# Music files corrupt or unsupported format **URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/music-files-corrupt-or-unsupported-format/59346 **Category:** Support **Created:** [December 9, 2022, 4:16pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/music-files-corrupt-or-unsupported-format/59346 "2022-12-09T16:16:27Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 4
### 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: [December 9, 2022, 4:41pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/music-files-corrupt-or-unsupported-format/59346/4 "2022-12-09T16:41:13Z")
If they cannot be recovered using these suggested tools, then you will have to try from an older backup if you have one, or rip again from the original source if possible. But the tags have nothing to do with the audio portion of the files.. Have you tried the suggested tool MP3Val? This has fixed many bad files that I had over the years. > [@How to check files for errors?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-check-files-for-errors/44633#mp3val-validate-and-fix-mpeg-audio-files-2): > > It’s required and often helps to reduce support cycles to check files for errors before filing a bug report. Symptoms of erroneous files are often missing or wrong bitrate or length audible blips or skips tags seem to be sticky and cannot be removed There are some really good tools to check the files for errors, namely MP3 Diags — identifies many different issues in MP3 files Website: [http://mp3diags.sourceforge.net](http://mp3diags.sourceforge.net) Download: [MP3 Diags - Getting MP3 Diags](http://mp3diags.sourceforge.net/010_getting_the_program.html#binWindows) If the font size in MP3 Diags is … Ultimately I have to pull out my original CDs to correct a few unrecoverable file errors. But in my case this made sense as I now only use lossless, whereas long ago when storage was at a premium, many of my rips were only at 192kHZ or 256kHz mp3. --- _[View the full topic](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/music-files-corrupt-or-unsupported-format/59346)._