# APE files problem **URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ape-files-problem/17672 **Category:** Support **Created:** [February 21, 2016, 8:06pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ape-files-problem/17672 "2016-02-21T20:06:44Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 12
### Author: ![Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/zerow/32/11379_2.png) [@Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zerow) #### Post date: [March 3, 2016, 7:46pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ape-files-problem/17672/12 "2016-03-03T19:46:50Z")
> [@zerow](#): > > What about other lossless formats? > [...] > Can someone say from his / hers experience that I can use some other losless format like M4A? In that sense that my ID3v2 tags won't [or at least shouldn't] be messed up [at least when using Mp3tag to change them]? > [...] Well Mr. zerow, I've tried out this M4A format and it seems to behave in Mp3tag similar as APE- you have to stop the file before changing a tag value in it. Which of course will make you loose a ton of time and completely disrupt my workflow; I mean your workflow But I've also tried out the WMA format in 9.2 lossless version. And it seems to works exatly [in terms of playing and metadata retaining] the same way as MP3 and FLAC. And also making an "encoding test loop" FLAC \> WAV \> WMA \> WAV resulted in showing two same audio waveforms in those two WAV files after loading them into a sound editor So all you need now is some hardcore Mp3tag users to confirm that usability of WMA's; the no tag-issues statement of some sort from them would probably put your mind at ease --- _[View the full topic](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ape-files-problem/17672)._