# How to remove MP3 Codec?

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-remove-mp3-codec/58782>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [October 13, 2022, 4:46pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-remove-mp3-codec/58782 "2022-10-13T16:46:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Abdulaziz](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@Abdulaziz](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Abdulaziz)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2022, 4:46pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-remove-mp3-codec/58782/1 "2022-10-13T16:46:26Z")

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Hello there!

I am using the Mp3TAG app however I am not able to remove Codec info from the track, therefore youtube keeps discovering the track!

Any idea, please?

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**Author:** ![LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/c6cbf5/32.png) [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2022, 4:53pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-remove-mp3-codec/58782/2 "2022-10-13T16:53:47Z")

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What exactly do you mean with "Codec".

Could you please show us the field in a screenshot from ALT + T?

If you talk about  
 ![image](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/1/163358e34c94fc9964eb426f6a0a5b38ba1e2f5a.png) or ![image](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/5/58b85901feec017daa0b7ce05d2555e8bf3b39b4.png)

this are [technical informations](https://docs.mp3tag.de/format/#technical-information). You can not remove them.

Technical information fields begin with an underscore `%_` and are read-only.

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**Author:** ![Abdulaziz](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@Abdulaziz](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Abdulaziz)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2022, 5:11pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-remove-mp3-codec/58782/3 "2022-10-13T17:11:36Z")

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Hello,

here you go

![](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/f/fe5e563e1a16ea9f3c6e32b58b48144141628ca6.png)  
and

![](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/2/24f7401fc074835e6a97c38ce7dcbd8952f0e6e6.png)  
Regards

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**Author:** ![LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/c6cbf5/32.png) [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2022, 5:13pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-remove-mp3-codec/58782/4 "2022-10-13T17:13:53Z")

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As you can see: There are no tags to remove.

`%_codec%` is a technical information field and read-only.

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**Author:** ![Abdulaziz](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@Abdulaziz](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Abdulaziz)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2022, 5:57pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-remove-mp3-codec/58782/5 "2022-10-13T17:57:59Z")

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I see, but what do you think about why Youtube keeps founding the copyrights of the track although the tag has already been removed?

Thouths?

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**Author:** ![LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/c6cbf5/32.png) [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2022, 6:00pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-remove-mp3-codec/58782/6 "2022-10-13T18:00:42Z")

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I would guess that YT don't look at this tags at all.  
I assume that YT use some kind of acoustic fingerprinting/recognizing.

(It would be pretty ridiculous to use tags for copyright use. These tags can be altered and removed much too easy. 😇)

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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:** [October 13, 2022, 6:01pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-remove-mp3-codec/58782/7 "2022-10-13T18:01:03Z")

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> [@Abdulaziz](#):
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> Youtube keeps founding the copyrights

I think that they do some kind of analysis of the audio part and match it with an acoustic fingerprint to reduce copyright infringements.

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**Author:** ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2022, 6:01pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-remove-mp3-codec/58782/8 "2022-11-12T18:01:24Z")

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