# 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")
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### Author: ![drspiff](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/e95f7d/32.png) [@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")

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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.

 ![](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/1/1a0431e79675ff8078747038765564c926634d1e.gif)  

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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