Hello! After updating to v3.33.1, when previously tagged files are updated and saved, the track rating is now also being overwritten and results in the rating being removed. If the original track rating was not modified it would be great if the original rating persists. Thanks for your help and thou…

[image] tagboy69: If the original track rating was not modified it would be great if the original rating persists. There is a new option in Options>Tags>Advanced to leave unmodified mp4 atoms as they are. Could you try that option and see if it helps?

Absolutely, thanks ohrenkino [001__2026-02-28 - Copy] [002__2026-02-28 - Copy]

Thanks for posting these. However these are from the Explorer window. If you could open the files in mp3tag, and with each file selected hit Alt-T to show the extended tags window. This will show what metadata exists from each file that mp3tag can see.

So it is the WIndows Explorer that does not show the rating?! (A screenshot from the extended tags dialogue and not the windows explorer would still be necessary as MP3tag can only modify tags but not the behaviour or third party programs.) Then it would be interesting to know how you enter ratin…

[image] ohrenkino: You should also check the options Ctrl-O > Tags > Advanced and the settings for Popularimeter (although I think that these settings only apply to ID3 fields and not mp4) Yes, those are irrelevant in this case, as they only apply to ID3v2.

Here are the before and after shots with Alt-T as requested. It updates the tags, but also now removes the rating in windows explorer after any field has been modified or it has been saved. This is new behavior. None of the previous releases have ever removed the rating [01-before - Copy] [02-af…

I would suggest that besides the lack of a RATING field there are virtually no other supporting tags. TITLE, GENRE, and YEAR are all that are embedded before and after. Windows may be storing this elsewhere (?) but I doubt it. Not sure what else to recommend here. Maybe @Florian has better insight …

[image] tagboy69: Here are the before and after shots with Alt-T To me, both screenshots show the same thing: there is no embedded data for a rating. And what isn't there can not be removed, I would say.

[image] MotleyG: Windows may be storing this elsewhere Yes, Windows Explorer is storing the rating in a Xtra atom (something similar to PRIV frames in ID3v2) that's not accessible to Mp3tag. [image] ohrenkino: And what isn't there can not be removed It would be possible that Mp3tag do…

I've tested this before I read your posting: Took one of my mp4-video-files (with metadata) Wrote stars in the rating field of windows explorer Loaded the file with Mp3Tag 3.3.4 beta2 Saved the file in Mp3tag Result: Rating stars in Explorer are gone Wrote stars again in Explorer …

I'm not sure if this will help: ExifTool v13.50 displays the Windows Explorer rating as WM/SharedUserRating . | | MicrosoftXtra (SubDirectory) --> | | - Tag 'Xtra' (45 bytes): | | 19df2: 00 00 00 2d 00 00 00 13 57 4d 2f 53 68 61 72 65 [...-....WM/Share] | | 19e02: 64 55 73 65 72 52 61 …

After v3.33.1 Update Rating is Removed

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MotleyG March 15, 2026, 1:17am 20

3.34-beta.4 is currently available for download with this option.