# Remove ID3v2 if ID3v1 not too small

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-id3v2-if-id3v1-not-too-small/3339
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 20, 2006, 8:11am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-id3v2-if-id3v1-not-too-small/3339 "2006-05-20T08:11:09Z")
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### Author: ![ViX](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/a88e4f/32.png) [@ViX](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ViX)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2006, 8:11am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-id3v2-if-id3v1-not-too-small/3339/1 "2006-05-20T08:11:09Z")

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Is it possible to remove ID3v2-tags if all data fits to ID3v1-tags? (But if v1 isn't enough keep v2.)

Why I want to do this? Because my MP3 player doesn't support v2-tags so those tags are just useless waste of space.

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### Author: ![Sebastian\_Mares](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/sebastian_mares/32/9285_2.png) [@Sebastian\_Mares](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Sebastian_Mares)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2006, 8:23am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-id3v2-if-id3v1-not-too-small/3339/2 "2006-05-20T08:23:28Z")

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You can activate writing of ID3v2 tags when ID3v1 is too small and then cut and paste the tags. Maybe removing the tags and undoing the last action works, too, but I am not 100% sure.

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### Author: ![ViX](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/a88e4f/32.png) [@ViX](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ViX)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2006, 9:52am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-id3v2-if-id3v1-not-too-small/3339/3 "2006-05-20T09:52:26Z")

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> [@](#):
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> ...cut and paste...
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> \<{POST\_SNAPBACK}\>

Yep!  
That seems to work (at least somehow), but thats SOOOOOOO slow.

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### Author: ![Sebastian\_Mares](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/sebastian_mares/32/9285_2.png) [@Sebastian\_Mares](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Sebastian_Mares)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2006, 4:04pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-id3v2-if-id3v1-not-too-small/3339/4 "2006-05-20T16:04:36Z")

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Well, ID3v2 is removed which causes the whole file to be rewritten (caused by the way ID3v2 was designed - it is placed at the beginning of the file) and when pasting back, some files might have to be rewritten a second time if ID3v2 is added again.

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### Author: ![ViX](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/a88e4f/32.png) [@ViX](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ViX)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2006, 4:45pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-id3v2-if-id3v1-not-too-small/3339/5 "2006-05-20T16:45:21Z")

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Now I have cut & pasted half day... If track number with leading zero (for ex. 05) that cut & paste doesn't work.

Much faster is to adjust Title & Artist & Album columns to 'correct' lenght and just remove v2 tags.

Just a thought... Some little test like

```
if (len(%artist%)<XXX && len(%title%)<XXX && len(%album%)<XXX) then remove ID3v2

```

Could something like that be done?

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### Author: ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-id3v2-if-id3v1-not-too-small/3339/6 "2026-02-09T12:19:45Z")

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