# How do I remove the red X on the left side of Filename for some of my song names

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**Created:** [June 15, 2026, 1:59pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-do-i-remove-the-red-x-on-the-left-side-of-filename-for-some-of-my-song-names/71447 "2026-06-15T13:59:41Z")
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### Author: ![Cal](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/f1d935/32.png) [@Cal](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Cal)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2026, 1:59pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-do-i-remove-the-red-x-on-the-left-side-of-filename-for-some-of-my-song-names/71447/1 "2026-06-15T13:59:41Z")

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red X on the left side of Filename for some of my song names.

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### Author: ![LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/c6cbf5/32.png) [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2026, 2:11pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-do-i-remove-the-red-x-on-the-left-side-of-filename-for-some-of-my-song-names/71447/2 "2026-06-15T14:11:56Z")

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By using one of the fixing tools:

> [@How to check files for errors?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-check-files-for-errors/44633):
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> 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 …

You can see the reason for the X error icon in the "Tag" column of that file in Mp3tag's File List.

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### 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: [June 15, 2026, 4:58pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-do-i-remove-the-red-x-on-the-left-side-of-filename-for-some-of-my-song-names/71447/3 "2026-06-15T16:58:07Z")

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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.

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### Author: ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2026, 4:58pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-do-i-remove-the-red-x-on-the-left-side-of-filename-for-some-of-my-song-names/71447/4 "2026-06-22T16:58:10Z")

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