# Editing a file while open in another music player permanently blocks you from saving tags

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/editing-a-file-while-open-in-another-music-player-permanently-blocks-you-from-saving-tags/69344
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 7, 2025, 7:42pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/editing-a-file-while-open-in-another-music-player-permanently-blocks-you-from-saving-tags/69344 "2025-08-07T19:42:24Z")
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### Author: ![mightyc](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/c77e96/32.png) [@mightyc](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mightyc)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2025, 7:42pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/editing-a-file-while-open-in-another-music-player-permanently-blocks-you-from-saving-tags/69344/1 "2025-08-07T19:42:24Z")

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When I try to edit a file that’s opened in another player, it permanently gives me this error, no matter if I close the app afterwards, no matter if I restart the app or computer itself, I just keep getting this same error when I want to edit the tags of the file, the only workaround I found is to make a duplicate copy of the same file and edit the duplicate instead.

 ![image](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/3X/b/c/bc6e611e8d361a55176d4c28b7a0dc5a03d1f528.png)

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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 7, 2025, 7:53pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/editing-a-file-while-open-in-another-music-player-permanently-blocks-you-from-saving-tags/69344/2 "2025-08-07T19:53:39Z")

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> [@mightyc](#):
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> no matter if I close the app afterwards

Which app are you referring to?  
In general: it is always a bad idea to access a file with more than 1 program at the same time.  
The block, BTW, is issued by the OS - MP3tag cannot do anything about it.

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### Author: ![mightyc](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/c77e96/32.png) [@mightyc](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mightyc)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2025, 9:39pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/editing-a-file-while-open-in-another-music-player-permanently-blocks-you-from-saving-tags/69344/3 "2025-08-16T21:39:23Z")

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I think(?) I figured out what was possibly wrong with being unable to edit some songs and I believe it has something to do with the lastfm scrobbler I have installed, because I edit the file just fine when I close that as well, not to mention some times WMP itself also doesn’t close properly and has to end tasks manually from task manager

thanks for trying to help me out I appappreciate it

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### Author: ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2025, 9:39pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/editing-a-file-while-open-in-another-music-player-permanently-blocks-you-from-saving-tags/69344/4 "2025-09-15T21:39:44Z")

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