# Metadata size management?
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/metadata-size-management/59751
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [January 21, 2023, 1:24am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/metadata-size-management/59751 "2023-01-21T01:24:25Z")
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### Author:  [@arficus](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/arficus)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2023, 1:24am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/metadata-size-management/59751/1 "2023-01-21T01:24:25Z")
For years, when editing previously tagged FLAC files, if attached album art seemed very large (say over 750kB), I would remove it and replace with smaller image, perhaps around 50kB (via mp3tag). Imagine my shock when I recently discovered this has no effect on file size (yes, I'm a noob). I'd suppose there is a command line option to set metadata size at time of encoding? Can metadata allotment be managed after the fact, or is re-encoding necessary?
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### Author:  [@MotleyG](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/MotleyG)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2023, 2:39am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/metadata-size-management/59751/2 "2023-01-21T02:39:04Z")
See this thread for a similar conversation.
> [@How to remove cover art AND shrink file size?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-remove-cover-art-and-shrink-file-size/9558/3):
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> 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
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2023, 2:39am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/metadata-size-management/59751/3 "2023-02-20T02:39:17Z")
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