# Foobar2000 and Mp3tag present different metadata contents **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [October 8, 2019, 5:44pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/foobar2000-and-mp3tag-present-different-metadata-contents/46673 "2019-10-08T17:44:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![helil](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/helil/32/6883_2.png) [@helil](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/helil)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2019, 5:44pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/foobar2000-and-mp3tag-present-different-metadata-contents/46673/1 "2019-10-08T17:44:15Z")
Title. I get different values when reading metadata in mp3tag and Foobar2000. It's in one of my albums, first time I've come upon it, been using both programs for years and I can't find one value in the other. Thanks ---
**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:** [October 8, 2019, 5:45pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/foobar2000-and-mp3tag-present-different-metadata-contents/46673/2 "2019-10-08T17:45:48Z")
see which tag versions (APE, ID3) you read, write and delete. If you read APE tags but write only ID3 tags, then the tag versions get out of sync. ---
**Author:** ![helil](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/helil/32/6883_2.png) [@helil](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/helil)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2019, 5:52pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/foobar2000-and-mp3tag-present-different-metadata-contents/46673/3 "2019-10-08T17:52:47Z")
Everything is checked: Read, write, remove, in both "Mpeg" and "Ape, Mpc..." at the options menu ---
**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:** [October 8, 2019, 5:55pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/foobar2000-and-mp3tag-present-different-metadata-contents/46673/4 "2019-10-08T17:55:09Z")
APE should only be deleted - unless you use replaygain which is often written to APE tags. The APE, mpc section is only important for real APE files. ---
**Author:** ![helil](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/helil/32/6883_2.png) [@helil](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/helil)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2019, 5:59pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/foobar2000-and-mp3tag-present-different-metadata-contents/46673/5 "2019-10-08T17:59:23Z")
I just made this change and reprocessed the files in mp3tag but it didn't change the outcome. ---
**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:** [October 8, 2019, 6:02pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/foobar2000-and-mp3tag-present-different-metadata-contents/46673/6 "2019-10-08T18:02:05Z")
Are these files OK? Or could it be that they have stacked tags and one program reads other tags than the other? Here are some links to utilities: > [@How to check files for errors?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-check-files-for-errors/44633): > > It’s required and often helps to reduce support cycles to check files for errors before filing a bug report. Symptoms of erroneous files are often missing or wrong bitrate or length audible blips or skips tags seem to be sticky and cannot be removed There are some really good tools to check the files for errors, namely MP3 Diags — identifies many different issues in MP3 files Website: [http://mp3diags.sourceforge.net](http://mp3diags.sourceforge.net) Download: [MP3 Diags - Getting MP3 Diags](http://mp3diags.sourceforge.net/010_getting_the_program.html#binWindows) If the font size in MP3 Diags is … and even if foobar is one of them, I would use mp3diags in this case. ---
**Author:** ![helil](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/helil/32/6883_2.png) [@helil](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/helil)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2019, 6:14pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/foobar2000-and-mp3tag-present-different-metadata-contents/46673/7 "2019-10-08T18:14:49Z")
Mp3Diags did it for me, it had invalid tags all around, thank you very much! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2019, 6:14pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/foobar2000-and-mp3tag-present-different-metadata-contents/46673/8 "2019-11-07T18:14:50Z")
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