# Cut redundant tag update

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cut-redundant-tag-update/4064
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [November 15, 2006, 5:15pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cut-redundant-tag-update/4064 "2006-11-15T17:15:44Z")
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### Author: ![chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chrisjj)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2006, 5:15pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cut-redundant-tag-update/4064/1 "2006-11-15T17:15:44Z")

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mp3tag's file list ENTER and SHIFT-ENTER currently write unchanged tag values to the files. This touches the files, causes an error if the file is unwritable (e.g. playing), prompts if the file is RO, and greatly slows down operation - all needlessly.

It would be great if mp3tag skipped the tag write for known non-changed tag values such as in the above case.

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### Author: ![noroom](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/noroom/32/132_2.png) [@noroom](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/noroom)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2006, 9:24am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cut-redundant-tag-update/4064/2 "2006-11-16T09:24:18Z")

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I agree! This has happened to me a couple of times too. Even if you're only looking at the Extended Tags window, and you close it by clicking "OK", it will write the tag information to the songs, even though nothing has been changed.