I am running Windows 7 x64 and have never had an issue dragging and dropping audio files from the mp3tag filelist into the media player of my choice until I updated from v3.31a. All subsequent mp3tag releases including the latest v3.34 behave in the same way with the arrow indicating the drag operat…

[image] sut1: I am running Windows 7 oh, oh ... Have you tried to press Ctrl while d&d?

[image] sut1: until I updated from v3.31a There have been several changes to drag & drop since v3.32 according to the changelog: Mp3tag - the universal Tag Editor - History of changes Almost complete history of changes of the development of Mp3tag in…

Yes i have tried holding ctrl while dragging and dropping but makes no difference

Yes i am aware of the new MOVE/COPY protocol but it is not relevant to the issue i am having whilst dragging & dropping files to a media player. It is not a MOVE/COPY operation.

[image] sut1: It is not a MOVE/COPY operation Perhaps this sheds some more light on it: [image] Drag and drop file out of Mp3tag into ... Support Drag&Drop is an interaction between 2 programs. After a D&D action the receiving program gives a feedback o…

Thanks for the D&D breakdown. In light of that I presume "4 DROPEFFECT_LINK dropping creates a link" is what takes place when D&D'ing from Mp3tag to a media player and it is that function that no longer works for me since v3.31a. I have made no other system changes apart from the Mp3Tag update so I …

I just used MP3tag on W11 with the now "Windows Media Player Legacy" and d&d an mp4 file from MP3tag into the playlist section of the media player and it worked .. It is important that both applications have the same privileges. Applications running in an elevated state do not accept d&d from lower…

Thanks for your reply. I have no applications running in an elevated state. Am running Windows 7 SP1 so performing a similar function in W11 is maybe here nor there

I just started one of my most ancient PCs which still has a W7 installation and installed 3.34 in 32-bit. And I can drag&drop from MP3tag to the WIndows Media Player just like in the old days. So it does not seem to be a general phenomenon that d&d does not work.

I tried the 32-bit version to see if the results would be different to the 64-bit version but results were the same. I don't have Windows Media Player but I have tested Winamp, Wacup, MusicBee and VLC and none are accepting dropped files from Mp3tag unless i stick with v3.31a

Drag & drop to media player no longer working since v3.31a in Windows 7

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LyricsLover April 23, 2026, 9:33pm 3

There have been several changes to drag & drop since v3.32 according to the changelog:

including this one: