# MP3 Player Reading Incorrectly
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3-player-reading-incorrectly/2546
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [November 28, 2005, 9:29pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3-player-reading-incorrectly/2546 "2005-11-28T21:29:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Nick](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Nick)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2005, 9:29pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3-player-reading-incorrectly/2546/1 "2005-11-28T21:29:21Z")
Okay, so I have 2 different files - one that works (I didn't touch it yet) and one that doesn't (Tried to put tags on it).
I can't see any difference between the two really, when I click on properties for them both with Mp3tag V.2.33a both songs come up under the TAG area with "Version: ID3v1 (ID3v1 ID3v2). They both have a normal title, artist, and album. There both MPEG 1 Layer III with the same bitrate and frequency and mode.
When I play both files on my MP3 player, one comes up correctly, and the other one says "[chinese symbol]a". The a is the first letter of the song title.
Any way I can get this to work?
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2005, 8:48am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3-player-reading-incorrectly/2546/2 "2005-11-29T08:48:28Z")
Please read [this](https://docs.mp3tag.de/getting-started/release-notes/#mp3tag-v233).
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### Author:  [@Nick](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Nick)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2005, 8:46pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3-player-reading-incorrectly/2546/3 "2005-11-29T20:46:11Z")
😲😃😃 Thanks a big bunch, I would've never thought. That woulda sucked having spent 10+ hrs tagging my music, and it not working. Yet again, thx.
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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/mp3-player-reading-incorrectly/2546/4 "2026-02-09T12:19:32Z")