This has come up before, but not like I'm experiencing it. I only use MP3tag for files, so everything in my drives were tagged from Discogs through this program. Today, I found that every single one of my 100,000+ files are showing the "ERROR ID3V2.3 header parse error(ID3v1 id3v2.3) ERROR BAD MP3…

I figured it out. I'll occasionally dump files into Mixmeister for sound testing and that program was writing 'popularity' and 'key' into the tags, causing them to corrupt. I tested with a single clean file, turned off the 'iTunes Update' option and the bad ID3s are no longer corrupting.

[image] brandon210: 'm on v3.28 Windows Current version is 3.28b [image] Mp3tag Development Build Status Development Date: 2025-01-27 Version: 3.28b Status: Beta warning Download: 64-bit mp3tagv328b-x64-setup.exe 32-bit mp3tagv328bsetup.exe 3.28b (2025-0…

Odd, I specifically checked for an update before posting and it came back that I was on the newest version. Installed the new version and the issue remains.

Could you please check such a song with the tools mentioned here: [image] Hints for asking Support Requests Support If you need support using Mp3tag, you can help the community members that are about to support you in finding a solution or workaround to your pr…

Here's a file as referenced in MP3tag: [image] MP3 Diags shows this error: [image] dbPoweramp and other programs have no issue reading this tag: [image] **Going through my files, it looks like there are only a certain group of files affected from maybe December 2024, around the time I would …

Could you please tell us how you have created this affected mp3? Did you converted them from CD? From FLAC? What software did you use? Or do you have downloaded this affected mp3? Which source?

[image] brandon210: Was this an issue with 3.28 that 3.28b has resolved? Doesn't the message pop up in 3.28b? If the files are from [image] brandon210: December 2024 I doubt that [image] brandon210: Something happened with the program from yesterday to today but that actually…

Mp3tag only shows 5 tags with content (ALBUM, ARTIST, GENRE, TITLE, YEAR) for this example track. The screenshot from dbPoweramp shows many more like TRACK, ALBUMARTISTSORT, CATALOG, COUNTRY... I don't know if dbPoweramp read this values as embedded values directly from the track or from another s…

[image] LyricsLover: Mp3tag only shows 5 tags with content (ALBUM, ARTIST, GENRE, TITLE, YEAR) for this example track. The screenshot from dbPoweramp shows many more like TRACK, ALBUMARTISTSORT, CATALOG, COUNTRY... I don't know if dbPoweramp read this values as embedded values directly from th…

[image] ohrenkino: [image] brandon210: Was this an issue with 3.28 that 3.28b has resolved? Doesn't the message pop up in 3.28b? No, it does not. I didn't know that version was out until it was posted here. It can't be the embedded picture, because as I said, any file I coded before …

[image] brandon210: So I've just got a long few days of retagging 1,000 files. Without knowing where your problems come from and whether they will reappear?

ERROR ID3V2.3 header parse error

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ohrenkino January 28, 2025, 6:43pm 2

Current version is 3.28b

Perhaps an update cures it.