i see just a few tracks are missing basic info - duration, bit rate, frequency, but 1. see no way to add them also i see in fie properties, it says error pasrsing id3.2.3 MP3 error Parse error but i checked all the tags, but i can see no reason for error - but of course maybe the error is in th…

hmm. i have MP3 Diags around somewhere ...

well, i managed to find a Windows install of this. previously all the talk about 'binaries' made me dizzy. installed tested on sample of files. looks really really good, but i had a 'partial' fatal error trying to actually fix. so i have logged that fault with them

I think you should also investigate the source for our problematic files. Which of the programs along your workflow caused the corrupt files?

can't tell .. over past month i have massaged them with several different app ... MP3Tag, MP3Gain, etc .... but is only about 40 out of 5,000 but i just don't understand why it doesn't find/have those basic values if i can get MP3 Diags working, that would be great because it looks like a really …

If MP3tag cannot display that what you call [image] dec: basic values then the file is damaged. If you cannot get MP3diags to run (which is nothing to be discussed in this forum) then get the safety copy of the file or try the source from whereever you got the file again and see if that fil…

[image] dec: but i just don't understand why it doesn't find/have those basic values These are technical values for the file, not user-defined tags. They are generally written by the software the has ripped or converted the audio file. When they are missing, it is usually a pretty good sign t…

Missing Basic Tag Data + Error

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ohrenkino May 17, 2023, 1:37pm 2

Usually, such error messages do not appear because the program is in the mood to do so.
Please have a look at the linked topic and check the files first: