# Scanning the Drive
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/scanning-the-drive/397
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [July 23, 2003, 11:17am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/scanning-the-drive/397 "2003-07-23T11:17:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2003, 11:17am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/scanning-the-drive/397/1 "2003-07-23T11:17:13Z")
I am new and my questions might not even make sense, but here it is anyway.
Is there a way to scan the hard drive to bring in all the mp3.s ... into the Mp3tag program?
I have many live concert mps'3 on my hard drive that I would like to tag before I burn them on to cd, so is there a way to capture them all at once?
Again I'm sorry if that makes no sense but please bear with me.
Thanks
Mark
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2003, 12:02pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/scanning-the-drive/397/2 "2003-07-23T12:02:16Z")
G'day tase2,
you can scan hard drives for MP3s by selecting the drive in the _File, Change directory_ dialog. And also make sure, that the option _Subfolders_ is selected.
Please keep in mind, that scanning the whole drive will take a while 😉
With best regards,
~ Florian
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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/scanning-the-drive/397/3 "2026-02-09T12:19:09Z")