# Is there a way to remove silence at the end of files

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/is-there-a-way-to-remove-silence-at-the-end-of-files/60710
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [April 14, 2023, 2:46am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/is-there-a-way-to-remove-silence-at-the-end-of-files/60710 "2023-04-14T02:46:17Z")
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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: [April 14, 2023, 5:30am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/is-there-a-way-to-remove-silence-at-the-end-of-files/60710/2 "2023-04-14T05:30:28Z")

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MP3tag manages the padding according to its needs - and removes padding for mp3 files when re-writing the files.

Your observation that the playing time of a file changes after updating tags (only they lead to padding) should be an alarm signal in respect to the integrity of the files as any decent player does not add the tag data to the payload data.  
See here for tools to check files:

> [@How to check files for errors?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-check-files-for-errors/44633):
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> It’s required and often helps to reduce support cycles to check files for errors before filing a bug report. Symptoms of erroneous files are often missing or wrong bitrate or length audible blips or skips tags seem to be sticky and cannot be removed There are some really good tools to check the files for errors, namely MP3 Diags — identifies many different issues in MP3 files Website: [http://mp3diags.sourceforge.net](http://mp3diags.sourceforge.net) Download: [MP3 Diags - Getting MP3 Diags](http://mp3diags.sourceforge.net/010_getting_the_program.html#binWindows) If the font size in MP3 Diags is …

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