# Cancel reading files does not stop immediately

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cancel-reading-files-does-not-stop-immediately/48983
**Category:** Fixed Bugs
**Created:** [May 17, 2020, 3:41pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cancel-reading-files-does-not-stop-immediately/48983 "2020-05-17T15:41:28Z")
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### Author: ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2020, 6:17pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cancel-reading-files-does-not-stop-immediately/48983/5 "2020-05-17T18:17:08Z")

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> [@jamisan](#):
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> Sometimes the files are so corrupt they won't even play

Here is a thread with links to tools that may help to identify the reasons for trouble and even fix some of them:

> [@How to check files for errors?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-check-files-for-errors/44633):
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> It’s required and often helps to reduce support cycles to check files for errors before filing a bug report. Symptoms of erroneous files are often missing or wrong bitrate or length audible blips or skips tags seem to be sticky and cannot be removed There are some really good tools to check the files for errors, namely MP3 Diags — identifies many different issues in MP3 files Website: [http://mp3diags.sourceforge.net](http://mp3diags.sourceforge.net) Download: [MP3 Diags - Getting MP3 Diags](http://mp3diags.sourceforge.net/010_getting_the_program.html#binWindows) If the font size in MP3 Diags is …

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