# Updated Tags Don't show in iTunes

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/updated-tags-dont-show-in-itunes/49618>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [July 14, 2020, 8:10pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/updated-tags-dont-show-in-itunes/49618 "2020-07-14T20:10:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Kvng](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/b5ac83/32.png) [@Kvng](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Kvng)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2020, 8:10pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/updated-tags-dont-show-in-itunes/49618/1 "2020-07-14T20:10:27Z")

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I used this one time like 3 days ago putting an explicit tag and tried the same today but everytime I try, it doesn't save. can anyone help?

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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:** [July 14, 2020, 8:15pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/updated-tags-dont-show-in-itunes/49618/2 "2020-07-14T20:15:38Z")

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How do you know?  
Do you get an error message?

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**Author:** ![Kvng](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/b5ac83/32.png) [@Kvng](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Kvng)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2020, 8:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/updated-tags-dont-show-in-itunes/49618/4 "2020-07-14T20:23:41Z")

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the reason i know is because it says saving tag 1 of 1 or something like that don't know because it happens really quick but i didn't get the pop up saying tag saved. and when i go to Itunes, the song didn't change

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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:** [July 15, 2020, 4:28am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/updated-tags-dont-show-in-itunes/49618/5 "2020-07-15T04:28:03Z")

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> [@Kvng](#):
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> and when i go to Itunes, the song didn't change

So it is an iTunes problem? What do the tags look like in MP3tag? Are they ok there?  
As iTunes has its own database you would need to trigger the function that updates this database. One would be: delete the entry from iTunes and then import the file again. Also, there are scripts around that update the database with the data from the files.

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**Author:** ![iamyou](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@iamyou](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/iamyou)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2020, 11:42am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/updated-tags-dont-show-in-itunes/49618/6 "2020-07-16T11:42:29Z")

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can you open that specific music file in a music-playing program like WinAMP or VideoLAN.  
Then, you can try to view the music file and see what tags you have saved/written.

MP3Tag can read/write APE and ID3 tags.  
( so, in MP3Tag, `Tools -> Opens -> Tags -> Mpeg` see what tags are being written by MP3Tag )

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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/updated-tags-dont-show-in-itunes/49618/7 "2026-02-09T12:28:43Z")

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