# Renaming: Create grouping directories of 3 letters
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renaming-create-grouping-directories-of-3-letters/16986
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [June 22, 2015, 4:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renaming-create-grouping-directories-of-3-letters/16986 "2015-06-22T16:27:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@feuervogel](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/feuervogel)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2015, 4:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renaming-create-grouping-directories-of-3-letters/16986/1 "2015-06-22T16:27:02Z")
Hi Forum,
I have so many Artist folders that I want to group them to have a better overview in the car.
e.g. Music\ABC\ABBA... or Music\DEF\Deichkind...
without grouping it is easy:
Music\%artist%...
But does MP3tag offer a solution to generate the ABC or DEF folders depending on the first letter of the artist?
Media Monkey for example offers that functionality using [artist@n](mailto:artist@n) (n is 3 in this case)
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2015, 4:48pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renaming-create-grouping-directories-of-3-letters/16986/2 "2015-06-22T16:48:48Z")
Back 2010 there was a similar a request in the German section - perhaps you can do something with gnor's code
[http://forums.mp3tag.de/lofiversion/index.php?t11229.html](http://forums.mp3tag.de/lofiversion/index.php?t11229.html)
In the example the steps were a-b c-d which led to $div($left(%artist,1),2)
So perhaps if you want a step width of 3, you would have to replace the 2s with 3s:
$char($sub($mul($div($add($ord($left($upper(%artist%),1)),1),2),2),1))-$char($mul($div($add($ord($left($upper(%artist%),1)),1),2),2))
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### Author:  [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2015, 6:03pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renaming-create-grouping-directories-of-3-letters/16986/3 "2015-06-22T18:03:11Z")
> [@feueervogel](#):
>
> Hi Forum,
> I have so many Artist folders that I want to group them to have a better overview in the car.
> e.g. Music\ABC\ABBA... or Music\DEF\Deichkind... does MP3tag offer a solution to generate the ABC or DEF folders depending on the first letter of the artist? ...
Modify this to your needs ...
**$ifgreater($strchr('0123456789',$left(%ARTIST%,1)),0,'0 - 9', $ifgreater($strchr('ABCDEabcde',$left(%ARTIST%,1)),0,'A - E', $ifgreater($strchr('FGHIJKfghijk',$left(%ARTIST%,1)),0,'F - K', $ifgreater($strchr('LMNOPQRlmnopqr',$left(%ARTIST%,1)),0,'L - R', $ifgreater($strchr('STUVWXYZstuvwxyz',$left(%ARTIST%,1)),0,'S - Z','Special')))))**
See also ...
[Export to custom playlist](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/5970/3)
[/t/9954/1](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/9954/1)
DD.20150622.2202.CEST
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### Author:  [@feuervogel](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/feuervogel)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2015, 9:50am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renaming-create-grouping-directories-of-3-letters/16986/4 "2015-07-04T09:50:49Z")
I especially like the idea, Ohrenkino presented here but I decided to take the second suggestion to be more flexible.
This is my Version (like letters on a phone):
```
$ifgreater($strchr('ABCabc',$left(%albumartist%,1)),0,'ABC',
$ifgreater($strchr('DEFdef',$left(%albumartist%,1)),0,'DEF',
$ifgreater($strchr('GHIghi',$left(%albumartist%,1)),0,'GHI',
$ifgreater($strchr('JKLjkl',$left(%albumartist%,1)),0,'JKL',
$ifgreater($strchr('MNOmno',$left(%albumartist%,1)),0,'MNO',
$ifgreater($strchr('PQRSpqrs',$left(%albumartist%,1)),0,'PQRS',
$ifgreater($strchr('TUVtuv',$left(%albumartist%,1)),0,'TUV',
$ifgreater($strchr('WXYZwxyz',$left(%albumartist%,1)),0,'WXYZ','0-9'))))))))
```
thanks for your replies!
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### Author:  [@LaurenBacall](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LaurenBacall)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2015, 10:44am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renaming-create-grouping-directories-of-3-letters/16986/5 "2015-07-04T10:44:43Z")
Neat idea for an action.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:25pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renaming-create-grouping-directories-of-3-letters/16986/6 "2026-02-09T12:25:43Z")