# Renaming Tool **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [December 20, 2016, 2:57pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renaming-tool/18533 "2016-12-20T14:57:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Beluna](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/ed655f/32.png) [@Beluna](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Beluna)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2016, 2:57pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renaming-tool/18533/1 "2016-12-20T14:57:02Z")
Does anyone know of a great renaming tool. here's what i'm trying to do. Each folder I have has a the following items to support thr album Ex: Natalie Cole - Inseparable (Folder) under the folder: ``` Front.jpg Back.jpg Credits.txt Folder.jpg ``` What I want to do is find a program that labels everything by the folder name, to look like so: Natalie Cole - Inseparable (Folder) Natalie Cole - Inseparable - Front.jpg Natalie Cole - Inseparable - Back.jpg Natalie Cole - Inseparable - Credits.txt Natalie Cole - Inseparable - Folder.jpg Thanks ---
**Author:** ![poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/poster/32/4881_2.png) [@poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/poster)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2016, 3:37pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renaming-tool/18533/2 "2016-12-20T15:37:14Z")
You can do that with Mp3Tag. Go to File \> Options \>tags and add \*.txt and \*.jpg with the semicolon-delimiter to "restrict incoming files to". Load all album-folders to Mp3Tag. Then filter for your TXT- JPG-files. Use the Coverter - TAG-Filename. Format String: %\_directory% - %\_filename% ---
**Author:** ![Beluna](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/ed655f/32.png) [@Beluna](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Beluna)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2016, 10:35pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renaming-tool/18533/3 "2016-12-30T22:35:04Z")
Everything works - but I need , if possible to go one step further. It will label images as requested above as long as it is not in it's own folder. see attached jpg. I need a way to change the Artwork Folder Name to successfully change the images witihn the folder. this: Front.jpg Back.jpg Credits.txt Folder.jpg Now Becomes This: Album Art - Front.jpg Album Art - Back.jpg Album Art - Credits.txt Album Art - Folder.jpg Is there a way MP3Tag can name the folder associated with the Artist. and also the images within the folder. (The attachment may explain better. As I mention, the solution you gave me works, but I have to manually move all the files from under the Art folder and then iI get the results: Natalie Cole - Inseparable (Folder) Natalie Cole - Inseparable - Front.jpg Natalie Cole - Inseparable - Back.jpg Natalie Cole - Inseparable - Credits.txt Natalie Cole - Inseparable - Folder.jpg ![](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/9/921b1d8998b133de19a7651835284cad1c228ad2.jpg) ![](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/9/921b1d8998b133de19a7651835284cad1c228ad2.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/poster/32/4881_2.png) [@poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/poster)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2016, 8:53am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renaming-tool/18533/4 "2016-12-31T08:53:36Z")
> [@Beluna](#): > > Is there a way MP3Tag can name the folder associated with the Artist. and also the images within the folder. The solution I told you works because MP3Tag knows of the tags (Metag-data embedded in files) but also knows lets call it pseudo-tags (information tags), which are not embedded in the files itself. So you can't use the artist-tag or the album-tag because in your jpg- and txt-files there is no such tag embedded and Mp3Tag could not handle them anyway, because they are no music-files. So in my suggestion I used these pseudo-tags: %\_directory% (the directory in which the file resides) %\_filename% (the present name of the file without extension) If your files you want to rename reside in a subdirectoty of the directory thats carries information of artist and/or album in its name, you can use %\_parent\_directory% instead of %\_directory% to rename your files. So you just would have to use: %\_parent\_directory% - %\_filename% But I wonder why you say my original-solution works, because obviously the year is in the name of the directory too. Do you want the year to be in the name of the txt- and -jpg-files too? Otherwise you have to change the format string to: $cutright(%\_parent\_directory%,7) -%\_filename% $cutright(%\_parent\_directory%,7) in this case cuts 7 characters from the name of the parent-directory starting from the end of the name. This naturally only works like this in the case that there is always a year in the name. ---
**Author:** ![Beluna](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/ed655f/32.png) [@Beluna](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Beluna)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2017, 5:50am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renaming-tool/18533/5 "2017-01-03T05:50:01Z")
> [@poster](#): > > The solution I told you works because MP3Tag knows of the tags (Metag-data embedded in files) but also knows lets call it pseudo-tags (information tags), which are not embedded in the files itself. > So you can't use the artist-tag or the album-tag because in your jpg- and txt-files there is no such tag embedded and Mp3Tag could not handle them anyway, because they are no music-files. > > So in my suggestion I used these pseudo-tags: > %\_directory% (the directory in which the file resides) > %\_filename% (the present name of the file without extension) > > If your files you want to rename reside in a subdirectoty of the directory thats carries information of artist and/or album in its name, you can use %\_parent\_directory% instead of %\_directory% to rename your files. > > So you just would have to use: > %\_parent\_directory% - %\_filename% > > But I wonder why you say my original-solution works, because obviously the year is in the name of the directory too. > Do you want the year to be in the name of the txt- and -jpg-files too? > Otherwise you have to change the format string to: > $cutright(%\_parent\_directory%,7) -%\_filename% > > $cutright(%\_parent\_directory%,7) in this case cuts 7 characters from the name of the parent-directory starting from the end of the name. > This naturally only works like this in the case that there is always a year in the name. Perfect Thanks ---
**Author:** ![Beluna](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/ed655f/32.png) [@Beluna](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Beluna)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 1:35pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renaming-tool/18533/6 "2017-01-17T13:35:29Z")
> [@Beluna](#): > > Perfect > Thanks I'm running into a problem where it states the file name is too long. Is there a way to automatically cut off tag name until it matches the folder length? This works for Parent Directory $cutright(%\_parent\_directory%,7) -%\_filename%.... I can manually change the legth 7 to 12, 15 etc. Can it work for this action %\_directory% - %\_filename% Again, when saving files it says... file name is too long. Currently I just shorten the album manually... but that not a good solution when doing several folders. Thanks ---
**Author:** ![poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/poster/32/4881_2.png) [@poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/poster)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 2:22pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renaming-tool/18533/7 "2017-01-17T14:22:09Z")
It is not the filename that is too long, it is the whole path including the filename. [https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/wi...5).aspx#maxpath](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365247(v=vs.85).aspx#maxpath) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2026, 12:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renaming-tool/18533/8 "2026-02-09T12:26:34Z")