A long time ago, two years in fact, I created this thread: [image] Native option to remove padding from FLAC files General Discussion Hi there. I can't believe MP3tag doesn't support removing the padding and an option to show how much padding a FLAC file has and a warning…

I've just released Mp3tag v3.23d with a new entry Utils → Optimize FLAC in the right-click context menu of FLAC files. This will remove the excess padding from the selected FLAC files. To display existing padding, create a column with value %_tag_size_appended%. This reports the size of the padding…

I have tried this in the past and it does not work.

I have tried this 2 minutes before and it works. Before: [Vorher] After: [Nachher]

Thanks but no thanks. I didn't come here in search of alternate solution with dependencies. I came here to ask Florian what was the status of a BUILT-IN solution. A one-click no bullock solution that will work like in Foobar2000. Using outside tools is not a built-in solution; it's a workaround. H…

Just an observation on my side: a lot of suggestions for functions for which there is something that you call [image] Lebon14: workaround have never been implemented. So I think that until the day when your suggestion becomes a function that you like better you have to live with the "work…

Look, 2 years ago I asked Florian for this and he said and I quote... [image] Native option to remove padding from FLAC files You need to get flac-1.3.2-win.zip, seems like they haven't uploaded a Windows build of latest 1.3.3. At least metaflac has no changes between the two versions. I have p…

The topic is still on the to-do-list: [image] Why does certain artwork break Windows Explorer Metadata? Support The example file has a really large embedded picture, it's 3MB which breaks Windows Explorer. If you remove it or resize it from within Mp3tag (e.g., via Adjust…

Some discussion about the empty padding in FLAC files after removing cover art has referenced this thread on the MusicBee forum. Seems the search continues for a way to recover some of this file space for those with larger libraries. Virtual TAG: View metadata padding size, possible? Vi…

It's still not a thing almost a year later. I'm sad. I still have to drop the files in Foobar after tagging to remove the padding. I never got the command-line stuff to work in MP3tag.

If forum members show that something works like in this post: [image] Re: Adding native FLAC padding column and removal General Discussion For all future reader searching for the tool definition to remove the Cover Art and padding space for FLAC files in Ctrl+O, Tools: Ad…

I have just tested the new function. Until now I've displayed padding as $div(%_tag_size%,1024) to show the KiB value. Adding 2 more columns with %_tag_size_appended% and %_tag_size_prepended% yielded this result for a test album: [grafik] After using Utils → Optimize FLAC that becomes: [grafik] …

Re: Adding native FLAC padding column and removal

General Discussion

ohrenkino March 14, 2023, 2:37pm 13

The topic is still on the to-do-list:

This post is from February 2023.
All I am saying: until it gets implemented you are stuck with that what is classified as workaround.