# Ogg Vorbis
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ogg-vorbis/7066
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [July 23, 2008, 5:45am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ogg-vorbis/7066 "2008-07-23T05:45:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@JJ\_Johnson](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/JJ_Johnson)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2008, 5:45am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ogg-vorbis/7066/1 "2008-07-23T05:45:59Z")
I just started working with some Ogg Vorbis files that were transcoded from Flace using oggenc2.exe. Modifying the tags these files with Mp3tag is several times slower than modifying comparable Flac and mp3 files that I've worked with. According to the oggence2 docs, when the files are transcoded to ogg the tags are being padded with 1k of space.
In a hex editor, before modifying the files with Mp3tag, I can easily see that the vorbis comments are near the beginning of the file and are followed by a very large block of 00 bytes.
All I'm doing is deleting or adding a few fields. Why is Mp3tag so slow in tagging these files?
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2008, 8:43am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ogg-vorbis/7066/2 "2008-07-23T08:43:27Z")
Padding is not supported on ogg files by Mp3tag.
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### Author:  [@JJ\_Johnson](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/JJ_Johnson)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2008, 2:37pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ogg-vorbis/7066/3 "2008-07-23T14:37:46Z")
Ugh.
I should have looked at the files in the hex editor after Mp3tag got done with them. So Mp3tag is rewriting the files and throwing away the padding.
Is there an enhancement request on file for maintaining the padding so that the files don't need to be rewritten? Aren't these tags very much like those used in Flac files?
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### Author:  [@JJ\_Johnson](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/JJ_Johnson)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2008, 12:23am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ogg-vorbis/7066/4 "2008-07-25T00:23:23Z")
> [@JJ Johnson](#):
>
> Is there an enhancement request on file for maintaining the padding so that the files don't need to be rewritten? Aren't these tags very much like those used in Flac files?
Anybody? Is this a planned enhancement?
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2008, 3:43pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ogg-vorbis/7066/5 "2008-07-25T15:43:43Z")
> [@JJ Johnson](#):
>
> Anybody? Is this a planned enhancement?
Yes. Probably in the next version.
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2008, 6:44am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ogg-vorbis/7066/6 "2008-07-26T06:44:29Z")
The latest [Development Build](http://developer.mp3tag.de) supports padding for Ogg Vorbis.
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### Author:  [@JJ\_Johnson](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/JJ_Johnson)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2008, 7:35pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ogg-vorbis/7066/7 "2008-07-26T19:35:58Z")
Once again... Thank you Florian.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ogg-vorbis/7066/8 "2026-02-09T12:21:03Z")