# Tags not recognized by Windows Media Player

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tags-not-recognized-by-windows-media-player/49161>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [May 31, 2020, 1:40pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tags-not-recognized-by-windows-media-player/49161 "2020-05-31T13:40:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![bakaadjib](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/b19c9b/32.png) [@bakaadjib](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/bakaadjib)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2020, 1:40pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tags-not-recognized-by-windows-media-player/49161/1 "2020-05-31T13:40:07Z")

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Hello everyone !

I just have changed the tags of all my 900+ songs playlist. Everything's fine except for 86 of these songs.  
They are all MP3 files. Tags are changed properly in MP3TAG and can be seen in the software.

Problem : these 86 files can't be read by Windows Media Player (VLC can though) or on all Android music reader apps. I notice that the tags do not appear in the properties of these files.

Did anyone have this problem before and if yes, how can it be solved ?  
Thanks in advance ! 🙂

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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:** [May 31, 2020, 3:57pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tags-not-recognized-by-windows-media-player/49161/2 "2020-05-31T15:57:32Z")

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Do these files have V2.4 tags?  
WMP does not understand these.

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**Author:** ![bakaadjib](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/b19c9b/32.png) [@bakaadjib](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/bakaadjib)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2020, 1:18pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tags-not-recognized-by-windows-media-player/49161/3 "2020-06-01T13:18:46Z")

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These files have apparently ID3V2.3 tags...

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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:** [June 1, 2020, 3:51pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tags-not-recognized-by-windows-media-player/49161/4 "2020-06-01T15:51:14Z")

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The I would check the files for integrity - see this thread for linked utilities:

> [@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 …

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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, 12:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tags-not-recognized-by-windows-media-player/49161/5 "2026-02-09T12:28:37Z")

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