# Can't write ID3v1 only
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cant-write-id3v1-only/5988
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [December 30, 2007, 4:49pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cant-write-id3v1-only/5988 "2007-12-30T16:49:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@spaarks](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/spaarks)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2007, 4:49pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cant-write-id3v1-only/5988/1 "2007-12-30T16:49:23Z")
My MP3 HiFi (Panasonic) only recognises ID3v1 alone (not if also ID3v2).
So I want to change my collection to ID3v1 only, deleting ID3v2 and APE tags.
I have mp3 tag settings :
Read ID3v1, ID3v2, APE
Write ID3v1
Remove ID3v2, APE
With these settings cannot change tag.
To change tag I have to enable Write ID3v2. But that writes an ID3v2 tag.
What's going on here?
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2007, 8:55pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cant-write-id3v1-only/5988/2 "2007-12-30T20:55:15Z")
You probably have to remove ID3v2 and APEv2 tags first or just disable reading of them.
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### Author:  [@spaarks](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/spaarks)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2007, 12:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cant-write-id3v1-only/5988/3 "2007-12-31T12:28:11Z")
Thanks.
Yes I've managed to do it in two passes. First writing both ID3v1 and ID3v2, then remove the ID3v2 tag. At least I think I have - I've thought myself into a state of confusion over this so I'm going to leave it for a few days!
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### Author:  [@Hubird](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Hubird)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2008, 12:34am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cant-write-id3v1-only/5988/4 "2008-01-01T00:34:42Z")
I ran into the problem of not being able to write ID3v2 tags because APE tags were present too, and if it was not for this post I may still be wondering hat was going wrong. I find mp3tag is too quick to report that operations have successfully completed when in fact they have not (similar problem with the leading zeros on WMA files). If is obviously a known issue so can't something be done about it (If nothing else a message thats says remove APE tags first).
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2008, 9:21am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cant-write-id3v1-only/5988/5 "2008-01-01T09:21:53Z")
> [@Hubird](#):
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> I ran into the problem of not being able to write ID3v2 tags because APE tags were present too
I assume that ID3v2 tags were written correctly but you had reading of APEv2 tags enabled.
Mp3tag reads tags in this priority: APEv2 \> ID3v2 \> ID3v1, so please just disable reading of APEv2 tags if you don't use it.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cant-write-id3v1-only/5988/6 "2026-02-09T12:20:41Z")