I edited the heck out of my mp3 tags a few months back, and wound up with great tags, nearly complete artwork (though often only one song on an album will have none for no explainable reason) and everything looked great. However there was a huge problem with the mp3s. About half of them now have t…

[image] Dick_Harpees: What I need is the files to have the correct times. I need to fix the mp3s times to fit the audio actually in them. Have a look at [image] Hints for asking Support Requests Support If you need support using Mp3tag, you can help the …

Because I'm pretty sure it was using the mp3tag program that made the times jump in some way. I figured maybe you'd heard something like this before.

[image] Dick_Harpees: I'm pretty sure it was using the mp3tag program that made the times jump in some way Mp3tag does not touch the audio part. Therefore it is nearly impossible that Mp3tag is the cause of your "time jumps".

No experience with the iTunes comments? I kind of thought it might have been the reason they got messed primarily. Over 160GB of iTunes files and all have the same 2x of the proper time.

It is time to come up with some real facts and stop guessing. What did the analysis with MP3diags reveal? Could you supply one of the messed up files?

I think MP3val could be the program for you: MP3val is a small, high-speed, free software tool for checking MPEG audio files' integrity. It can be useful for finding corrupted files (e.g. incompletely downloaded, truncated, containing garbage). MP3val is also able to fix most of the problems. ht…

mp3val and MP3diags are both suggested tools in the linked support thread: [image] How to check files for errors? Howto 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…

I have been using iTunes since the day it became available for Win. And mp3tag for almost as long. I have never had this experience with the song length changing when making tag edits in either program. The time is calculated based on the actual song length and is not one that can be edited by mp3t…

I have a lot of these to fix. I know for a fact that my John Mellencamp album was playing at 2x the would be length. If there is a solution I will find it. I was looking for a way to fix all the files at one time. I will try MP3Val. I guess there could also be issues with the Micro SD card. It…

[image] Dick_Harpees: a large block of coded information put there by iTunes when it ripped the file). The size of the tag data does not alter the length of the audio part. Could you supply one of these inflated files?

sure. In fact it is not only the ones from iTunes as I have made a screenshot of some files I have acquired more recently by download or by using mp3 cutter app (android) to slice into individual songs. I made this screenshot and it includes the windows explorer from the removed microSD of the def…

How to fix mass of mp3 wrong times? after editing 50000 songs, times all wrong

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LyricsLover February 4, 2024, 9:13pm 16

mp3val and MP3diags are both suggested tools in the linked support thread:

Now we have to wait until @Dick_Harpees tells us the result of his checks.