Newbie asks: Where to get metaflac and make MP3tag detect it?

[DreamyQuiet258]

Hi everyone,
Excuse my ignorance, I just learned about metaflac which I was told it could remove padding with MP3Tag, but I didn't find the link to download this tool. It seems obvious, but I genuinely can't find it. Can someone tell me where to find it? I tried to look for it on the official FLAC page and went to the download section, but there's not a specific download link provided for metaflac (maybe I'm not looking in the right place?).

And another question, how do I get MP3Tag to detect metaflac? I assume that metaflac doesn't include an installer and I'll have to move it in a specific path. Sorry, I'm not very technical about this kind of stuff and I'm very bad at following instructions.

[ohrenkino]

See this thread on how to

@DreamyQuiet258

get MP3Tag to detect metaflac

How to decrease the tagsize after deleting coverart

Something else to note: You can use metaflac.exe to remove the images themselves. No need to do it manually in Mp3tag and then run a script to remove the excess padding. --remove --block-type=PICTURE And if you wish to preserve file modification times, use: --preserve-modtime

metaflac is part of the flac codec package, so you have to download that, e.g. here:
https://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/xiph/releases/flac/

[DreamyQuiet258]

Thanks for the response, it was confusing at first, but now that became clear to me. Just one thing: Does metaflac.exe can be at whatever location, right? Is there a recommended location I can put it in?

[ohrenkino]

@DreamyQuiet258

Is there a recommended location I can put it in?

The best location would be the one which you can remember that you put it there.
So, no, there is no dedicated location.