# Different Bitrate value between mp3tag and windows explorer

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/different-bitrate-value-between-mp3tag-and-windows-explorer/7254
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [September 28, 2008, 6:02am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/different-bitrate-value-between-mp3tag-and-windows-explorer/7254 "2008-09-28T06:02:17Z")
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### Author: ![Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/florian/32/5759_2.png) [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2020, 9:00am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/different-bitrate-value-between-mp3tag-and-windows-explorer/7254/5 "2020-10-11T09:00:19Z")

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See "MP3 Diags" from

> [@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 …

It'll most likely reveal the issue with that file.

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