# Can't edit certain fields in the grid \[SOLVED\]
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cant-edit-certain-fields-in-the-grid-solved/70930
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 22, 2026, 6:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cant-edit-certain-fields-in-the-grid-solved/70930 "2026-03-22T18:21:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@ccloud](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ccloud)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2026, 6:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cant-edit-certain-fields-in-the-grid-solved/70930/1 "2026-03-22T18:21:08Z")
Hi,
Long time user, first time poster. I’m running 3.33.1 on Windows 11.
For the last few months, I’ve been having this issue. Previously, I could click on most editable fields in the grid and edit directly there rather than in the tag panel. For example, I could edit the title and album, but I no longer can edit those. However, I can continue to edit artist, disc number, track, etc.
For the most part, I’m using ID3 v2.4 and all the source files are MP3. I run Python scripts that I wrote on all new files to clean up metadata and add cover art using the mutagen library. Then, I use Mp3Tag to make sure everything is correct before sending to MBZ Picard, LRCGet, and then into my Navidrome server. That workflow has worked well.
This isn’t the worst problem, but it occasionally annoying. I’ve learned to use some the Mp3Tab functions (e.g. cutleft) as a workaround, so that’s actually kinda great, but I’d like to know the root cause of this. Is this a change in the tool or something I’m doing? I can’t isolate any other factor that might cause this, such as the presence of APE or older tag schemes.
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2026, 6:30pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cant-edit-certain-fields-in-the-grid-solved/70930/2 "2026-03-22T18:30:19Z")
What does that mean you can't edit title and album?
Does that mean that the modification does not stick?
Can't get the fields in the file list into edit mode?
What does the extended tags dialogue look like for such file?
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### Author:  [@ccloud](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ccloud)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2026, 7:16pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cant-edit-certain-fields-in-the-grid-solved/70930/3 "2026-03-22T19:16:42Z")
If I click on a song title in the grid, it doesn’t turn into an editable field for title and album. Other fields, other than stuff that can’t be edited like path, will let me click the field in the grid and it becomes an editable value. But not those two. If I’m in an editable field and press Tab, which would normally take me to the next column, it will skip over song title and album name.
Here is a screengrab
As I said earlier, this was working a few months ago for me. I’ve reinstalled MP3Tag, but I haven’t tried to downgrade to an older version. I was hoping someone had an obvious solution.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2026, 7:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cant-edit-certain-fields-in-the-grid-solved/70930/4 "2026-03-22T19:23:11Z")
Could you check the column definition for these fields?
They should have the same variable in "Value" and "Field".
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### Author:  [@ccloud](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ccloud)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2026, 7:35pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cant-edit-certain-fields-in-the-grid-solved/70930/5 "2026-03-22T19:35:56Z")
There you go!
They had %title% and %album% for Value and nothing in Field. Those fields were missing the $meta\_sep(title,\\) and $meta\_sep(album,\\) for value. I must’ve been messing around with things at some point and messed those up.
When I put $meta\_sep back in for both fields, I am able to edit again.
Thank you!
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2026, 7:36pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cant-edit-certain-fields-in-the-grid-solved/70930/6 "2026-03-29T19:36:37Z")
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