# How to decrease the tagsize after deleting coverart

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-decrease-the-tagsize-after-deleting-coverart/8891
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**Created:** [September 4, 2009, 1:41pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-decrease-the-tagsize-after-deleting-coverart/8891 "2009-09-04T13:41:38Z")
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### Author: ![Lupercus](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/lupercus/32/215_2.png) [@Lupercus](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Lupercus)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2009, 1:41pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-decrease-the-tagsize-after-deleting-coverart/8891/1 "2009-09-04T13:41:38Z")

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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 pressed "undo", without any result.

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