# Renaming tags fails - program freezes
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renaming-tags-fails-program-freezes/68784
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [June 9, 2025, 11:45am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renaming-tags-fails-program-freezes/68784 "2025-06-09T11:45:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 18
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### Author:  [@Su2025](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Su2025)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2025, 11:45am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renaming-tags-fails-program-freezes/68784/1 "2025-06-09T11:45:43Z")
I use mp3Tag for quite a while, but for some months now, renaming tags from filenames will freeze frequently.
I use MS10 home built 19045.5854
I don´t know if windows is the problem or that mp3tag changed somehow.
and I stopped renaming more then 30 files (in earlier times renaming with some 100 tracks hasn´t be a problem) ☹
is there anything I can do?
(I use the acual v3.30 version, but it startet to get difficult some versions before)
Thanks
Su
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2025, 12:10pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renaming-tags-fails-program-freezes/68784/2 "2025-06-09T12:10:04Z")
What kind of files are these?
Have you checked the files for problems?
> [@How to check files for errors?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-check-files-for-errors/44633):
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> 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 …
Where do you store the files ? Locally or the network?
Does this happen to the same files repeatedly or do you see the behaviour with different (random) files?
Do you get any messages?
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### Author:  [@Su2025](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Su2025)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2025, 12:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renaming-tags-fails-program-freezes/68784/3 "2025-06-09T12:28:46Z")
Yes, I checked it and with the old Godfatherprogram I was able to rename everything without the freezing effect 🤔
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2025, 12:31pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renaming-tags-fails-program-freezes/68784/4 "2025-06-09T12:31:05Z")
What kind of files do you try to rename? FLAC? mp3? MKV?
Are they stored locally on a internal SSD? External USB? NAS?
Do you have any anti-virus software running?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2025, 12:32pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renaming-tags-fails-program-freezes/68784/5 "2025-06-09T12:32:27Z")
> [@Su2025](#):
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> Godfatherprogram
I don't know what that is.
Could you please answer also the other questions.
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### Author:  [@Su2025](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Su2025)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2025, 12:47pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renaming-tags-fails-program-freezes/68784/6 "2025-06-09T12:47:24Z")
Plain mp3's
Local store, hdd
Just the annoying MS defender (but says nothing)
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2025, 12:48pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renaming-tags-fails-program-freezes/68784/7 "2025-06-09T12:48:52Z")
See if this helps:
> [@Windows Defender - Speed of loading files in MP3Tag](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/windows-defender-speed-of-loading-files-in-mp3tag/47784):
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> In the past I already noticed that the antivirus-software of windows-defender slows down the loading speed of files in MP3Tag dramatically: At this time my third-party antivirus-software (Avast) had been gotten accidently deactivated and windows-defender activated. This time I wanted to give windows-defender a second chance, deinstalled Avast and activated the defender. The same happened as before: Mp3Tag became very slow in loading files in spite of the activated library-function. I tested…
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### Author:  [@Su2025](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Su2025)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2025, 12:49pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renaming-tags-fails-program-freezes/68784/8 "2025-06-09T12:49:27Z")
The GodFather 0.89
Thats an old program for renaming
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### Author:  [@Su2025](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Su2025)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2025, 12:50pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renaming-tags-fails-program-freezes/68784/9 "2025-06-09T12:50:48Z")
I will try it out:folded\_hands: 💪
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2025, 12:51pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renaming-tags-fails-program-freezes/68784/10 "2025-06-09T12:51:17Z")
> [@Su2025](#):
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> renaming tags from filenames will freeze frequently
Do you mean "freeze forever and Mp3tag never returns and never finish the rename process" or is this only an annoying delay but works in the end?
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### Author:  [@Su2025](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Su2025)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2025, 1:00pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renaming-tags-fails-program-freezes/68784/11 "2025-06-09T13:00:21Z")
I have to shutdown the computer, not even the taskmanager can end the process
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### Author:  [@Su2025](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Su2025)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2025, 1:03pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renaming-tags-fails-program-freezes/68784/12 "2025-06-09T13:03:36Z")
And I just deactevated the real time protection, an exeption in the windows defender roles - and it still freezes 🤷♀️
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2025, 1:07pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renaming-tags-fails-program-freezes/68784/13 "2025-06-09T13:07:51Z")
Does this always happen to the same file or a different file all the time?
See e.g. this thread:
> [@Tag to filename stopped working](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-to-filename-stopped-working/59754):
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> Just ran into this problem where all of mp3tag is functional, save for the tag to filename tool. The file list gets grayed-out and nothing happens; the only way out is to kill the program in task manager. Updated to the last version this AM but the issue wasn't resolved. Just wondering if anyone came across this issue and knows how to resolve it. Thanks in advance Speedy
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### Author:  [@Su2025](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Su2025)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2025, 2:09pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renaming-tags-fails-program-freezes/68784/14 "2025-06-09T14:09:37Z")
It doesn't matter which file, I tried 4 they were ok, but with my 100drets of tags, Id prefere an errormessage instead of fishing in the dark 😶
And as I said, with another tag manager it worked
What a pity, I love mp3 tag!
It seems that you all dont't have this problem and Im not sure if I'm willing for a new computer
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2025, 2:14pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renaming-tags-fails-program-freezes/68784/15 "2025-06-09T14:14:43Z")
> [@Su2025](#):
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> It seems that you all dont't have this problem
It looks to me as though you cannot reproduce it also, it just happens randomly.
Also, we in the distance have to rely on everything you say as we cannot look over your shoulder.
I still suspect that it is a local problem of colliding applications that quarrel over changed files.
E.g. it was suspected once, that an anti-virus program may block process as renaming a lot of files may look like the attack of a malignant software.
So, you have to investigate, e.g. with the process explorer by sysinternals if there are programs that access the same files that MP3tag does.
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### Author:  [@Su2025](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Su2025)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2025, 4:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renaming-tags-fails-program-freezes/68784/16 "2025-06-09T16:27:24Z")
Yea, I know what you mean.
The issues you recommended to check I did and unfortunatwly I was still able to reproduce the problem.
I will see, maybe I really try another computer for that.
Thank you all for your inputs.
Great to have a helpful community! 😊
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2025, 7:40pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renaming-tags-fails-program-freezes/68784/17 "2025-06-30T19:40:51Z")
Can you please try this with the latest beta [Mp3tag v3.30c](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/455)?
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2025, 7:39am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renaming-tags-fails-program-freezes/68784/18 "2025-08-08T07:39:36Z")
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