# Renaming directories
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renaming-directories/7710
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [January 5, 2009, 9:48pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renaming-directories/7710 "2009-01-05T21:48:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@b\_rad](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/b_rad)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2009, 9:48pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renaming-directories/7710/1 "2009-01-05T21:48:37Z")
I'd like to replace the parenthesis with brackets in every album's folder, as follows:
currently: %artist% - %album% (%year%)\%filename%
to: %artist% - %album% '['%year%']'\%filename%
Is this possible? I've been trying to use the convert tool "filename - filename" but I'm stumped. Could anyone help?
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2009, 7:13pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renaming-directories/7710/2 "2009-01-06T19:13:50Z")
Make a [new action](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/967/1)
_Action type:_ **Format value**
_Field:_ **\_DIRECTORY**
_Formatstring:_ **$replace(%\_directory%,'(','[',')',']')**
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### Author:  [@b\_rad](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/b_rad)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2009, 11:32pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renaming-directories/7710/3 "2009-01-06T23:32:58Z")
Thanks, dano. Worked perfectly!
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renaming-directories/7710/4 "2026-02-09T12:21:17Z")