# Compare 2 different files

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/compare-2-different-files/58161
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 9, 2022, 7:51am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/compare-2-different-files/58161 "2022-08-09T07:51:15Z")
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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: [August 9, 2022, 8:16am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/compare-2-different-files/58161/2 "2022-08-09T08:16:14Z")

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MP3tag does not compare the tag content of 2 different files.  
MP3tag does not (really) look at the audio/video part of a file.

> [@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 …

Shows links to tools that also look at the audio part. Perhaps you find something there.

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