# Mp3tag not showing tag informaton
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-not-showing-tag-informaton/5982
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [December 30, 2007, 1:08am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-not-showing-tag-informaton/5982 "2007-12-30T01:08:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@lordofpine](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/lordofpine)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2007, 1:08am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-not-showing-tag-informaton/5982/1 "2007-12-30T01:08:41Z")
It is showing there is a tag in tag column and is showing codec bitrate ect.
but is not showing artist albumn and title information I know exist.
Can you tell me why it is not being displayed
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2007, 11:29am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-not-showing-tag-informaton/5982/2 "2007-12-30T11:29:11Z")
The file probably contains an (almost) empty APEv2 tag which is preferred over the ID3v2 tag. Just try to disable reading of APEv2 at Options \> Tags \> Mpeg if you don't use it.
Kind regards,
Florian
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### Author:  [@lordofpine](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/lordofpine)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2007, 11:51am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-not-showing-tag-informaton/5982/3 "2007-12-30T11:51:58Z")
Thanks to Florian for solving this problem. I would have never gussed it.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-not-showing-tag-informaton/5982/4 "2026-02-09T12:20:40Z")