# MP3 not responding
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3-not-responding/45205
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [April 20, 2019, 4:06pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3-not-responding/45205 "2019-04-20T16:06:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@MichaelF](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/MichaelF)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2019, 4:06pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3-not-responding/45205/1 "2019-04-20T16:06:09Z")
I have been using MP3tag fro years but just started having a problem.
I try to find a folder to load files to be tagged and I get the message mp3tag is not responding. Close the programme or wait for the program to respond.
I click to close the program and it takes ages to close.
I try to close it on task manager it still takes ages.
Eventually when it closes and I open it again it happens again.
I was running version 2.95 so I uninstalled it and replaced it with version 2.94.
The same thing happened.
Any ideas.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2019, 4:18pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3-not-responding/45205/2 "2019-04-20T16:18:10Z")
You could check the files for corruption:
> [@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:  [@MichaelF](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/MichaelF)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2019, 5:13pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3-not-responding/45205/3 "2019-04-20T17:13:39Z")
The files I tried to edit were not corrupt. They play perfectly well in my media player although the tags need editing.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2019, 5:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3-not-responding/45205/4 "2019-04-20T17:27:20Z")
> [@MichaelF](#):
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> The files I tried to edit were not corrupt
How do you know? Apparently, they cause trouble as other files do not. So there must be something different about these files.
One easy way to find out is to check them with one or more of the linked utilities.
As soon as it is clear that the files are really in order, the next step would be to find out whether there are other programs blocking the files so that if comes to a deadlock.
Your indication that
> [@MichaelF](#):
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> replaced it with version 2.94.
> The same thing happened.
leads me to the suspicion that there is something wrong with the files.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3-not-responding/45205/5 "2026-02-09T12:28:02Z")