# Track numbers not being seen? **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [February 22, 2016, 7:58pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/track-numbers-not-being-seen/17681 "2016-02-22T19:58:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Rijkstra](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/rijkstra/32/22_2.png) [@Rijkstra](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Rijkstra)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2016, 4:52pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/track-numbers-not-being-seen/17681/21 "2016-02-24T16:52:48Z")
> [@ohrenkino](#): > > No - what should be the criteria? > If you look at V1 and V2 tags, they have different standards in respect to names, position and maximum lengths. > I think that a TITLE can only have 30 odd characters in V1 but at least 255 for V2. So where would you rate something as inconsistent? > And this could be the case for most other combinations. Mp3tag reads tags into a common GUI, so if the fields it reads are different it could give a warning. Length is no problem--just compare up to the length of the shorter field. I don't want to deal with APE tags, because the other tools I use normally don't write them. I've yet to encounter an MP3 file that has had ONLY the APE tag. If I see no tag information at all, the first thing I'll look for is the info in %\_tag% displayed in parentheses in the default TAG field. If I ever see only APE, I'll read it and write ID3v2.3 UTF-16. ---
**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 25, 2016, 5:07am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/track-numbers-not-being-seen/17681/22 "2016-02-25T05:07:01Z")
Did you see Post #17 - this might bring you further than the discussion about the different perception of tag versions. ---
**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, 12:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/track-numbers-not-being-seen/17681/23 "2026-02-09T12:26:06Z")
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