This is VERY puzzling and VERY problematic. Load a brand-new Deutsche Gramaphone album - purchased and downloaded their pristine MP3 files. For some reason the album files don't include the Composer tag. Open album in MP3Tag, add "J.S. Bach" (no quotes) as Composer. Save. MP3Tag still indicates orig…

Screenshots once files are modified to add Composer: [mp3tag03] [mp3tag04] These files were very badly modified by MP3Tag and no longer play properly - what is the solution? (If it's helpful at identifiying what is going on, the naming of these files includes Icelandic diacriticals in the perfo…

[image] twsf: These files were very badly modified by MP3Tag and no longer play properly - what is the solution? (If it's helpful at identifiying what is going on, the naming of these files includes Icelandic diacriticals in the performer's name) I have not seen this kind of mp3tag behaviour …

According to MP3Diag (see below), the source files are error-free - this seems to be an MP3Tag problem: [mp3tag05]

And here's the resulting mess after opening the files in Mp3Tag, and modifying just the Composer field in the first file (see first screen capture below), and modifying NOTHING in any of the other files (see second screen capture below). ALL of them seem to have been broken badly by MP3Tag. Please h…

Could you supply one of these files so that other people could have a look? What can also be seen is that you apparently write APE tags - MP3diags cannot really cope with APE tags. So could you also supply a screenshot of Options>Tags>Mpeg Here an MP3diags run of a file and its copy with and with…

Here are my Tag settings in MP3Tag: [mp3tag08] Please let me know if there is a setting to change so MP3Tag doesn't ruin my files. Thanks.

Please switch off writing APE tags and save the tags again and then see if that helps. If it does not then the request for a sample file is still valid.

OK, things are getting weirder. After reunzipping fresh copies of all the source files, and importing them into MP3Tag, the UNCHANGED files seem to have had lots of errors introduced by MP3Tag (example: track 3, first screen image below), while after I use MP3Tag to modify a file it looks and plays …

An MP3diags check of [image] twsf: fresh copies of all the source files would probably reveal more. Could you supply one of these fresh files?

Adding "Composer" changes file duration

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ohrenkino October 7, 2023, 3:12pm 3

I think that MP3tag is only the messenger that the files were corrupted prior to tagging.
Here are some links for tools to check the files: