# Length Field display
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/length-field-display/62646
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [November 3, 2023, 7:04pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/length-field-display/62646 "2023-11-03T19:04:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@TKMBurlington](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/TKMBurlington)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2023, 7:04pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/length-field-display/62646/1 "2023-11-03T19:04:09Z")
I have some files where the song LENGTH is not being displayed. When I look at the properties of the file inder the TAG lable in the Version field it says "ID3v2.3 ERROR: MP3 header parse error (ID3v1 ID3v2.3)" and "Length: 00:00 (0)"
Please explain and/or correct
Tom
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### Author:  [@Doug\_Mackie](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Doug_Mackie)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2023, 7:41pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/length-field-display/62646/2 "2023-11-03T19:41:32Z")
Please try the tests on this page and report back:
> [@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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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2023, 6:37am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/length-field-display/62646/3 "2023-11-04T06:37:42Z")
> [@TKMBurlington](#):
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> says "ID3v2.3 ERROR: MP3 header parse error (ID3v1 ID3v2.3)" and "Length: 00:00 (0)"
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> Please explain and/or correct
MP3tag is only the messenger. These files are damaged.
You can try whether the tools linked by @Doug_Mackie can still do anything.
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### Author:  [@TKMBurlington](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/TKMBurlington)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2023, 6:12pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/length-field-display/62646/4 "2023-11-04T18:12:26Z")
Downloaded and installed MP3 Diags. Not a very intuitive app and very technical with regard to all aspects of the MP3 file structure and associated TAG elements. Fortunately, I am technically oriented so was able to figure out the repair process and apply the "transformation" to the affected files. This corrected whatever was impacting the MP3 Tag display to reveal the Lenth field properly
Thank you
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2023, 6:13pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/length-field-display/62646/5 "2023-12-04T18:13:10Z")
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