The files in question are flacs. Adding cover art increases file size. Removing cover art doesn't decrease it, then what's the point of removing? :slight_smile: I had to install Mp3Tag because i couldn't make my foobar2k delete cover art at all. That alone shows my capabilities to understand things…

If you remove cover art via Mp3tag from FLAC files, Mp3tag keeps the free space as padding for future changes. If you really want to get rid of the free space you'd have to use another tool (e.g., the metaflac command line utility). Kind regards, Florian

Thanks. Its --list option finally had helped me understand what i was doing wrong. PICTURE was not a tag field name like TITLE or ARTIST, it was a whole new block in metadata :slight_smile:

Hi, This thread may be useful. Daz

How to remove cover art AND shrink file size?

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For future readers of this (old) thread, please have a look at this new Utils entry "Optimize FLAC" in the context menu for FLAC files, introduced in Mp3tag 3.23d: