# Why are files show up with X and missing bitrate/length

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/why-are-files-show-up-with-x-and-missing-bitrate-length/69602
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [September 2, 2025, 4:20am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/why-are-files-show-up-with-x-and-missing-bitrate-length/69602 "2025-09-02T04:20:11Z")
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### Author: ![Trancedaddy](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/trancedaddy/32/19554_2.png) [@Trancedaddy](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Trancedaddy)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2025, 4:20am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/why-are-files-show-up-with-x-and-missing-bitrate-length/69602/1 "2025-09-02T04:20:11Z")

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Why am I getting x in front of songs, as you can see it not showing the bitrate or length of the song, yet when I review them in foobar they show up with no issue and can play

 ![image](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/3X/4/3/436c05e188c6ce93cde1445ef4944d7f5899a276.png)

 ![image](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/3X/7/e/7eaebe1f7fd46265207eea3393a369c1059224dd.png)

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### Author: ![Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/florian/32/5759_2.png) [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2025, 4:39am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/why-are-files-show-up-with-x-and-missing-bitrate-length/69602/2 "2025-09-02T04:39:13Z")

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Details are usually shown in the **Tag** File-List column. Can you check the files via MP3 Diags and see if you can repair them with one of the hammer symbols from the top toolbar?

> [@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: ![Trancedaddy](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/trancedaddy/32/19554_2.png) [@Trancedaddy](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Trancedaddy)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2025, 2:32am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/why-are-files-show-up-with-x-and-missing-bitrate-length/69602/4 "2025-09-04T02:32:55Z")

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I tried with Foobar2000 as it has a repair functions built into it but even afterwards its still not showing up correctly, but I will try MP3 Diag and see if that makes any difference.

![image](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/3X/3/c/3c004b820cdfa755ca5b3429d62a161bb9608284.png)

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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: [October 4, 2025, 2:33am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/why-are-files-show-up-with-x-and-missing-bitrate-length/69602/5 "2025-10-04T02:33:18Z")

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