# Rename Album After Folder
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/rename-album-after-folder/49955
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 18, 2020, 7:02pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/rename-album-after-folder/49955 "2020-08-18T19:02:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@AlonzoMosley](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/AlonzoMosley)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2020, 7:02pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/rename-album-after-folder/49955/1 "2020-08-18T19:02:31Z")
I see a lot of threads on how to rename a folder after the tags. I want to go the opposite route.
My folders are all named properly - it's the "Album" tag that's all facacte.
It's a few hundred files in a few dozen folders - and I'd like each of the files to pick up its individual Folder Name as its Album tag.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2020, 7:15pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/rename-album-after-folder/49955/2 "2020-08-18T19:15:37Z")
Importing data from the folder structure is described in the FAQs:
> [@Converters to rename files or to import tags](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/converters-to-rename-files-or-to-import-tags/8016/3):
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> How to import parts of the filename into the tag? Importing tags from filenames and directory names can be done by using the [Converter \> Filename - Tag] Converter \> Filename - Tag. The basic concept is the notion of a format string which describes the structure of the name to import from. The format string is built of either standard text (e.g., Music), placeholders (such as %artist%, %title%, ...), or backslash characters \ that denote directory structures. Here is an example that imports t…
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### Author:  [@AlonzoMosley](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/AlonzoMosley)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2020, 7:30pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/rename-album-after-folder/49955/3 "2020-08-18T19:30:16Z")
Thanks for the reference, but that makes absolutely zero sense to me.
The Filename is already the same as the Title tag.
I want the Album tag to be the same as the Folder (i.e., subdirectory) name.
In Mp3Tag, I am selecting the uppermost folder in the "Directory" field - so all of my files show in the window.
And when I go to "Convert\>Filename-Tag" (NOT "ConvertER"), it wants to rename the Title, not the Album.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2020, 7:36pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/rename-album-after-folder/49955/4 "2020-08-18T19:36:32Z")
I quote from the linked FAQ topic:
" Of course, sometimes it's also needed to omit some information that should not imported to the tag. This can be done using the `%dummy%` placeholder for the unneeded part of the file path."
The path probably looks like
`folder\filename`
the folder is to become the ALBUM,
so it is
`%album%\filename`
and as you do not need the filename, you can omit it, which can be done, as the HowTo tells you, by using %dummy%:
`%album%\%dummy%`
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### Author:  [@AlonzoMosley](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/AlonzoMosley)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2020, 7:40pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/rename-album-after-folder/49955/5 "2020-08-18T19:40:13Z")
Thank you. Maybe _I'm_ the dummy (spoiler: I'm not), but I never would have derived those instructions from the HowTo.
Your specific instructions did the trick. Thank you.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/rename-album-after-folder/49955/6 "2026-02-09T12:28:47Z")