# Error editing WMA tags

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/error-editing-wma-tags/1127
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [July 7, 2004, 5:56pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/error-editing-wma-tags/1127 "2004-07-07T17:56:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![martymcr](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@martymcr](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/martymcr)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2004, 5:56pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/error-editing-wma-tags/1127/1 "2004-07-07T17:56:45Z")

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I'm trying to tidy up my music library. Some are MP3's, a lot are WMA's

On some of my WMA's, when I try to edit the tag, I get the error

"File xxx could not be opened for writing"

The file is NOT read-only and I'm logged on to my machine with administrator permissions.

I've sent an example file to [support@mp3tag.de](mailto:support@mp3tag.de)

Any ideas on why this is happening?

Thanks

Martin

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### Author: ![Sebastian\_Mares](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/sebastian_mares/32/9285_2.png) [@Sebastian\_Mares](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Sebastian_Mares)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2004, 6:31pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/error-editing-wma-tags/1127/2 "2004-07-07T18:31:59Z")

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How exactly are you reorganizing?

This might help: [convert filename - tag error](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/1116/1)

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### Author: ![martymcr](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@martymcr](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/martymcr)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2004, 3:35am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/error-editing-wma-tags/1127/3 "2004-07-08T03:35:49Z")

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I'm just editing the tags directly in the list view of MP3Tag

I suspect the problem may have been corrupted tags - it only affected a few files, and I've removed most of them now as I couldn't get around the problem.

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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: [July 8, 2004, 1:18pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/error-editing-wma-tags/1127/4 "2004-07-08T13:18:13Z")

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Martin,

the file you've sent to me is totally broken. The Windows Media Audio SDK even refuses to open the file.

Best regards,  
~ Florian

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### Author: ![martymcr](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@martymcr](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/martymcr)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2004, 1:45pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/error-editing-wma-tags/1127/5 "2004-07-08T13:45:10Z")

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OK thanks for the confirmation - the delete button it is!!!

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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: [February 9, 2026, 12:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/error-editing-wma-tags/1127/6 "2026-02-09T12:19:13Z")

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