# Can MP3tag recognise MP3 V0, MP3 V2, etc...?
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/can-mp3tag-recognise-mp3-v0-mp3-v2-etc/12145
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [June 12, 2011, 7:14pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/can-mp3tag-recognise-mp3-v0-mp3-v2-etc/12145 "2011-06-12T19:14:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@sigrun](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/sigrun)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2011, 7:14pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/can-mp3tag-recognise-mp3-v0-mp3-v2-etc/12145/1 "2011-06-12T19:14:39Z")
Foobar seems to be able to tell what _MP3_'s are _V0_, _V2_, etc, I was wondering is there a way for MP3tag to do this? Rather than just recognising an _MP3_ as _VBR_.
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### Author:  [@garym](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/garym)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2011, 9:48am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/can-mp3tag-recognise-mp3-v0-mp3-v2-etc/12145/2 "2011-06-13T09:48:48Z")
not sure, but you can add a custom column with this as value:
%\_bitrate% kb/s $left(%\_vbr%,1)
this will show the average bitrate and also put a C or V to the right to indicate VBR or CBR.
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### Author:  [@sigrun](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/sigrun)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2011, 8:52pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/can-mp3tag-recognise-mp3-v0-mp3-v2-etc/12145/3 "2011-06-13T20:52:13Z")
Yea, I have a column set like that. There must be a way to tell what VBR quality was used...
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2011, 3:50pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/can-mp3tag-recognise-mp3-v0-mp3-v2-etc/12145/4 "2011-06-14T15:50:04Z")
No, it's not possible in Mp3tag.
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### Author:  [@garym](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/garym)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2011, 3:57pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/can-mp3tag-recognise-mp3-v0-mp3-v2-etc/12145/5 "2011-06-14T15:57:47Z")
To the OP...Why do you really need this given that you already have the average bitrate and all the V0, V1, etc. tells you is what the target bit rate happened to be when encoded...
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### Author:  [@sigrun](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/sigrun)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2011, 5:55pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/can-mp3tag-recognise-mp3-v0-mp3-v2-etc/12145/6 "2011-06-14T17:55:53Z")
> [@garym](#):
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> To the OP...Why do you really need this given that you already have the average bitrate and all the V0, V1, etc. tells you is what the target bit rate happened to be when encoded...
But does it? Some V0 encoded albums I have are well below the target and range of the V0 setting, for example.
I don't know much about all this stuff. And I just wished to be able to see the exact quality I ripped some this stuff at.
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### Author:  [@VortX](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/VortX)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2011, 5:54am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/can-mp3tag-recognise-mp3-v0-mp3-v2-etc/12145/7 "2011-06-17T05:54:09Z")
I posted asking for the same issue some time ago
[/t/9014/1](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/9014/1)
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/can-mp3tag-recognise-mp3-v0-mp3-v2-etc/12145/8 "2026-02-09T12:23:10Z")