# All tags gone after playing with WMP - what happened?
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/all-tags-gone-after-playing-with-wmp-what-happened/10313
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [April 19, 2010, 8:32am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/all-tags-gone-after-playing-with-wmp-what-happened/10313 "2010-04-19T08:32:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@pingo](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/pingo)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2010, 8:32am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/all-tags-gone-after-playing-with-wmp-what-happened/10313/1 "2010-04-19T08:32:20Z")
Hi all,
it's happened several times now that I played a song directly from within MP3Tag (with Windows Media Player) and afterwards the file I played had a new changed date and ALL the tags of the file were gone. ☹ I am not even sure if that had anything to do with playing the file, but as far as I can see that's the only thing all the files with erased tags had in common. How could that be? Is there a setting anywhere (in MP3Tag or maybe in Windows Media Player) that resets all the information? But why should the file get a new changed date only when it has been played and nothing else? Afterwards I had to enter the tags all over again. What can I do to prevent this from happening in the future? (Except, of course, by no longer playing the files directly from within MP3Tag, but sometimes I need to do that to check the length of a certain file). Any help welcome.
Thanks and regards
Pingo
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### Author:  [@mjcm](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mjcm)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2010, 8:37am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/all-tags-gone-after-playing-with-wmp-what-happened/10313/2 "2010-04-19T08:37:18Z")
Read this post and the answers of course 😉
["Deleted" info keeps coming back](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/10306/1)
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### Author:  [@pingo](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/pingo)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2010, 3:32pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/all-tags-gone-after-playing-with-wmp-what-happened/10313/3 "2010-04-21T15:32:02Z")
Okay, did just that and updated the watched folders in WMP. Let's see if that keeps tags from disappearing in the future. Thanks, Mike\_nl
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:22pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/all-tags-gone-after-playing-with-wmp-what-happened/10313/4 "2026-02-09T12:22:19Z")