# Edited tags appear only within the MP3Tag app
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/edited-tags-appear-only-within-the-mp3tag-app/56768
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 22, 2022, 11:18pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/edited-tags-appear-only-within-the-mp3tag-app/56768 "2022-03-22T23:18:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@picaro](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/picaro)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2022, 11:18pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/edited-tags-appear-only-within-the-mp3tag-app/56768/1 "2022-03-22T23:18:58Z")
When I edit tags within the app, everything looks fine:
But when I follow this instruction:
The result in a Windows 11 folder looks like this:
I suspect I'm missing something really basic, but I can't figure this out.
Thank you for your help!
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2022, 6:56am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/edited-tags-appear-only-within-the-mp3tag-app/56768/2 "2022-03-23T06:56:05Z")
In the old days the WIndows Explorer could not cope with ID3V2.4 tags - so which tag version do these files have?
If you are not sure, then please show us the screendump of the extended tags dialogue (Alt-T) of a single file.
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### Author:  [@poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/poster)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2022, 10:38am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/edited-tags-appear-only-within-the-mp3tag-app/56768/3 "2022-03-23T10:38:15Z")
> [@ohrenkino](#):
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> In the old days
Those old days are long gone and haven't been revitalized for Windows 11 either.
> [@Kann Windows 10 endlich id3v2.4 Tags lesen?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/kann-windows-10-endlich-id3v2-4-tags-lesen/19221):
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> In einem [Microsoft-Forum](https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-files/id3-tag-24-support-in-windows-10-explorer-windows/c9c5caf0-93c9-4b34-9152-fff5d870d426) las ich die unbestätigte Meldung, dass das Windows 10 Creators Update (v1703) angeblich endlich id3v2.4 Tags lesen könne. (Ich meine damit nicht die ebenfalls erwähnte AudioShell-Erweiterung, sondern eine automatisch vorhandene Variante). Das wird aber weder offiziell bestätigt noch steht da was über die Möglichkeiten auch id3v2.4 Tags im Explorer (oder sonstigen Windows 10-Programmen) schreiben zu können. Weiss jemand von Euch mehr darüber? Kennt jemand eine offziell…
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### Author:  [@picaro](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/picaro)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2022, 12:01am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/edited-tags-appear-only-within-the-mp3tag-app/56768/4 "2022-03-24T00:01:11Z")
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### Author:  [@MotleyG](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/MotleyG)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2022, 3:54am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/edited-tags-appear-only-within-the-mp3tag-app/56768/5 "2022-03-24T03:54:49Z")
You have both id3v1 and id3v2 tags. There are plenty of threads about this, you need to decide if you really need v1 at this point. I doubt it. I would get rid of them and then your other issues should be resolved.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2022, 7:18am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/edited-tags-appear-only-within-the-mp3tag-app/56768/6 "2022-03-24T07:18:44Z")
OK, so no V2.4 tags. Good.
So far everything looks ok in respect to the tags.
But as the WE does not read them I would now check the files for integrity:
> [@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 …
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### Author:  [@picaro](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/picaro)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2022, 7:52pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/edited-tags-appear-only-within-the-mp3tag-app/56768/7 "2022-03-25T19:52:55Z")
Thank you. This sounds promising but I'm getting in over my head. The only threads I can find on the subject are people complaining that it is not done automatically. I am willing to do it manually but am clueless as to how to proceed. Thank you.
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### Author:  [@picaro](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/picaro)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2022, 10:00pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/edited-tags-appear-only-within-the-mp3tag-app/56768/8 "2022-03-25T22:00:34Z")
Okay - I found this:
I did this:
Now the extended tags dialog looks like this:
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2022, 10:02pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/edited-tags-appear-only-within-the-mp3tag-app/56768/9 "2022-03-25T22:02:51Z")
Look at the dialogue title: it shows a bad tag header.
So now the only thing that might help is to check the files for integrity.
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### Author:  [@picaro](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/picaro)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2022, 10:15pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/edited-tags-appear-only-within-the-mp3tag-app/56768/10 "2022-03-25T22:15:23Z")
Thank you, ohrenkino.
I'll give it a shot.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:29pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/edited-tags-appear-only-within-the-mp3tag-app/56768/11 "2026-02-09T12:29:42Z")