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 …

Yeah that is what is the problem now yes. The lengths of the songs are pretty wacked. I have this thing where I make long playlists, and sometimes they are getting pretty messed up by the wrong times. I use Musicolet app on Android and it doesn't always skip (in its now playing view) to the next …

You can load your playlist in Mp3tag and then save it again. This should use your "new" song lengths. (You can easily test it, just use a new Playlistname and have a look if the length fit your songs).

I am not sure about that. I think there may be a huge issue with wrong times in the headers of the files. I want to get them right and I'm thinking about restoring the old iTunes files from an old backup from several years ago, since they are the meat of the stack, however there are a lot of other…

[image] Dick_Harpees: Is there any way to correct the times for a massive number of files? Looking at MP3tag: no. MP3tag is a tagging program for the tags around the audio part of a file. Anything about the audio part has to be edited with a dedicated audio editor.

It doesn't have a function that can change the songs stated times in any way?

[image] Dick_Harpees: I need to fix the mp3s times to fit the audio actually in them. You could use the tools mentioned here: [image] Hints for asking Support Requests Support If you need support using Mp3tag, you can help the community members that are …

[image] Dick_Harpees: change the songs stated times No. The length is part of the audio header that is not handled by MP3tag.

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.

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

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ohrenkino February 4, 2024, 3:59pm 8

Have a look at

and the linked tools there.
Perhaps they help you.