# Can't change album title permanently in files on network drive
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cant-change-album-title-permanently-in-files-on-network-drive/70710
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [February 16, 2026, 4:30pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cant-change-album-title-permanently-in-files-on-network-drive/70710 "2026-02-16T16:30:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@samuryno](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/samuryno)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2026, 4:30pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cant-change-album-title-permanently-in-files-on-network-drive/70710/1 "2026-02-16T16:30:40Z")
I’m trying to change album titles to sort them by order of release and add year released, but the changes are not being kept. I’ll make all the changes and save them as I go, but if I restart mp3tag they disappear. Or if I load them into Bumblebee they disappear. WMP is not active. I’ve turned off auto-tagging, I think. I blocked MP3tag from accessing the network. The files are not set to read-only when I save. They still revert.
What am I doing wrong?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2026, 4:32pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cant-change-album-title-permanently-in-files-on-network-drive/70710/2 "2026-02-16T16:32:31Z")
What kind of files are these? FLAC? MP3?
If MP3: do you have APE tags in the files?
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### Author:  [@samuryno](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/samuryno)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2026, 4:34pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cant-change-album-title-permanently-in-files-on-network-drive/70710/3 "2026-02-16T16:34:45Z")
Sorry, they are all FLAC files.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2026, 4:36pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cant-change-album-title-permanently-in-files-on-network-drive/70710/4 "2026-02-16T16:36:08Z")
please show us a screenshot of the extended tags dialogue of a single file.
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### Author:  [@samuryno](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/samuryno)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2026, 4:53pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cant-change-album-title-permanently-in-files-on-network-drive/70710/5 "2026-02-16T16:53:58Z")
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2026, 4:57pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cant-change-album-title-permanently-in-files-on-network-drive/70710/6 "2026-02-16T16:57:38Z")
To me it looks like the data is kept and the data does not disappear ...
So is it the player that does not show the data?
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### Author:  [@samuryno](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/samuryno)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2026, 5:01pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cant-change-album-title-permanently-in-files-on-network-drive/70710/7 "2026-02-16T17:01:37Z")
Here it is with the changes reapplied
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2026, 5:05pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cant-change-album-title-permanently-in-files-on-network-drive/70710/8 "2026-02-16T17:05:11Z")
I still don't get it: is this the way you want it to be?
Do you get any error messages?
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### Author:  [@samuryno](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/samuryno)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2026, 5:05pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cant-change-album-title-permanently-in-files-on-network-drive/70710/9 "2026-02-16T17:05:56Z")
This is the way I want it to be. There are no errors. It’s just that if I close MP3tag and reopen it, it switches back to the first screenshot.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2026, 5:18pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cant-change-album-title-permanently-in-files-on-network-drive/70710/10 "2026-02-16T17:18:25Z")
I see that the file apparently resides on a network drive.
What happens if you copy that file to your local machine and modify it there?
Do the modifcations stick?
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### Author:  [@samuryno](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/samuryno)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2026, 5:35pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cant-change-album-title-permanently-in-files-on-network-drive/70710/11 "2026-02-16T17:35:27Z")
I was hoping I wouldn’t have to do that.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2026, 5:57pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cant-change-album-title-permanently-in-files-on-network-drive/70710/12 "2026-02-16T17:57:53Z")
If it works after the transfer it would be worthwhile to investigate why the NAS software refuses to save changes.
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### Author:  [@samuryno](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/samuryno)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2026, 6:12pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cant-change-album-title-permanently-in-files-on-network-drive/70710/13 "2026-02-16T18:12:50Z")
It worked on the local drive, but when I copied it to the network drive it reverted. So I set it to read-only and copied it, and that seems to have worked.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2026, 6:16pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cant-change-album-title-permanently-in-files-on-network-drive/70710/14 "2026-02-16T18:16:23Z")
I would still check why the network drive does not allow changes. I think that this behaviour is not the preferred one.
Still, it has nothing to do with MP3tag.
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### Author:  [@samuryno](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/samuryno)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2026, 6:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cant-change-album-title-permanently-in-files-on-network-drive/70710/15 "2026-02-16T18:21:44Z")
Could it be that the network drive contains the Music folder? Should I change Windows’ Music folder to a different location?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2026, 6:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cant-change-album-title-permanently-in-files-on-network-drive/70710/16 "2026-02-16T18:23:05Z")
I honestly don't know what other processes interfere.
You may try that as only you have the local environment to test it.
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### Author:  [@samuryno](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/samuryno)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2026, 1:32am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cant-change-album-title-permanently-in-files-on-network-drive/70710/17 "2026-02-19T01:32:46Z")
Some research shows that it will not work to modify them on network drives for a variety of reasons. The network drive cannot be the Windows Music folder either.
The files need to be copied to a local disk, edited, then moved back to the network drive. Once again, if the network drive contains the Windows Music folder, it will overwrite the changes, even when Read Only is enabled. I’m not sure if Read Only needs to be checked when it’s not the Music folder, but that’s what I’m doing to be safe.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2026, 6:51am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cant-change-album-title-permanently-in-files-on-network-drive/70710/19 "2026-02-19T06:51:48Z")
Perhaps the behaviour changes if you add the folder as a drive with a drive letter.
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### Author:  [@confucius](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/confucius)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2026, 5:07pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cant-change-album-title-permanently-in-files-on-network-drive/70710/20 "2026-02-21T17:07:53Z")
Just my tuppence worth. I have my music on four different NAS units and I’ve never seen this behaviour. Doesn’t matter if it’s a mapped drive or not. A USB drive also has no problems.
So it ain’t MP3Tag.
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### Author:  [@samuryno](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/samuryno)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2026, 4:46pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cant-change-album-title-permanently-in-files-on-network-drive/70710/21 "2026-02-22T16:46:42Z")
I never thought it was only mp3tag. It turns out moving the folders from my local drive to the network drive with OneCommander somehow erases the changes as well. Copying with Explorer preserves the changes.
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