# Mp3tag behaves strangely upon start

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-behaves-strangely-upon-start/58287
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 23, 2022, 4:15pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-behaves-strangely-upon-start/58287 "2022-08-23T16:15:40Z")
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### Author: ![MotleyG](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/motleyg/32/440_2.png) [@MotleyG](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/MotleyG)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2022, 2:39am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-behaves-strangely-upon-start/58287/5 "2022-08-24T02:39:59Z")

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> [@azfrankie](#):
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> Why does this happen at all? I sat hours to arrange the program the way I want it to and this happened every now and then.

The program can’t really decide to arbitrarily use or keep the settings as you have chosen, or to “jumble them up.” But have you recently updated mp3tag and gone from Windows 32-bit (which all versions were until recently) to 64-bit? If the old 32-bit program is still present, you could be running different versions.

See here for details of how to properly make this transition.

> [@Notes on the 64-bit version of Mp3tag](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/notes-on-the-64-bit-version-of-mp3tag/57250):
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> I've released a [64-bit version of Mp3tag](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/455) a few days ago and received a few questions about differences between the 32-bit version and the 64-bit version. To make it short, there should not be any noticeable differences except for two things: The 64-bit version uses 64-bits to address memory and is no longer limited to 2 GB per application. While the [Library](https://docs.mp3tag.de/customization/options/library) feature of Mp3tag is already a very viable solution for large libraries, loosening the memory restriction is one of the key benefits of …

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