# Impossible to edit certain tags in files

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/impossible-to-edit-certain-tags-in-files/45457
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 17, 2019, 12:38pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/impossible-to-edit-certain-tags-in-files/45457 "2019-05-17T12:38:09Z")
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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: [May 17, 2019, 5:48pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/impossible-to-edit-certain-tags-in-files/45457/4 "2019-05-17T17:48:46Z")

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If the problem goes away when you recode, it may be worthwhile to check the files for integrity first.  
You find a section in the HowTos showing links to 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 …

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