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      xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its"
      type="topic" style="task"
      id="problems-id3">

  <info>
    <link type="guide" xref="index#problems"/>
    <revision pkgversion="2.2.0" date="2014-04-09" status="review"/>

    <include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>

    <credit type="author">
      <name>David King</name>
      <email its:translate="no">amigadave@amigadave.com</email>
    </credit>

    <desc>Fix ID3 tags that show up blank or incorrect tags in other
    applications</desc>
  </info>

  <title>MP3 tags not showing correctly</title>

  <p><em>ID3</em> tags, which are used for MP3 files, can be of one of several
  different versions. <app>EasyTAG</app> supports ID3v2.4, ID3v2.3 and ID3v1.1.
  The default version in <app>EasyTAG</app> is ID3v2.4, which has the most
  features and is most efficient.</p>

  <p>Most applications support the most recent version of the ID3 standard:
  ID3v2.4.</p>

  <p>Some applications and devices may support only ID3v2.3 and ID3v1.1 tags,
  and a few may support only ID3v1.1 tags. If another application or a device
  has a problem reading tags from your files, you should try changing the ID3
  tag version settings in the preferences:</p>

  <steps>
    <item>
      <p>Select
      <guiseq style="menuitem"><gui style="menu">Edit</gui><gui style="menuitem">Preferences</gui></guiseq></p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>Select the <gui style="tab">ID3 Tag Settings</gui> tab</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>In the <gui style="group">ID3v2 tags</gui> section, choose the
      <gui>ID3v2.3</gui> setting in the <gui>Version</gui> drop-down lid to
      improve compatibility with other systems capable of reading ID3v2 tags</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>Make sure that <gui style="check">Write ID3v1.x tag</gui> is checked
      in the <gui style="group">ID3v1 tags</gui> section</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>Click <gui style="button">OK</gui> to save the settings</p>
    </item>
  </steps>

</page>
