# Editing musicbrainz.src
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/editing-musicbrainz-src/70183
**Category:** Web Sources Discussion
**Created:** [November 17, 2025, 6:16pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/editing-musicbrainz-src/70183 "2025-11-17T18:16:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@ngordon](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ngordon)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2025, 6:16pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/editing-musicbrainz-src/70183/1 "2025-11-17T18:16:39Z")
Is it ok to edit musicbrainz.src file ?
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2025, 6:33pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/editing-musicbrainz-src/70183/2 "2025-11-17T18:33:50Z")
Yes, absolutely. If you intent to share it, please make sure you have the capacity of maintaining it.
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### Author:  [@ngordon](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ngordon)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2025, 6:53pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/editing-musicbrainz-src/70183/3 "2025-11-17T18:53:37Z")
I am not going to share it.
I usually get tags from musicbrainz using mp3tag. Then I have action group which I execute after tags are loaded. This action group removes some tags which I dont need and then also rename some other tags. I just thought that maybe it would be better idea to change the src file so that tags are written with names I want the first place.
I just wonder if modifying this file is not recommended for some reason. Or if it is overwritten when istalling new version.
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2025, 6:59pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/editing-musicbrainz-src/70183/4 "2025-11-17T18:59:24Z")
Yes, it gets overwritten on updates, so just use a dedicated name for the file.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2025, 7:00pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/editing-musicbrainz-src/70183/5 "2025-12-17T19:00:16Z")
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