# Tag-Filename formatting
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-filename-formatting/7003
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [July 5, 2008, 10:25am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-filename-formatting/7003 "2008-07-05T10:25:57Z")
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### Author:  [@rakyr83](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/rakyr83)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2008, 10:25am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-filename-formatting/7003/1 "2008-07-05T10:25:57Z")
First of all: i don't think that my english is very good, so try to understand what i wrote (if you're interested in 😛 )
These are my format string for Tag-Filename (i hope they can be usefull for someone) 🙂
format string for **single artist album** (replace the leading '...' with your music folder):
> ...\$if($and($geql($caps($left($if($eql($left(%artist%,4),'The '),$right(%artist%,$sub($len(%artist%),4)),%artist%),1)),A),$leql($caps($left($if($eql( $left(%artist%,4),'The '),$right(%artist%,$sub($len(%artist%),4)),%artist%),1)),Z)),$caps( $left($if($eql($left(%artist%,4),'The '),$right(%artist%,$sub( $len(%artist%),4)),%artist%),1)),'#')\$if($eql($left(%artist%,4),'The '),$right(%artist%,$sub($len(%artist%),4)),%artist%)\['['%year%']' ]$if($grtr($strstr(%album%,'[Cd'),0),$left(%album%,$sub( $strstr(%album%,'[Cd'),2))\$right(%album%,$sub($len(%album%),$sub( $strstr(%album%,'[Cd'),1))),%album%)\\%track% - %title% example: if you have a double album (cd1 and cd2), artsit name 'Jhonny', album name 'Best of', year '2008' the result of this format string will be ... / J / Jhonny / [2008] Best of / [Cd1] / %track% - %title%.mp3 for the Cd1 songs ... / J / Jhonny / [2008] Best of / [Cd2] / %track% - %title%.mp3 for the Cd1 songs
>
> structure:
> ...\FirstLetter or #\Artist[Year] Album[Cd#]\TrackNumber - Title.mp3
>
> 1. as you can see the first folder name is the first letter of the artist (if the first letter is a number, the first folder name will be '#' )
> 2. second folder name is the name of the artist (N.B.: if the name of artist begins whit 'The ' like 'The Woats', in the folder name doesn't compare 'The ' so the result will be 'Woats'
> 3. third folder is the album and if the tag 'year' is not empty it is put at the beginning of this name inside square braket
> 4. fourth folder is optional, in other words if the album has more than one cd it will be divided into subfolders
> 5. at last, all file will be renamed putting the track number and then the title
>
> I use this format string by many years (recently modified) and i think it is very usefull
> N.B. in the album name the 'Cd#' must be inside square bracket: example album='Best of [Cd1]'
format string for **various artist album** (compilations) (replace the leading '...' with your music folder):
> ...\[$if($grtr($strstr(%album%,'-'),0),$left(%album%,$sub( $strstr(%album%,'-'),1))\,)][$if($grtr($strstr($right(%album%,$sub( $len(%album%),$strstr(%album%,'-'))),'-'),0),$left($right(%album%,$sub($len(%album%), $strstr(%album%,'-'))),$sub($strstr($right(%album%,$sub($len(%album%), $strstr(%album%,'-'))),'-'),1))\,)]$if($grtr($strstr(%album%,'[Cd'),0),$left(%album%, $sub($strstr(%album%,'[Cd'),2))['['%year%']']\$right(%album%,$sub($len(%album%), $sub($strstr(%album%,'[Cd'),1))),%album%['['%year%']'])\\%track% - %artist% - %title%
>
> structure:
> ...\Album [Year][Cd#] description\TackNumber - Artist - Title.mp3
>
> - first folder is the name of album followed by the year (if not null)
> - second folder is optional, in other words if the album has more than one cd it will be divided into subfolders
> - at last, all file will be renamed putting the track number, the artist and then the title
>
> [\*]N.B. Additional function: i found many compilation that has the same name and change only the volume; example 'Mimy Compilation Vol.1' 'Mimy Compilation Vol.2' .....
> To put all of them in the same folder you have to separate the compilation name from the 'volume' with the minus char
> example: 'Mimy Compilation-Vol.1' 'Mimy Compilation-Vol.2' .....
> doing so my format string will create one main folder for the album name 'Mimy Compilation' and inside this folder you will find all the volume
> result:
> 'Mimy Compilation-Vol.1' -\> ... \ Mimy Compilation \ Vol.1 [Year][Cd#] description\TackNumber - Artist - Title.mp3
> 'Mimy Compilation-Vol.2' -\> ... \ Mimy Compilation \ Vol.2 [Year][Cd#] description\TackNumber - Artist - Title.mp3
I have also a lot of 'Actions' to automatically format the album (expecially for the [Cd#] compatibility of Tag-Filename conversion)
using also this i never hand write the tags, never...i download then from 'freedb' and apply action; finally I convert Tag-Filename and i have a lot of music ordered very well 
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### Author:  [@abenitop](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/abenitop)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2008, 9:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-filename-formatting/7003/2 "2008-07-28T21:20:39Z")
Hi degrot.
Thanks for your scripts, there been very helpful to me.
Could you please let me use your actions scripts ??
Thanks again.
A.