# All of my tags changed to \< keep \> for seemingly no reason

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/all-of-my-tags-changed-to-keep-for-seemingly-no-reason/44912>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [March 20, 2019, 1:37am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/all-of-my-tags-changed-to-keep-for-seemingly-no-reason/44912 "2019-03-20T01:37:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![ans0n](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/8e8cbc/32.png) [@ans0n](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ans0n)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2019, 1:37am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/all-of-my-tags-changed-to-keep-for-seemingly-no-reason/44912/1 "2019-03-20T01:37:25Z")

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i was attempting to use mp3tag to mitigate the fact that groove music only shows around 1/5 of my songs' tags, and then i went to the settings for the tag format and then switched it to ISO. i then briefly looked through the settings to see if i could find anything useful. i exited the settings, when i realized that certain texts on my screen were changed to korean, i thought it was just a small bug and i saved all my files back at the UTF-8 format. at that time, the tags showed \< keep \>, which is obviously a helpful feature in mp3tag to show you that you are keeping your current tags. after that, all of the text turned korean, for which i figured out where the language settings are and i changed everything back to english, which required a restart. i restarted with all of my 150 music files with albums, artists, whatever you may have the tag "\< keep \>". attempted to figure out a way to revert that but to no avail. looked at file recovery options as well, i really do not want to spend 2 hours changing every single tag back as my songs were fully tagged, including the albums, artists, album artists, track number, year-

any help? evidence down below v

_please don't judge my depressing music taste_

 ![image](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/d/d4334624559e83df345034722ea88a76101b92c5.png)

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**Author:** ![Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/florian/32/5759_2.png) [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2019, 8:24am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/all-of-my-tags-changed-to-keep-for-seemingly-no-reason/44912/2 "2019-03-20T08:24:52Z")

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I'm not sure if I understand 100% what happened, but it seems that you've used `< keep >` (which usually preserves the existing value when used in the Tag Panel) with Korean language settings (which uses `< 유지하기 >` for that).

It seems that you've overwritten the tags of the files during that course and I currently see no way of resurrecting the metadata, except from a backup.

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**Author:** ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2026, 12:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/all-of-my-tags-changed-to-keep-for-seemingly-no-reason/44912/3 "2026-02-09T12:27:59Z")

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