# Remove all tags except album art and... **URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-all-tags-except-album-art-and/12133 **Category:** Support **Created:** [June 11, 2011, 1:08am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-all-tags-except-album-art-and/12133 "2011-06-11T01:08:25Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 16
### Author: ![DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/detlevd/32/123_2.png) [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD) #### Post date: [June 12, 2011, 1:43pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-all-tags-except-album-art-and/12133/16 "2011-06-12T13:43:09Z")
> [@pyro](#): > > that method also does not seem to remove the replaygain\_track\_gain im assuming because mp3tag is not designed to modify the headers. ... Did you really try it out to remove all the **Tag Types** ID3v1, ID3v2, APE from the music file? If so, then you will be left alone with the music data only. You will not see any tag-field data in Mp3tag's dialog "Extended Tags...". Because replaygain data are never stored in the mp3 header area (I never heard anything about this ...), there will be no extra data anymore in the music file after removing all the entire **Tag Types**! Sometimes, when bad things have been going on before to the file, and different Tag Types have been stacked multiple on to each other, then the process of removing the Tag Types has to be applied repeatedly. At end Mp3tag displays an empty field in the list view column "TagRead (TagTypes)". > [@](#): > > ... although overall the first method posted by JJ Johnson seems to be the most efficient and easiest. thanks for the help everyone i guess ill have to live with the replaygain\_track\_gain being there for now. JJ Johnson's proposal from above does not remove the Tag Types, but only the tag-fields. This might leave a possible bad structured Tag-Type stack as is - and the music file will stay corrupted as is. DD.20110612.1744.CEST Edit. It is not correct, that I never heard about technical data in the mp3 header, read there ... [show LAME Encoder settings](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/9014/5) DD.20110614.1111.CEST --- _[View the full topic](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-all-tags-except-album-art-and/12133)._