Hi All I renumbered the tags for some mp3 files using MP3TAG When I went to play the files afterwards none of them play. Why is this? Has the program damaged the files? Best Wishes

[image] chayes: Hi All I renumbered the tags for some mp3 files using MP3TAG When I went to play the files afterwards none of them play. Why is this? Has the program damaged the files? Best Wishes Check your player and the versions of tags it understands. E.g. if your player only understa…

[image] chayes: Why is this? Has the program damaged the files? Changing any TAG apart from the _FILENAME will not damage files. Do you still have the extension .mp3 on the _FILENAME. Create a column to check this if you don't already have one: Go to View>Customize Columns Do the following …

[image] ohrenkino: Check your player and the versions of tags it understands. E.g. if your player only understand V1 tags then using mp3tag and the default settings may lead to files with (also) v2.3 tags - this may upset your player. Check the settings in MP3tag File>Options>Mpeg and untick th…

[image] chayes: Hi Ok Thanks for this. We are certainly in the right area. I played with the swictches to see the effect of each. Unfortunately , If I turn off writing for 3V2 I can no longer will make changes to tags although the track still plays. If I switch it back on then I can make chan…

I have this same problem with my car player. I have about 10 albums that played fine with V2.3 tags and I went in to change the artist name or something now none of them will play. I just checked and other albums with V2.3 tags work just fine. I can't seem to find any difference in the tags between …

Thank you! I tried it and it didn't work. I will try it again tomorrow to make sure I did it right.

I have never had a problem playing a MP3 in my car in the 6 years I have owned it. I finally got the MP3s I edited with MP3TAG to work today. I had to remove all V2 tags. It worked fine after that.

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MP3 no longer plays

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dano November 9, 2012, 9:37pm 7

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