# \[X\] Wrong bitrate displayed
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-wrong-bitrate-displayed/5890
**Category:** No Bugs
**Created:** [December 13, 2007, 11:00am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-wrong-bitrate-displayed/5890 "2007-12-13T11:00:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@blackspawn](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/blackspawn)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2007, 11:00am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-wrong-bitrate-displayed/5890/1 "2007-12-13T11:00:34Z")
Hi, I've got an album in which 2 songs are read by Mp3Tag has being encoded in MPEG 1 Layer I, one has a bitrate of 160 kBit/s (32000 Hz) and the other 96 kBit/s (48000 Hz). What is strange is that the whole album is MPEG I Layer III with a 256 kBit/s bitrate (44100 Hz).
According to winamp (and windows) all of the tracks are mp3 256 kBit/s (including the two I mentioned that show diferent bitrates in Mp3Tag).
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2007, 3:07pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-wrong-bitrate-displayed/5890/2 "2007-12-13T15:07:58Z")
Can you please [send me](http://www.mp3tag.de/en/contact.html) one of the files for analysing the issue?
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### Author:  [@blackspawn](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/blackspawn)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2007, 4:30am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-wrong-bitrate-displayed/5890/3 "2007-12-14T04:30:40Z")
Sure, just finished sending you the 2 songs. If you need anything else just say so (by the way I tried viewing the files with the development version and got the same result)
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### Author:  [@Moonbase](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Moonbase)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2007, 10:11am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-wrong-bitrate-displayed/5890/4 "2007-12-14T10:11:35Z")
May be a problem of the underlying MP3 decoding library - I've seen this behaviour more often than not if the "Emphasis" bits are non-zero. Also check [my other thread](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/5863/1).
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2007, 8:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-wrong-bitrate-displayed/5890/5 "2007-12-14T20:24:28Z")
The file you've sent is a file encoded with an average bitrate (ABR).
Mp3tag only looks at the first MPEG frame, because analysing the whole file would slow down reading files drastically.
Kind regards,
Florian
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### Author:  [@blackspawn](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/blackspawn)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2007, 1:53am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-wrong-bitrate-displayed/5890/6 "2007-12-17T01:53:31Z")
ok I understand.
Thanks
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2018, 2:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-wrong-bitrate-displayed/5890/7 "2018-12-28T14:21:01Z")
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