Following the link to the Microsoft support page should have redirected you to the one of your local language.
Anyway.
Check
File>Options>Mpeg
What kind of tags you read, write and delete.
And check if you have APE tags in the files.
APE tags have priority over V2.3 which has priority over V1 tags.
So it could be that you system shows APE tags but they to not get updated... Something like that.
Went to File>Options>Mpeg
APE was not checked under either Read or Write, so I checked both those boxes.
(Under File>Options>Ape, Mpc ... all boxes were already checked.)
Made no difference.
UPDATE: Problem Solved!
I noticed the toolbar icon for a floppy disk ("Daddy, what's a floppy disk?") at the very left, which said "Save" when I hovered over it.
Changed a tag and clicked that icon.
Popup appeared, saying "Saved tag in 1 of 1 files."
It was updated.
Tried editing the titles of two tracks, one after the other, and then hit Save.
Only the second track was updated - moving from one to to the next, the change to the first was not saved.
I prefer the older behavior, where moving from one track to the next saves the change to the track just left, so I went exploring in File>Options and found, under File>Options>Tags, the first checkbox, "Save tags when using arrow keys/single mouse click."
That was unchecked, so I checked it. (When was this default changed?)
Tag editing behavior back the way I'm used to.
Now my only, much less important, gripe is that as I use an alphabetcal heirarchy of folders for my music, I set the root of my heirarchy, which has four subfolders (A-G, H-M, N-S, and T-Z), as my starting folder.
On startup, the program used to show those four folders when I hit the Change Directory button, so I could then navigate to where I want to go.
I set it the same way as always, but hitting Change Directory now comes up at the top of my Desktop heirarchy, like Explorer, so setting a starting directory does nothing more than show that folder as highlighted when I scroll down to it. (Checking "subdirectories" on that page makes the program display all tracks in the whole heirarchy on start-up, which is horrible.)
I also liked the fact that once I had chosen an artist's folder and one of that artist's albums, hitting Change directory brought up the list where I already was, so I could go up one level and see the other albums by that artist. Now it always takes me back to the root of the Desktop heirarchy.
How do I restore those older behaviors?
PS Should I make this question a new thread?
What have you configured in File->Options->Directories?
Unless you configure a favourite directory and activate "Start from this directory" MP3Tag shows your last dircetory on a new startup.
In "Favourite Directory" you can define, where MP3Tag should start.
On the page File>Options>Directories I set the folder E:\Phil's Music Index, the root of my music folder tree, as my Favorite Directory and checked the box "start from this directory"
All that does when I click Change Directory is highlight that folder, but not focus on it. The directory Browser still opens up at the top of the list, above Desktop.
I still have to scroll all the way down through all the Libraries, other drives, and through drive E:'s other folders until I get to it, where it's highlighted.
It used to come up on that folder when I clicked Change Directory.
I tried checking the "subdirectories" box, both on the Options page and within the Browser window, which proceeded to catalog and list every track in my library, all intermixed, which is totally useless.
How do I get back to the prior behavior of opening focused on my Favorite Directory, so all I have to do is click on it to see the next level of folders?
Nor does the directory Browser remember what directory I was in either during a session or on the next startup - it just goes back to the top of the list above Desktop every time.
It's not a matter of not being able to change the configuration through those dialogs, since I was able to use them change the behavior back to updating a track's tags when I move to another.
On the page File>Options>Directories I set the folder E:\Phil's Music Index, the root of my music folder tree, as my Favorite Directory and checked the box "start from this directory"
All that does when I click Change Directory is highlight that folder, but not focus on it. The directory Browser still opens up at the top of the list, above Desktop.
I still have to scroll all the way down through all the Libraries, other drives, and through drive E:'s other folders until I get to it, where it's highlighted.
It used to come up on that folder when I clicked Change Directory.
I tried checking the "subdirectories" box, both on the Options page and within the Browser window, either of which proceeded to catalog and list every track in my library, all intermixed, which is totally useless.
How do I get back to the prior behavior of opening focused on my Favorite Directory, so all I have to do is click on it to see the next level of folders?
Nor does the directory Browser focus on whatever directory I was in either during a session or on the next startup - it just goes back to the top of the list above Desktop every time.
It's not a matter of not being able to change the configuration through those dialogs, since I was able to use them change the behavior back to updating a track's tags when I move to another.
PS Just updated to version 2.65a, which had no effect on this problem.
I think that this not a problem of MP3tag as the window you see is an explorer window.
You have to set the folder options in Windows Explorer in the General tab folder and there in the section "Navigation" to
x Show all folders
x Expand to current folder.
(My translations ... could be that they do not hit the correct wording).
I'm not talking about Explorer's behavior but that of the directory browser brought up inside Mp3Tag when you hit the "Change Directory" button on its toolbar. I was likening its behaviour to Explorer, not saying I was getting a real Explorer window.
But I tried what you suggested in Explorer.
No difference in Mp3Tag's behavior.
Oh, so apparently the behaviour is different depending on the localization ...
If I open a directory browser in Mp3tag with the explorer settings
x Show all folders
then the browsing starts at "Computer".
With the settings
x Show all folders
x Expand to current folder
the browsing starts in the current folder ...
So the setting of the Windows Explorer do influence the Mp3tag browser window at least in my version.
Just double-checked: my settings are the same as yours, with both boxes checked, but the browsing starts not even at Computer but above that at Desktop, above the Libraries entry.
I'll try rebooting my computer to see if it makes any difference in Mp3Tag, but I did learn one useful thing from this - I hate Explorer's always opening a new window when I click on a folder in the right-hand window, and have gotten in the habit of using the drop-down lists from the address bar to avoid that. By selecting to open all folders in the same window, I avoided that problem - and it took effect immediately in Explorer.
Perhaps we come back to the
File>Options>Directory
settings:
I've got:
x Sub-directories
Default folder
These settings lead to the behaviour that I described.
Curiouser and Couriouser
I have a 32 bit Win 7 Pro laptop (upgraded from XP) and a 64 bit Win 7 Pro desktop.
Both are running version 2.65 of Mp3tag, which is a 32 bit program, and is thus run from the "Program Files (x86)" folder on the 64 bit machine.
The 32 bit machine's copy of Mp3Tag, which is configured the same as the 64 bit machine's copy, acts the way I was used to Mp3tag behaving in the past: clicking the Change Directory button brings up Mp3tag's file browser focused on my favorited folder, expanded to show its subfolders.
The 64 bit machine's copy gives the annoying behaviour of requiring me to scroll forever to get to the highlighted favorited folder.
I'm stumped, but it appears to be something about how 64 bit Win 7 treats 32 bit programs.
No. it is not.
I have a 32 Bit Windows 7, a 64 Bit Windows 7 and a 64 Bit Windows 8 and all behave the same with directories in mp3tag..
If I start MP3tag it opens my defined favourite directory and starts reading the mp3-files inside.
If I want to change to another directory the folder browsing window has its focus on this favourite directory.
If I have changed to another directory and want to change the directory again, the focus is on the current directory.
Only if the favourite directory or the current directory do not exist anymore, mp3tag sets the focus on the program files folder of mp3tag.
And only if i don't activate in the Windows-Explorer settings, that it should unfold to the current folder in the left panel My Computer is highlighted but the focus is still on the current folder, which you can see in the right panel if there are subfolders in this current folders, which are shown.
I've already done that. On my 64 bit machine, it made no difference to how Mp3tag behaves.