# reorganizing an entire directory structure
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/reorganizing-an-entire-directory-structure/1072
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [June 9, 2004, 1:06pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/reorganizing-an-entire-directory-structure/1072 "2004-06-09T13:06:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@jxhndxe](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/jxhndxe)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2004, 1:06pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/reorganizing-an-entire-directory-structure/1072/1 "2004-06-09T13:06:21Z")
Hello.
I currently have my mp3's organized this way: artist\album\track - title.mp3
I've tried a few other taggers/renamers and none of them seem to reorganize the way I'd like. I want to drop the current directory structure, and restructure it like this: artist\artist\_album\_track\_title.mp3
It seems that when I try to do this with other software, I end up with something like: artist\album\artist\artist\_album\_track\_title.mp3
What I need is to be able to completely start over, and essentially recreate the entire structure into a new directory. Can Mp3tag do this? How is it done?
Thank you.
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### Author:  [@Sebastian\_Mares](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Sebastian_Mares)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2004, 2:08pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/reorganizing-an-entire-directory-structure/1072/2 "2004-06-09T14:08:35Z")
You can use the Tag-Filename converter (ALT+1) together with the place-holders _%title%_, _%artist%_, _%album%_ and _%track%_. By the way, if you want to customize the number of digits to display for the track number, use _$num("%track%", x)_ - whereas _"x"_ is the number of digits to use.
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### Author:  [@Chronial](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Chronial)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2004, 6:16pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/reorganizing-an-entire-directory-structure/1072/3 "2004-06-11T18:16:54Z")
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> It seems that when I try to do this with other software, I end up with something like: artist\album\artist\artist\_album\_track\_title.mp3
Use to windows serach to search for \* in , mark all the files and move thom to wherever you want.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/reorganizing-an-entire-directory-structure/1072/4 "2026-02-09T12:19:13Z")