# question about Mp3/Tag Studio
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/question-about-mp3-tag-studio/5455
**Category:** Off-Topic
**Created:** [September 16, 2007, 12:04pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/question-about-mp3-tag-studio/5455 "2007-09-16T12:04:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@gottkaiser](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/gottkaiser)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2007, 12:04pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/question-about-mp3-tag-studio/5455/1 "2007-09-16T12:04:40Z")
At first, I'm a loyal user of Mp3tag. 🙂
I found this tagging program: [Mp3/Tag Studio](http://www.magnusbrading.com/mp3ts/)
The description of the program claims to have a "Super fast v2 tagging mode, which writes v2 tags to files faster than practically any other tagging program!". I found this at the feature list of the [Webpage](http://www.magnusbrading.com/mp3ts/) (second item).
My question is: Has anybody experience with that program? And is it a realistic claim?
If it is really faster maybe it could be considered to implement it somehow in Mp3tag?
Any thoughts on that?
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2007, 1:25pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/question-about-mp3-tag-studio/5455/2 "2007-09-16T13:25:00Z")
I used this program before I found Mp3tag.
First of all: Mp3/Tag Studio is NOT FREE! (19 USD).
Maybe it is a little bit faster, but I don't compare such programs with Freeware (with no Nags, no phone-home and other I-hate-it-features) Mp3tag additionally comes with great support and ongoing development.
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### Author:  [@gottkaiser](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/gottkaiser)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2007, 1:33pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/question-about-mp3-tag-studio/5455/3 "2007-09-16T13:33:21Z")
Thanks for the reply.
It was not a question of using this program. 🙂 I was just curious about this "fastes tagging" claim.
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### Author:  [@Sebastian\_Mares](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Sebastian_Mares)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2007, 6:01pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/question-about-mp3-tag-studio/5455/4 "2007-09-16T18:01:54Z")
From the help file:
> [@](#):
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> Super fast v2 tagging:
> When you write an ID3v2 tag to a file that does not have a previous v2 tag (or that has a smaller v2 tag than the one you are about to write), that whole file, including all sound data, must be rewritten to the disk. This is due to technical limitations in harddisk filesystems in combination with design issues of the ID3v2 tag, and there's nothing I (or anyone else) can do about it. The problem is that this might lead to several megabytes of data being written to the disk, even though the new tag data only consists of, say, a few hundred bytes. This in turn will of course affect the time of the write operation quite seriously. Due to this limitation, writing ID3v2 tags to files often takes much longer than writing ID3v1 tags to them. Normally that is...
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> When you activate this setting, you agree to sacrifice a very short bit of sound data (approximately 0.03 seconds) in the beginning of every file the first time you add a v2 tag to it, and in turn the operation will be just as lightning fast as writing an ID3v1 tag! There might be some reasons for why you don't want to do this in some situations (e.g. if the music of the track actually begins within the first 0.03 seconds of the mp3, but this is mostly not the case), and that's why I made it optional. But for doing ID3v2 tagging on e.g. a network drive or other slow media it is a lifesaver, I assure you. Just try it and you'll see what I mean...
Judging by that description, I imagine that the program writes the ID3v2 tag right over the audio data, therefore you end up losing some of the audio contents. I have no idea what it does to Xing or VBRI headers - maybe it corrupts them, too.