Unknown Folders, an idots quest

Mornin' all. I have read through a raft of questions ref "unknown albums" and how its a tag issue, but I would like to ask if there is a way for a ZEN just to read the folder name for the album title or does it HAVE to read from the tag's the songs are holding?
I'm not overly concerned about song names
I could really do with an idiots giude to all of this as I can see people talking about tagging etc but I really do not know that much about MP's on MP3 players as opposed to video etc.
Thanks in advance guy's n gal's.
The Mutz..!

Hello MutzNutz, the Zen will read your music information from the tags, it has nothing to do with your folder it is placed in. Album arts, however, is a different story.
The tags are simple to use, the more essential ones are:
Title, artist, album and genre. To update these tags, edit them by right clicking on your music and then properties. An easier way would be to use the Creative Mediasource Organizer.
Hope this helps!?

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