I'm having trouble tagging a specific album. I usually use this program (because it's the best there is) but with this album I've tried other programs and none of them are able to tag them. It's an album of .FLAC files but when I press "Save Tag" it says "This file cannot be opened for writing". I…

Just an FYI. In Win 10 I had the same issue with some m4b files and found that they were being synced to OneDrive (Don't remember setting that up). You can tell by the status column in Explorer.

I had the same problem tagging my MP3 files. I tried everything, including trying to remove read only status for files/directories...didn't work; couldn't remove. Then I remembered I had a similar problem with other files. The culprit for me was the windows 10 Windows Security. Under Virus & th…

I came across this thread after I encountered a similar problem with a single WAV file. I want to share my experience because in this case I believe the problem didn't have anything to do with Windows security, permissions, etc., but with the integrity of the file. I was tagging my WAV files collec…

See this thread on problematic wav files: [image] WAV files cannot be editted Support Hello - I've downloaded a lot of WAV files from qobuz, MP3TAG can't open the files for editing, can anyone help? thanks Peter

Well, I also experience the problem that the file could not be written... Read the entire thread, and played for quite some time checking rights and ownership. And nothing worked. Installed another MP3 tagger (Metatogger 6.0) and it has abolutely no problems with editting the tags. Tried MP3tag a…

[image] Frank-Bemelman: Conclusion, the program has a bug To issue a bug report, I think that your post lacks a number of vital pieces of information. What kind of files do you treat? MP3? Flac? Wav? Mp4? Have you run the unwilling files through tools that check the integrity like linked he…

Thank you, ok, did some checks following your instructions, and indeed some of the MP3 files had issues, although they played fine. And when they show up in MP3tag, most of them showing tags just fine, it is for a casual user not obvious there is something wrong with the file. I suppose when the sof…

I had a lot of tagging problems with old files sourced from various locations years ago (5 to 10 years). I have a feeling that some software used decades ago to rip audio were poorly written because it was generally very old files (audiobooks mostly). mp3Val was recommended to me and using it before…

Thinking that other folks may encounter this -- yet another variant on "locked for writing" that has NOTHING to do with mp3 file integrity, disallowed characters in a tag, or file permissions -- PATH LENGTH. I've encountered the dreaded "file locked" error multiple times. Following advice here: How…

In Windows security, find Ransomwear protection, and uncheck the box !!!!! So effing simple! Nanny OS

"File Cannot Be Opened For Writing"

Support

poster March 25, 2022, 9:06am 35

There may be other software or processes locking your files, sometimes only for a short time.