# Remove padding for tag

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-padding-for-tag/3183
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [April 14, 2006, 3:22am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-padding-for-tag/3183 "2006-04-14T03:22:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![drxray](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@drxray](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/drxray)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2006, 3:22am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-padding-for-tag/3183/1 "2006-04-14T03:22:46Z")

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Ok here i go with the noob question

I need to remove padding After doing some reading, I think when you remove all tags the padding is removed. Is the correct? I have to remove padding for to import mp3's to a RDS phantom(old dos radio station automation sever). Don't care about tags at all due to most is for radio ad's. thanks

drx

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### Author: ![dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/dano/32/6_2.png) [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2006, 7:26am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-padding-for-tag/3183/2 "2006-04-14T07:26:12Z")

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If you delete the ID3v2 tag, its padding is also removed.  
Go to Options \> Tags \> Mpeg and choose the tag types you want to delete and then just use the ![:mt_delete:](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/1X/f8cb09f7d5897904a6009038a284a45dd782a67f.png ":mt\_delete:") button.

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### Author: ![molnart](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/molnart/32/121_2.png) [@molnart](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/molnart)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2006, 5:49pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-padding-for-tag/3183/3 "2006-05-16T17:49:29Z")

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would it be possible to add information about the actual tag/padding size into the propertities panel? i like to keep track of my tag size, and if a tag is greater than 20 kb i better re-tag the whole thing for better compatibility

btw. i've read somewhere that mp3tag does a padding that fits exactly into the file system's cluster size. Does this mean, that on an old FAT16 filesystem even a 32k large padding could be done ? ![:unsure:](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/1X/cfaeba84fe6704387c5b34dfdd8172bd51b6f533.gif ":unsure:")

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### Author: ![dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/dano/32/6_2.png) [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2006, 7:03pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-padding-for-tag/3183/4 "2006-05-16T19:03:28Z")

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You can add a new column with the tag sizes, the fields can be found in the help file.

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> btw. i've read somewhere that mp3tag does a padding that fits exactly into the file system's cluster size. Does this mean, that on an old FAT16 filesystem even a 32k large padding could be done ?

That information is outdated.  
[ID3v2 padding in version 2.35m](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/3104/1)  
BTW the padding behaviour is the same as in foobar 0.9.1