# Windows Media Player cannot play an M4A file after editing the Album field in Mp3tag v3.35

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/windows-media-player-cannot-play-an-m4a-file-after-editing-the-album-field-in-mp3tag-v3-35/71500
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [June 26, 2026, 5:04am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/windows-media-player-cannot-play-an-m4a-file-after-editing-the-album-field-in-mp3tag-v3-35/71500 "2026-06-26T05:04:33Z")
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### Author: ![LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/c6cbf5/32.png) [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2026, 6:40am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/windows-media-player-cannot-play-an-m4a-file-after-editing-the-album-field-in-mp3tag-v3-35/71500/3 "2026-06-26T06:40:39Z")

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> [@BBB](#):
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> or is there anything else I should investigate?

This hint might help, too.

> [@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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