# Mp3tag and VLC Android show different tags and cover

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-and-vlc-android-show-different-tags-and-cover/70104
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [November 9, 2025, 8:41am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-and-vlc-android-show-different-tags-and-cover/70104 "2025-11-09T08:41:38Z")
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#### Post date: [November 12, 2025, 5:04pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-and-vlc-android-show-different-tags-and-cover/70104/7 "2025-11-12T17:04:41Z")

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OK, and what would you do until the feature is implemented?  
There threads that date back to 2006 or see e.g. this thread:

> [@comparing id3v1 and id3v2 tags](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/comparing-id3v1-and-id3v2-tags/10415):
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> Hi. Since I have not yet figured out the full extent of mp3tag's powers, I wanted to ask you if mp3tag has means to solve the following problem: I want to parse my whole music collection and get rid of all my id3v1 tags. However I don't want to discard them blindly, but compare them first with the v2 tags and only delete v1 tags that are indeed identical - in order not to lose any information (=delete all except inconsistent tags). I would then compare the remaining inconsistent (not identical)…

and that nothing has changed in the meantime.  
So far, the philosophy is that tag data from different file type and tag types have to be accumulated in an internal field variable. After that accumulation, there is no way to trace back which data came from which tag version.  
I am not too confident that a change of the basic handling will come very soon.

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