# Using actions to move songs into artist folder

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/using-actions-to-move-songs-into-artist-folder/14215
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [December 11, 2012, 5:04am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/using-actions-to-move-songs-into-artist-folder/14215 "2012-12-11T05:04:59Z")
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### Author: ![nishyp](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/8baadc/32.png) [@nishyp](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/nishyp)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2012, 5:04am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/using-actions-to-move-songs-into-artist-folder/14215/1 "2012-12-11T05:04:59Z")

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Hi there I need some assistance with using actions to transfer my songs into their own folders.

I've been looking through the forums and saw I needed to use Actions so pretty much heres what I did

Format Value  
Field: \_DIRECTORY  
Format String: G:\Folder\%artist%

The problem is it moved all my songs into a single artists folder instead of making a folder for each artist, so I tried again, same thing.

Hopefully someone can assist me 🙂

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### Author: ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2012, 5:20am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/using-actions-to-move-songs-into-artist-folder/14215/2 "2012-12-11T05:20:08Z")

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Do not apply that action to \_directory but to \_filename.  
(The same result could be achieved with the converter TAG-Filename if you include path-names.)

If you format the \_filename you have to include the filename, though. So expand the formatstring:  
Format String: G:\Folder\%artist%$num(%track%,3) \_ %artist% \_ %title%  
(or whatever your preferred filename looks like)

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### Author: ![nishyp](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/8baadc/32.png) [@nishyp](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/nishyp)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2012, 7:34am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/using-actions-to-move-songs-into-artist-folder/14215/3 "2012-12-11T07:34:53Z")

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> [@ohrenkino](#):
>
> Do not apply that action to \_directory but to \_filename.  
> (The same result could be achieved with the converter TAG-Filename if you include path-names.)
> 
> If you format the \_filename you have to include the filename, though. So expand the formatstring:  
> Format String: G:\Folder\%artist%$num(%track%,3) \_ %artist% \_ %title%  
> (or whatever your preferred filename looks like)

Format Value  
Field: \_FILENAME  
Format String: G:\Folder\%artist%\%\_filename%

Thank you ohrenkino! Worked perfectly for me!