# How to remove excessive padding from FLAC files?

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-remove-excessive-padding-from-flac-files/11033
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 30, 2010, 10:32pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-remove-excessive-padding-from-flac-files/11033 "2010-10-30T22:32:53Z")
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### Author: ![JJ\_Johnson](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/jj_johnson/32/67_2.png) [@JJ\_Johnson](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/JJ_Johnson)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2010, 10:32pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-remove-excessive-padding-from-flac-files/11033/1 "2010-10-30T22:32:53Z")

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Mp3tag doesn't rewrite a FLAC file when removing artwork. It just turns it into (or adds to, I'm not certain how it works) a padding metadata block. If the artwork was very large this leaves a very large amount of unused space within the file. An album that I just downloaded had 370kB cover images embedded in each file. I've removed them and now I have more than 380kB of padding in every file.

How can I remove this padding and control the amount of padding in a FLAC file?

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