# Losing quality?
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/losing-quality/3679
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 17, 2006, 10:41am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/losing-quality/3679 "2006-08-17T10:41:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@andy81](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/andy81)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2006, 10:41am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/losing-quality/3679/1 "2006-08-17T10:41:14Z")
Hi,
I'm new to Mp3Tag, and also to the forums - so sorry if this has already been discussed. I'm using version 2.36, and I was just wondering if when editing mp3 ID3 tags it will lose any of the audio quality of the files, the more times you edit a track? Eg. if I was to rename the tag, say 1 or 1000 times, would I notice any loss in sound quality on the mp3?
Cheers,
Andy
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### Author:  [@Sebastian\_Mares](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Sebastian_Mares)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2006, 11:43am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/losing-quality/3679/2 "2006-08-17T11:43:39Z")
No quality loss, except if you have a bad controller or something that causes data loss, but this is very, very rare.
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### Author:  [@andy81](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/andy81)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2006, 1:43pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/losing-quality/3679/3 "2006-08-17T13:43:00Z")
Cool. Just was a bit worried that I might be losing quality if I needed to re-edit the tags for spelling mistakes/adding more info etc. What's a "bad controller" by the way?
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### Author:  [@Sebastian\_Mares](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Sebastian_Mares)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2006, 1:57pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/losing-quality/3679/4 "2006-08-17T13:57:02Z")
Forget about it. 🙂 In some rare cases, the hardware might have problems or incompatibilities causing data corruption.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/losing-quality/3679/5 "2026-02-09T12:19:51Z")