# Tag not actually saving, despite being changed in mp3tag

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-not-actually-saving-despite-being-changed-in-mp3tag/40808>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [February 14, 2018, 6:46am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-not-actually-saving-despite-being-changed-in-mp3tag/40808 "2018-02-14T06:46:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Stealth](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Stealth](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Stealth)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2018, 6:46am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-not-actually-saving-despite-being-changed-in-mp3tag/40808/1 "2018-02-14T06:46:29Z")

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Recently just changed an artist name in mp3tag and saved it. The artist had an apostrophe in it, but it was tagged with the weird one, instead of \> ' \<. I replaced it with the correct apostrophe and saved it, closed mp3tag and opened the album on Musicbee and there was no change. I reopened the album in mp3tag and it shows as changed, even though it's not being displayed as changed in Musicbee. I then had to change it through Musicbee and that worked. Any idea what could be happening?

Edit: No tags are actually being changed, despite appearing changed in mp3tag.

Edit 2: I think it might just be Musicbee somehow not knowing tags have been changed.

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**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:** [February 14, 2018, 6:59am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-not-actually-saving-despite-being-changed-in-mp3tag/40808/2 "2018-02-14T06:59:01Z")

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Doesn't Musicbee have a database in the background to store file data?  
This would have to be updated.  
What happens if you rename the file (slightly) and add it to Musicbee - does this (new) file show the changes?

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**Author:** ![Stealth](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Stealth](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Stealth)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2018, 7:28am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-not-actually-saving-despite-being-changed-in-mp3tag/40808/3 "2018-02-14T07:28:47Z")

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Haha, before reading this I decided to rename the files (the file names) and it fixed it! Thanks!

While I was visiting the forum I saw 2 posts that helped me change 2 things that annoyed me (Double clicking a song opening the file, and having to confirm every change). All in all I'm happy now!

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**Author:** ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2026, 12:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-not-actually-saving-despite-being-changed-in-mp3tag/40808/4 "2026-02-09T12:27:14Z")

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