# Different place for the MP3Tag library possible?

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/different-place-for-the-mp3tag-library-possible/68444
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 8, 2025, 7:30pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/different-place-for-the-mp3tag-library-possible/68444 "2025-05-08T19:30:11Z")
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### Author: ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2025, 7:55pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/different-place-for-the-mp3tag-library-possible/68444/3 "2025-05-08T19:55:05Z")

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If you install a portable version, then the library is also maintained in the installation folder.  
This would mean, if I interpret your setup correctly, that you have to install MP3tag as portable version on your NAS.  
But this would mean that you are now limited to the network speed for access.  
As a reminder I would like recall this thread about the purpose and function of the library:

> [@Bibliothek funktioniert irgendwie nicht](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/bibliothek-funktioniert-irgendwie-nicht/47781):
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> Hallo Community, ich benutze MP3Tag V3.00 und bearbeite meine MP3s ausschließlich damit. Nachdem ich über mittlerweile Jahre meine Musik-Sammlung in MP3s umgewandelt habe (5 stellige Anzahl), korrigiere oder ergänze ich immer wieder mal Daten. Da beim Start von MP3Tag jedesmal das ganze Verzeichnis komplett neu eingelesen wird, dauert das leider entsprechend. Nun habe ich mal die "Bibliothek" aktiviert, diese auf meinen Musik-Ordner beschränkt, der auf einer externen USB-Festplatte liegt, die …

If you access your collection on the NAS with various MP3tag installation, then in general each installation treats the files like an individual installation.  
And a word on

> [@Alhifi](#):
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> files that I ‘manage’ with MP3TAG

Mp3tag is no collection management program but a tagging program. For the management of collection there are dedicated programs which may grant a faster access to individual files - provided, external changes are synchronized with the internal presentation in these managers. And this synchronization will probably be not much faster than MP3tag reading the files.

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