# MP3 reports cannot open file for writing
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3-reports-cannot-open-file-for-writing/45266
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [April 27, 2019, 10:43pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3-reports-cannot-open-file-for-writing/45266 "2019-04-27T22:43:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@rjsully45](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/rjsully45)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2019, 10:43pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3-reports-cannot-open-file-for-writing/45266/1 "2019-04-27T22:43:50Z")
About two months ago, MP3tag began to refuse the changes I requested for my MP3 files. It instead gave me a message "File D:(whatever)...songtitle...
cannot be opened for writing.
I am using Mp3tag v2.94.
Any ideas on a fix?
Thanks,
RJSully
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2019, 8:07am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3-reports-cannot-open-file-for-writing/45266/2 "2019-04-28T08:07:21Z")
What changed 2 months ago?
Who is the owner of the files? (it is not enough to be Administrator)
Are the files OK? See e.g. [How to check files for errors?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-check-files-for-errors/44633)
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### Author:  [@rjsully45](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/rjsully45)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2019, 1:36am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3-reports-cannot-open-file-for-writing/45266/3 "2019-04-29T01:36:03Z")
I don't recall anything unusual. I think I upgraded to a more recent version of MP3tag.
The files seem fine in that they play audio OK.
The Administrator angle is interesting. from time to time I have been getting notices from Windows regarding administrator status.
I see that that the MP3Tag community has recommendations to check for Mp3 file errors. I will try them out and report back.
Thanks for the response, Florian.
Rick
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2019, 4:48am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3-reports-cannot-open-file-for-writing/45266/4 "2019-04-29T04:48:58Z")
Updating MP3tag hardly ever leads to unwritable files.
Files are not necessarily OK if something can be heard.
What happens if you move one of the files ot a completely different folder, e.g. documents? Can you modify the tags there?
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### Author:  [@NormalReaction](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/NormalReaction)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2022, 3:32pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3-reports-cannot-open-file-for-writing/45266/6 "2022-04-01T15:32:08Z")
I use Mp3Tag to write metadata to the wav files I create from Cubase Pro 12 prior to uploading them to Bandcamp. I also use it to edit the data for work in progress mp3 files that I use to check earlier versions of mix downs.
I have not tried to edit the metadate for a wav file for a while and have updated mp3 tag in the meantime, and have moved from Cubase 9 to 10. I now find I cannot edit wav metadata.
I appreciate the point about checking that Cubase has not somehow created a wav file with the wrong structure, but how can I do this, and if it has, what is the solution. It was the ability to edit metadata for wavs that led me to get mp3Tag (and make a donnation, as it is so useful!).
Thanks
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2022, 3:42pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3-reports-cannot-open-file-for-writing/45266/7 "2022-04-01T15:42:15Z")
There is a similar report here:
> [@Ver 3.14 bug: file "cannot be opened for writing"](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ver-3-14-bug-file-cannot-be-opened-for-writing/56892/12):
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> oh, it's a wav file! I opened the file with Nero Wav Editor and saved it again and then had no problem to save a tag. The support for tags of wav fiels in WE is scarce to virutally non-existent. So the windows explorer is yet again no good test environment to check MP3tags tagging capabilities.
Yet, if I save the same wav file again with e.g. Nero WaveEditor then I get a taggable file.
So right now I think that some of the hex editor boffins have to look into it.
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### Author:  [@poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/poster)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2022, 5:47pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3-reports-cannot-open-file-for-writing/45266/8 "2022-04-01T17:47:55Z")
> [@NormalReaction](#):
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> I appreciate the point about checking that Cubase has not somehow created a wav file with the wrong structure, but how can I do this, and if it has, what is the solution.
The easiest way is to rewrite the file (lossless) with a tool defined in MP3tag. I had to use it very often because my favorite recording tool used to create wave-files with a wrong header.
> [@User-defined Tools](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/user-defined-tools/966/7):
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> Example — Re-encode WAV using ffmpeg Some WAV files [have an invalid structure](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-check-files-for-errors/44633) or extra junk bytes at some RIFF chunks so re-encoding the file might fix the problems. You can use the excellent [ffmpeg](http://ffmpeg.org/download.html#build-windows) command line utility as a user-defined tool from within Mp3tag. Name wav2wav Path Please locate the path of your ffmpeg.exe Parameter -i "%\_filename\_ext%" "%\_folderpath%\%\_filename%\_out.wav"
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2022, 5:43pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3-reports-cannot-open-file-for-writing/45266/9 "2022-04-02T17:43:15Z")
Can you retry those files with [Mp3tag v3.14a](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/455)?
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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-reports-cannot-open-file-for-writing/45266/10 "2026-02-09T12:28:03Z")