# Setting full directory path to "Genre" tag?

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/setting-full-directory-path-to-genre-tag/8568
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [July 6, 2009, 4:47pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/setting-full-directory-path-to-genre-tag/8568 "2009-07-06T16:47:19Z")
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### Author: ![entlassen](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/bbe5ce/32.png) [@entlassen](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/entlassen)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2009, 4:47pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/setting-full-directory-path-to-genre-tag/8568/1 "2009-07-06T16:47:19Z")

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Hello,

Since my iTunes cannot sort of filepath, I was thinking I could just copy the whole filepath string and set it as my Genre tag, and then sort by Genre in my iPod.

In other words, if I have three mp3's with full filepath that look like this:  
C:\Music\foo\A.mp3  
C:\Music\foo\bar\B.mp3  
C:\Music\foo\bar\baz\C.mp3

then the Genre tags for those mp3's would look like, respectively,  
C:\Music\foo  
C:\Music\foo\bar  
C:\Music\foo\bar\baz

The final effect would be that in my iTunes when I sort by Genre, I will essentially have a flattened view of my directory structure.

I've looked at the documentation and also FAQ at [/t/8016/1](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/8016/1) and it does not do what I want to do. The reason is because in my file structure, I have a variable number of subdirectories between my C:\Music root and the actual filename.mp3; using something like %genre%\%genre%\%dummy% doesn't work for me, since any given mp3 could be nestled 2-5 parent directories between it and the C:\Music root. I don't care about parsing/extracting any of the subdirectory names between my root and filename.mp3, I just want to get the whole path and use it as my Genre.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. 🙂

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### Author: ![dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/dano/32/6_2.png) [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2009, 4:59pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/setting-full-directory-path-to-genre-tag/8568/2 "2009-07-06T16:59:20Z")

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[/t/8527/1](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/8527/1)

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### Author: ![entlassen](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/bbe5ce/32.png) [@entlassen](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/entlassen)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2009, 5:02pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/setting-full-directory-path-to-genre-tag/8568/3 "2009-07-06T17:02:58Z")

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Awesome, exactly what I was looking for! Thanks for the quick reply. 🙂