why are files and titles different sometimes?

These are two completely different things. The file name is what you see in Windows Explorer. Titles are embedded inside the files as metadata. Mp3tag can help you rename your filenames or update your embedded tags. Which do you prefer?

Why should they be the same? They are two different things – file names reside in the directory, titles reside in the tags. You can name a file whatever you want. Back in the day when I burned MP3 CDs, and CDFS was limited to 8.3 filenames, my naming scheme was 2 digit track number + first 3 charac…

On some albums tracks don't correspond with their title or filename.

A screenshot and examples would be helpful here. Details are needed if you want more support.

[image] rvz1: On some albums tracks don't correspond with their title or filename. Then it is very likely that either the title or the filename is wrong. It would be up to you to research and find out which, and then correct it.

[image] rvz1: why are files and titles different sometimes? Perhaps because the filesystem has a number of invalid characters for filenames so that these could not be used for the filename? In general: there is no automatism to set the file property filename to equal the data in the metadata…

Once you didn't provide more info, I will try to help you with some possibilities: Filenames and Char Strings inside each music file are completely two different worlds, not even remotely related to. You can have the Metadata of a Metallica song music file with TITLE: Enter Sandman, ARTIST: Metal…

Files and titles are different

Support

LyricsLover October 20, 2026, 8:29pm 6

As @MotleyG wrote, please follow these instructions, including how to add screenshots:

Also, please tell us which of the following is the correct information:
a) The file names
or
b) The embedded metadata (TITLE? ALBUM? ARTIST? TRACK?)