# Rename and move to folder
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/rename-and-move-to-folder/6758
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 4, 2008, 2:40pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/rename-and-move-to-folder/6758 "2008-05-04T14:40:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@ChrisWad](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ChrisWad)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2008, 2:40pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/rename-and-move-to-folder/6758/1 "2008-05-04T14:40:25Z")
I need to rename a file and move it to a set of folders based on the tag details. For example, I have a file which has the following tags:
Artist: ABC
Title: When Smokey Sings
Album: Look Of Love: The Very Best Of ABC
How can I rename the file to the following:
ABC - When Smokey Sings.mps
...and create the following folder structure:
ABC/Look Of Love; The Very Best Of ABC/ABC - When Smokey Sings.mps
Thanks in advacnce for your help
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2008, 2:10pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/rename-and-move-to-folder/6758/2 "2008-05-06T14:10:17Z")
Simply use the converter Tag - Filename with a format string like
`$validate(%artist%\%album%\%artist% - %title%,;)`
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### Author:  [@ChrisWad](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ChrisWad)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2008, 3:50pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/rename-and-move-to-folder/6758/3 "2008-05-08T15:50:09Z")
> [@Florian](#):
>
> Simply use the converter Tag - Filename with a format string like
>
> $validate(%artist%\%album%\%artist% - %title%,😉
Thanks, sounds so simple. 🙂
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### Author:  [@AlanMP3](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/AlanMP3)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2025, 4:40pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/rename-and-move-to-folder/6758/4 "2025-03-09T16:40:40Z")
Is there a 2025 answer to this? I have a gazillion MP3s in \MyMusic burned from CDs of yesteryear, and while they ARE tagged, they are not in folders which Plex really really likes. So I need a way to hopefully automatically put into folders
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2025, 4:53pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/rename-and-move-to-folder/6758/5 "2025-03-09T16:53:42Z")
> [@AlanMP3](#):
>
> Is there a 2025 answer to this?
Why not? Just try it:
> Simply use the converter Tag - Filename with a format string like
> `$validate(%artist%\%album%\%artist% - %title%,;)`
If you have some more detailed questions, please open a new thread.
(This one is 17 years old...)
And please include more details about your current file structure and the wished new file structure. We don't know what your Plex "likes".
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2025, 5:13pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/rename-and-move-to-folder/6758/6 "2025-03-09T17:13:07Z")
> [@AlanMP3](#):
>
> Is there a 2025 answer to this?
There is also an answer in the documentation:
> **[Rename Files – Mp3tag Documentation](https://docs.mp3tag.de/converters/rename-files/#create-folder-structures-based-on-tags)**
>
> Documentation on Tag to Filename, a converter to rename files based on tags. Mp3tag is the universal Tag Editor.
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### Author:  [@AlanMP3](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/AlanMP3)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2025, 6:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/rename-and-move-to-folder/6758/7 "2025-03-09T18:27:48Z")
Perfect! thank you.
I didn't get past the icons in Convert. Didn't see/know where the code went.
Going to be short work from here.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2025, 6:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/rename-and-move-to-folder/6758/8 "2025-04-08T18:28:02Z")
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