# Feature request: action to rewrite tags from scratch

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-action-to-rewrite-tags-from-scratch/45153
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [April 15, 2019, 3:30am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-action-to-rewrite-tags-from-scratch/45153 "2019-04-15T03:30:40Z")
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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: [April 15, 2019, 1:47pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-action-to-rewrite-tags-from-scratch/45153/4 "2019-04-15T13:47:31Z")

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> [@xRussianBeautyx](#):
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> If I save the tags, these WMA "leftovers" remain. The only way to remove them is the method I explained above.

There are utilities around that check audio files, see here:

> [@How to check files for errors?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-check-files-for-errors/44633):
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> It’s required and often helps to reduce support cycles to check files for errors before filing a bug report. Symptoms of erroneous files are often missing or wrong bitrate or length audible blips or skips tags seem to be sticky and cannot be removed There are some really good tools to check the files for errors, namely MP3 Diags — identifies many different issues in MP3 files Website: [http://mp3diags.sourceforge.net](http://mp3diags.sourceforge.net) Download: [MP3 Diags - Getting MP3 Diags](http://mp3diags.sourceforge.net/010_getting_the_program.html#binWindows) If the font size in MP3 Diags is …

I would assume that you can cut a readable tag from a file so that it is held in the memory and  
then delete all further tags until there is nothing left.  
And then you paste the tag from the memory.

MP3tag handles padding on its own account.  
For flac files see

> [@How to decrease the tagsize after deleting coverart](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-decrease-the-tagsize-after-deleting-coverart/8891):
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> I just received some FLAC files that had coverart embedded. The .jpg files that were embedded were however way too big: about 4-6 MB per FLAC! MP3Tag took ages to read these huge tags in the total of 230 files, probably because of these huge tagsizes. So I deleted all coverart via the "extended tags". However, the tagsize is still indicated to be between 4 and 6 MB per FLAC, even after the deletion of all coverart ... Is there any way decrease the tagsize ? I already deleted all tags and pres…

MP3tag does not have to do anything with the encoding, just tagging.

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