# Renaming folders (using discogs)
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renaming-folders-using-discogs/12271
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [July 13, 2011, 8:39pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renaming-folders-using-discogs/12271 "2011-07-13T20:39:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@pxgr](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/pxgr)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2011, 8:39pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renaming-folders-using-discogs/12271/1 "2011-07-13T20:39:36Z")
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### Author:  [@pone](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/pone)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2011, 9:29pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renaming-folders-using-discogs/12271/2 "2011-07-13T21:29:57Z")
What do you mean with "\_DIRECTORY only reads data from the tags in the files themselves"?
\_DIRECTORY does not read any tags, it's only the folder name.
You can't combine web sources and actions in a group which runs automatic. And you can't write \_DIRECTORY or \_FILENAME with web sources.
But there is of course a simple action for you which you can run after you have tagged your files with one of the discogs web scripts:
Action: Format Value
Field: \_DIRECTORY
Formatstring: %artist% - %album% '['%year%']' '['%country%']' '['%genre%']'
Maybe you should use %albumartist% instead of %artist%, but that's up to you.
And maybe you need %discogs\_country% instead of %country%, that depends on the scipt you are using.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renaming-folders-using-discogs/12271/3 "2026-02-09T12:23:13Z")