# Trying to rename/move singeltons into a singletons folder but Beets keeps creating album artist/album structures

**URL:** <https://discourse.beets.io/t/trying-to-rename-move-singeltons-into-a-singletons-folder-but-beets-keeps-creating-album-artist-album-structures/547>\
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**Created:** [November 29, 2018, 7:20pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/trying-to-rename-move-singeltons-into-a-singletons-folder-but-beets-keeps-creating-album-artist-album-structures/547 "2018-11-29T19:20:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![janpeeters](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.beets.io/janpeeters/32/182_2.png) [@janpeeters](https://discourse.beets.io/u/janpeeters)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2018, 7:20pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/trying-to-rename-move-singeltons-into-a-singletons-folder-but-beets-keeps-creating-album-artist-album-structures/547/1 "2018-11-29T19:20:50Z")

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Hi,

I have a folder with lots of MP3s that I want to rename/move into a singletons folder but Beets keeps creating album artist/album structures.

I use the

```
> beet import -s [foldername]

```

command and have the following path for singletons

```
singleton: 'Singles/%the{artist} - $title'

```

My config has the following line:

```
import:
    singletons: no

```

to not import them but still process them.  
What am I missing?

Thanks, Jan

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**Author:** ![adrian](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.beets.io/adrian/32/4_2.png) [@adrian](https://discourse.beets.io/u/adrian)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2018, 9:34pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/trying-to-rename-move-singeltons-into-a-singletons-folder-but-beets-keeps-creating-album-artist-album-structures/547/2 "2018-11-29T21:34:09Z")

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That configuration option is equivalent to _not_ providing the -s option on the command line. (But the CLI option overrides it.)

Any chance you can provide some verbose output from an example run (and before/after directory listings)?

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**Author:** ![janpeeters](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.beets.io/janpeeters/32/182_2.png) [@janpeeters](https://discourse.beets.io/u/janpeeters)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2018, 2:39pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/trying-to-rename-move-singeltons-into-a-singletons-folder-but-beets-keeps-creating-album-artist-album-structures/547/3 "2018-12-02T14:39:04Z")

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I think I’ve got this sorted. My singleton Path was too low in the hierarchy of paths.  
It’s now directly after ‘default’ and that seems to work.