag and it loaded my 9000+ songs. I went to options and in the playlist options I set the filename to **%\_directory%\%artist% - %album%.m3u**. Then I sorted all of the music by filename and and selected **create playlist from all files**.
But it makes 1 playlist in the first folder. It won't createthe 500+ playlists needed. Am I doing something wrong? Please help.
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2007, 5:53pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/please-help-with-automatic-playlist-creation/4588/2 "2007-03-09T17:53:45Z")
You should sort the files by path.
%\_folderpath%%artist% - %album%.m3u might be a better string.
And what's important when you have so many files loaded, keep the Shift-key pressed till the playlist creation process is finished.
And don't select all files, one is enough.
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### Author:  [@hotmonkeyac](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/hotmonkeyac)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2007, 6:33pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/please-help-with-automatic-playlist-creation/4588/3 "2007-03-09T18:33:23Z")
Awesome! That worked perfectly. Thank you.
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### Author:  [@Hawkwind](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Hawkwind)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2011, 8:25am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/please-help-with-automatic-playlist-creation/4588/4 "2011-11-30T08:25:30Z")
I know this one is very, very old but I have a similar problem: what about subdirectories in the albumpath like CD1, CD2, ...?
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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/please-help-with-automatic-playlist-creation/4588/5 "2026-02-09T12:20:11Z")