# Freezing whilst using Intelligent Filename Shortening
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/freezing-whilst-using-intelligent-filename-shortening/11199
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [November 28, 2010, 4:05pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/freezing-whilst-using-intelligent-filename-shortening/11199 "2010-11-28T16:05:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Dotcom](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Dotcom)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2010, 4:05pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/freezing-whilst-using-intelligent-filename-shortening/11199/1 "2010-11-28T16:05:49Z")
I have a huge database of all my music (approx 50,000 mp3 files 😳 ) and having spent hours correcting/amending tags, album covers etc now wish to finally import them into iTunes.
However, some of these tracks now have incredibly long file names, so I wish to use the shorten file name feature to truncate them to 64 characters, with the intelligent cut option set to prevent any import errors.
However, when I run this, mp3tag seems to freeze after re-writing the tags, and if you hit abort, it then becomes unstable, and you then have to use task manager to shut down the program.
It has however re-written the file names.
I am running Win7 Pro 64bit with 8gb ram, so physical memory is not a problem, unless mp3tag is unable to effectively use it - Help!!!
I don't get error codes or debug info, so unless someone can advise where I might find this, I can't attach anything ☹
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2010, 11:16am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/freezing-whilst-using-intelligent-filename-shortening/11199/2 "2010-11-29T11:16:01Z")
> [@Dotcom](#):
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> ... mp3tag seems to freeze...
How many files do you handle each time?
I saw something similar when I ran WMP or MediaCenter at the same time as apparently the newly named files are read in by these tools.
Also, when MP3tag is handling a huge number of files in one go, refreshing the file list with the new files names take a little time.
Does the problem occur if you do it e.g. artist by artist (with just a couple of files)?
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### Author:  [@Dotcom](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Dotcom)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2010, 9:27am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/freezing-whilst-using-intelligent-filename-shortening/11199/3 "2010-12-01T09:27:59Z")
> [@ohrenkino](#):
>
> How many files do you handle each time?
> I saw something similar when I ran WMP or MediaCenter at the same time as apparently the newly named files are read in by these tools.
> Also, when MP3tag is handling a huge number of files in one go, refreshing the file list with the new files names take a little time.
>
> Does the problem occur if you do it e.g. artist by artist (with just a couple of files)?
I was trying to rename all the files in one hit (53,000 of them), but nothing else had access to them, as I work on a back up copy of my music files.
oddly, it seems to find those files that needs renaming (in my case 300 of them), completes that then freezes - so I could just terminate the mp3tag process and reload the database again - bit of a pain though ☹
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:22pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/freezing-whilst-using-intelligent-filename-shortening/11199/4 "2026-02-09T12:22:43Z")