# max file limit

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/max-file-limit/9870
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [February 10, 2010, 3:17pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/max-file-limit/9870 "2010-02-10T15:17:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![atxgti](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/9f8e36/32.png) [@atxgti](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/atxgti)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2010, 3:17pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/max-file-limit/9870/1 "2010-02-10T15:17:45Z")

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I've searched quite a while and cannot find any info on scalability or max file limit. My collection got slightly messed up and i need to do a massive tag--\>filename conversion, and removal and rewrite of all tag info.  
I don't want to completely crash the system and then not know what actually got changed if it's too many files, which i assume but hopefully i'm wrong and it can take a very large number. i'm somewhere in the range of about 22000 audio files. is this too many for mp3 tag to handle?

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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: [February 10, 2010, 4:51pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/max-file-limit/9870/2 "2010-02-10T16:51:02Z")

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> [@atxgti](#):
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> is this too many for mp3 tag to handle?

No.

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### Author: ![atxgti](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/9f8e36/32.png) [@atxgti](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/atxgti)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2010, 4:47pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/max-file-limit/9870/3 "2010-02-11T16:47:30Z")

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> [@ohrenkino](#):
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> No.

thanks! any idea what that max is that it can handle at once?

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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: [February 11, 2010, 7:44pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/max-file-limit/9870/4 "2010-02-11T19:44:04Z")

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> [@atxgti](#):
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> thanks! any idea what that max is that it can handle at once?

well, i've sucessfully loaded more than 50000 tracks (almost 60000) so I guess it is a question of available memory or one of the magic computer number like 65536. But honestly: I don't know. I can only vouch for that the 20000 of your collection are within safe boundaries.

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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: [February 9, 2026, 12:22pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/max-file-limit/9870/5 "2026-02-09T12:22:10Z")

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