# WMP11 Only Reading ID3v1 Tags
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wmp11-only-reading-id3v1-tags/4293
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [January 6, 2007, 5:36pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wmp11-only-reading-id3v1-tags/4293 "2007-01-06T17:36:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@sigloiv](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/sigloiv)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2007, 5:36pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wmp11-only-reading-id3v1-tags/4293/1 "2007-01-06T17:36:25Z")
First off, I want to say I love Mp3tag. I've been using it for the past two years or so with a temporary lapse of Mediamonkey in the middle, but I saw the light and I'm using it again. Here's my problem though:
Any tag editing I do is shown in real time in WMP11. Great, I love it. However, it's only showing the changes done to the ID3v1 tags. Any extended tags or tags over the name length limit just don't show up. In other words I have "The Devil and God Are Raging I" instead of "The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me".
Here's what I've tried:
- ID3v2.3 Unicode
- ID3v2.3 ISO-8859-1
- ID3v2.4
- removing ID3v1 tags completely
The first three did nothing, and the last one just made all the tags disappear. The funny thing is, I fixed a problem last night by switching _to_ ID3v2.4.
I'm running Vista RTM Ultimate and WMP11 Final. Any help would be hugely appreciated. Thanks!
EDIT: This is really weird. I was just continuing to go through the cycle of the different tag formats, and all of a sudden, after it not working 2 or 3 times, ID3v2.3 ISO-8859-1 suddenly works. Can anyone tell me how to get ID3v2.4 tags working with WMP11? They were last night...
EDIT 2: And ID3v2.3 stop working. It's back to exclusively reading ID3v1. What is going on?
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2007, 7:56pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wmp11-only-reading-id3v1-tags/4293/2 "2007-01-06T19:56:59Z")
You should know that WMP does not read ID3v2.4 at all.
If you give it a file with ID3v2.4 and make changes on it WMP creaets a second ID3v2.3 tag and that might cause even more trouble.
So use only ID3v2.3 and maybe you need to delete the whole id3v2 tag before you start trying again.
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### Author:  [@sigloiv](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/sigloiv)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2007, 8:15pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wmp11-only-reading-id3v1-tags/4293/3 "2007-01-06T20:15:42Z")
Yikes. Yeah, I'm doing a major overhaul of my library anyways, so I may as well just start over. Thanks for the help.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wmp11-only-reading-id3v1-tags/4293/4 "2026-02-09T12:20:05Z")