# Rename folder by TAG
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/rename-folder-by-tag/8037
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [March 4, 2009, 6:52am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/rename-folder-by-tag/8037 "2009-03-04T06:52:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@maxtail](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/maxtail)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2009, 6:52am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/rename-folder-by-tag/8037/1 "2009-03-04T06:52:27Z")
If I rename the files %artist%\%title%,
it will create a new folder and move all original files to the new folder.
Is it possible for me to rename the original folder directly by tag? (not moving the original files)
Thanks a lot.
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2009, 1:45pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/rename-folder-by-tag/8037/2 "2009-03-04T13:45:04Z")
Convert \> Actions
Format Value with \_DIRECTORY
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### Author:  [@maxtail](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/maxtail)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2009, 2:07pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/rename-folder-by-tag/8037/3 "2009-03-04T14:07:41Z")
Hello dano, thanks a lot for your kind help,
but would you mind telling me more details if I want to rename every folder to "%band% '['%year']' %album%" automatically?
What do I have to fill in the "Original" column? Thanks a lot again.
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2009, 2:13pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/rename-folder-by-tag/8037/4 "2009-03-04T14:13:02Z")
Be careful, there is no 'original'
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### Author:  [@maxtail](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/maxtail)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2009, 2:34pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/rename-folder-by-tag/8037/5 "2009-03-04T14:34:59Z")
Dear dano, THX for ur INCREDIBLE FAST & GREAT help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now it just works perfect as I wish. 😆 a
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### Author:  [@drspiff](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/drspiff)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2009, 6:56pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/rename-folder-by-tag/8037/6 "2009-03-04T18:56:12Z")
Never mind... Florian answered my question about creating folders using tag information. The secret is using the "" to separate the folder name from the filename when doing TAG\>\>FILENAME conversions. Here is the link:
[folders](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/8014/1)
I think I must have missed something in this discussion. I tried doing the Format\_Value for \_Directory but my results are not as expected. I have several mp3s in my window, each of which has a different artist.
I want the new directory to be by %artist%. So I did the format value for \_Directory and put %artist% as the source. As you can see, I should come up with 5 directories for these 8 mp3s. What happens instead is that all 8 mp3s are assigned to the Alice Creech directory and no other directories are created.
I'm sure there is a simple explanation for where I've gone wrong. If not, is this a bug? Or an undocumented feature? 😆
Regards,
Dr. Spiff
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### Author:  [@jgrey](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/jgrey)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2009, 7:48pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/rename-folder-by-tag/8037/7 "2009-11-02T19:48:20Z")
Sorry to dig this back up, but is there a way to append a folder name with a tag? Like say, put bitrate after the existing name? Thank you.
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2009, 2:05pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/rename-folder-by-tag/8037/8 "2009-11-03T14:05:01Z")
You can use that action with
Format string: %\_directory% %\_bitrate%
But if %\_bitrate% is different for each file it does not make much sense.