# 3.18 - After update, title edit is massively slow
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/3-18-after-update-title-edit-is-massively-slow/58694
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 5, 2022, 3:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/3-18-after-update-title-edit-is-massively-slow/58694 "2022-10-05T15:28:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@BoboPagh](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/BoboPagh)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2022, 3:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/3-18-after-update-title-edit-is-massively-slow/58694/1 "2022-10-05T15:28:37Z")
Hi.
Updated to 3.18 yesterday.
Now, when doing simple title edit, say for all tracks on an album, it takes approx. 40 seconds before the line is updated, and I can continue to next track.
Not an issue with previous versions - might something have happened?
Cheers
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2022, 3:31pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/3-18-after-update-title-edit-is-massively-slow/58694/2 "2022-10-05T15:31:04Z")
If you reinstall a previous version of Mp3tag on the same machine and then you do the same edits on the same tracks, how long does it take?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2022, 3:32pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/3-18-after-update-title-edit-is-massively-slow/58694/3 "2022-10-05T15:32:22Z")
You do not say a lot about your environment.
Where have you stored the files? On a NAS?
What kind of files are you treating? MP3? Big files?
Does e.g. this help?
> [@Windows Defender - Speed of loading files in MP3Tag](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/windows-defender-speed-of-loading-files-in-mp3tag/47784):
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> In the past I already noticed that the antivirus-software of windows-defender slows down the loading speed of files in MP3Tag dramatically: At this time my third-party antivirus-software (Avast) had been gotten accidently deactivated and windows-defender activated. This time I wanted to give windows-defender a second chance, deinstalled Avast and activated the defender. The same happened as before: Mp3Tag became very slow in loading files in spite of the activated library-function. I tes…
Or this?
> [@Batch editing performance issues on NAS](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/batch-editing-performance-issues-on-nas/56873):
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> Hi Guys, Been a happy user of MP3Tag for a while now. Have run into a very odd problem when doing batch editing of files: I wanted to re-categorize all the music on my NAS drive - approx. 25,000 files across 7 major music genres. I do a select, grab say 500 files, mark say 50 files and change the Genre to e.g. Classical. First batch fine - takes about 15 seconds or so for 50 files. The next 2-5 batch same thing, and then - while still working on files in the same sub-dir - all tag writing s…
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### Author:  [@BoboPagh](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/BoboPagh)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2022, 6:25pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/3-18-after-update-title-edit-is-massively-slow/58694/4 "2022-10-05T18:25:34Z")
I'll let you know as soon as I have found access to the previous version again.
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### Author:  [@BoboPagh](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/BoboPagh)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2022, 6:29pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/3-18-after-update-title-edit-is-massively-slow/58694/5 "2022-10-05T18:29:08Z")
Hi,
I do get your point about NAS, network efficiency etc. And valid, your point is.
However, before update I never had any issue - at most a couple of seconds.
And I have tried to perform the same edit function with EasyTAG and Tigo Tago, with the same files, on the same NAS. And both of these had no issues at all (I just don't like them as much as MP3Tag ...).
I will reinstall a prior version, and redo the edit, and see what happens.
Bo
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### Author:  [@BoboPagh](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/BoboPagh)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2022, 6:41pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/3-18-after-update-title-edit-is-massively-slow/58694/6 "2022-10-05T18:41:06Z")
Hi again. That was quick, so have now re-run the same edit on version 3.17:
From entering a new track titel, press enter, and ready to type in next titel takes around 1 second. That's what I was used to.
Same file, from same NAS location, on a wi-fi home network.
Large files? - well, FLAC files so in the 40-90Mb range, but even small files makes little difference.
I think somehow, somewhere a change has been made, to create this scenario.
I will remove 3.18 for now, and continue happily with 3.17
Thanks for your inputs!
Bo P
Denmark
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2022, 6:45pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/3-18-after-update-title-edit-is-massively-slow/58694/7 "2022-10-05T18:45:34Z")
I think you still have a local problem with access rights or other system configurations.
I doubt that future versions will solve your particular problem, so unless you find out what causes the delay you may be stuck with 3.17.
What was the result of checking the defender configuration?
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2022, 7:14pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/3-18-after-update-title-edit-is-massively-slow/58694/8 "2022-10-05T19:14:55Z")
> [@ohrenkino](#):
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> What was the result of checking the defender configuration?
Or any other "security software" that has still to learn that your newest Mp3tag v3.18 is not dangerous at all?
If you wait your 40 seconds between the titles in v3.18, do you see any software in your Windows Task-Manager (press CTRL + SHIFT + ESC to start it) running high on CPU or network or disc?
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### Author:  [@BoboPagh](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/BoboPagh)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2022, 7:38pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/3-18-after-update-title-edit-is-massively-slow/58694/9 "2022-10-05T19:38:40Z")
2 comments:
It works fine in 3.17, it does not in 3.18. Has anything changed at my end? No, and it still works fine in 3.17. I can switch between the two, and get 1 sec vs 40sec execution time.
Are you seriously suggesting that 3.18 is faultless, and it must be local cause at my end?
If so, 3.17 must have been bloody brilliant...
I can see no system indicators, except that 3.18 when trying to update runs at higher CPU and disk activity, but no other programs or services.
I have worked with accounting software for 35 years. In my experience, if something becomes a problem suddenly, look for changes. In this case, a new version.....
Regards - I'll stick with 3.17
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2022, 7:46pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/3-18-after-update-title-edit-is-massively-slow/58694/10 "2022-10-05T19:46:33Z")
> [@BoboPagh](#):
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> Are you seriously suggesting that 3.18 is faultless, and it must be local cause at my end?
No and yes.
3.18 will probably be not faultless and I think it is something at your end.
Fascinatingly, you refuse to investigate your protective programs which also get frequent updates, but probably in the background.
Also, it could be something with your NAS software.
How does editing work if you treat the files in a local folder instead on the NAS with both versions? Does this also lead to such delays?
But as you are someone who
> [@BoboPagh](#):
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> worked with accounting software for 35 years
you can probably narrow down the cause.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:29pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/3-18-after-update-title-edit-is-massively-slow/58694/11 "2026-02-09T12:29:56Z")