# My mp3 player shows incorrect metadata **URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/my-mp3-player-shows-incorrect-metadata/53378 **Category:** Support **Created:** [May 31, 2021, 4:40pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/my-mp3-player-shows-incorrect-metadata/53378 "2021-05-31T16:40:06Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 9
### Author: ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino) #### Post date: [June 2, 2021, 5:12am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/my-mp3-player-shows-incorrect-metadata/53378/9 "2021-06-02T05:12:29Z")
> [@Doni](#): > > The car audio probably only reads the ID3v1 tags My experience on this is that if the player really is that ancient that it does not understand V2.3 tags then it also refuses to play such files as the V2 tags are mostly situated at the front of a file and the V1 tags are at the end. The V2 tags are then either interpreted as audio data and played or the player does not play such a file at all. But let's see if there is any progress on this. To see what could be a problem with car stereos, have a glance at this thread: > [@Ford SYNC2 to SYNC3](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ford-sync2-to-sync3/18707): > > I prepared myself (with mp3Tag obviously) collection of my favorite CDs in mp3 320, specially with cover photos embedded. On SYNC3 (Microsoft on Windows Mobile) device everything was ok. Week ago I changed SYNC2 to SYNC3 (new Ford auto-system designer by BlackBerry with QNX) and everything is ok too expecting this cover photos. SYNC3 uses Gracenote service to receive all information about played art but when this option is disapled it take info from local QDB database called Gracenote. But there… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/my-mp3-player-shows-incorrect-metadata/53378)._