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June 15, 2026, 1:59pm
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red X on the left side of Filename for some of my song names.
By using one of the fixing tools:
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
Download: MP3 Diags - Getting MP3 Diags
If the font size in MP3 Diags is …
You can see the reason for the X error icon in the "Tag" column of that file in Mp3tag's File List.
I would not go about with too high hopes: in some cases the tools can repair the files but by far not in all.
The red X means that something is wrong with the files - perhaps even so wrong that they are damaged beyond repair.