# MP3 damaged or Mp3Tag missing something?

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3-damaged-or-mp3tag-missing-something/66772
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [December 7, 2024, 9:01am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3-damaged-or-mp3tag-missing-something/66772 "2024-12-07T09:01:14Z")
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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: [December 7, 2024, 9:08am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3-damaged-or-mp3tag-missing-something/66772/2 "2024-12-07T09:08:57Z")

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MP3tag shows this file as damaged (red circle with an X inside).  
Here is a thread with links to tools that may correct the tags.

> [@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 …

I tried MP3diags and that restores the audio data. The tag data is lost, though.

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