# How to find cause of !Bad Id3v2 errors

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-find-cause-of-bad-id3v2-errors/60437
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 20, 2023, 8:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-find-cause-of-bad-id3v2-errors/60437 "2023-03-20T20:24:42Z")
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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: [March 20, 2023, 8:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-find-cause-of-bad-id3v2-errors/60437/2 "2023-03-20T20:27:33Z")

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> [@SouthmeadExile](#):
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> Command line switch?

No swtich.  
You would have to resort to the creating program that you use before you load the files into MP3tag.  
Alternatively, check out the programs linked here:

> [@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 …

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