# Suggestion: folder rename
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggestion-folder-rename/4812
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [May 2, 2007, 11:18am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggestion-folder-rename/4812 "2007-05-02T11:18:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@zencd](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/zencd)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2007, 11:18am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggestion-folder-rename/4812/1 "2007-05-02T11:18:43Z")
"Folder rename" feature needed.
Surely I could use such patterns under Tage-\>Filename convertion:
..\%artist% - %album%$num("%track%",2) - %title%
But such way I got empty (old) folder, or what's worser I got mp3s within the new folder and logs/covers/playlists/etc within the old one. Additionally, I must change current directory to continue editing of the files moved, that takes time to locate new hide-out of the files.
UPD: solved via Florian
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2007, 7:14pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggestion-folder-rename/4812/2 "2007-05-04T19:14:25Z")
You can try the action Format value for the field \_DIRECTORY which renames the parent directory of the actual file.
Kind regards,
Florian
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### Author:  [@zencd](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/zencd)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2007, 7:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggestion-folder-rename/4812/3 "2007-05-04T19:20:42Z")
thank you! it works
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### Author:  [@Niaphron](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Niaphron)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2007, 7:48pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggestion-folder-rename/4812/4 "2007-05-06T19:48:55Z")
Hi, i'm a new user of mp3tag, but I don't know to use it very well...
Like zencd, I want to rename the folder like this: %artist% - %albulm%. But I don't know how to do that, can you explain to me step by step that?
Thank you very much
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### Author:  [@zencd](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/zencd)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2007, 9:55pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggestion-folder-rename/4812/5 "2007-05-06T21:55:43Z")
Here they are:
goto options (ctrl+o)
press "Actions"
press "New" button (with no title), find it by its popup
type in the name of the action, like "Rename Dir"; press OK surely
press the same lookin "New" button
choose "Format value"; OK
choose "\_DIRECTORY" as value of "Field"
"Formatting string" let be "%artist% - %album%" for the 1st time
press OK as many times as needed
* * *
an action created; then use it
1. select a track in main window
2. press Alt+5
3. select your new action
4. presss OK
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### Author:  [@HankD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/HankD)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2007, 6:49am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggestion-folder-rename/4812/6 "2007-05-07T06:49:20Z")
Is it also possible to make a new folder?
Like a have some of the tracks in my folder that I want to
separate and add to a new folder, based on the same naming structure.
I have now a large folder with three different jazz concerts and I want to
split them into three folders...
I just can't figure it out...I bet it's possible with this incredible program that
I use every day!
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### Author:  [@Niaphron](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Niaphron)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2007, 6:59am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggestion-folder-rename/4812/7 "2007-05-07T06:59:51Z")
Thank you zencd, it works!!!
Great program 
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 6:04pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggestion-folder-rename/4812/8 "2007-05-17T18:04:09Z")
> [@HankD](#):
>
> Is it also possible to make a new folder?
Yes, just use a backslash in your format string like
`%artist%\%year% %album%\%_filename%`
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2025, 4:56pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggestion-folder-rename/4812/9 "2025-02-09T16:56:57Z")
A post was split to a new topic: [Manually rename directory](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/manually-rename-directory/67439)
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2025, 4:57pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggestion-folder-rename/4812/10 "2025-03-11T16:57:17Z")
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