# Removing cover art to save space ?

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-cover-art-to-save-space/12797
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [December 10, 2011, 7:11pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-cover-art-to-save-space/12797 "2011-12-10T19:11:06Z")
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### Author: ![ryerman](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ryerman/32/5285_2.png) [@ryerman](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ryerman)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2011, 3:17am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-cover-art-to-save-space/12797/2 "2011-12-11T03:17:02Z")

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> [@Gerd74](#):
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> .... unfortunatelly after MP3Tag removed to cover art from them all, there is no size reduction at all, not a single byte ? 😳
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> What am I doing wrong please ?

Probably nothing. See [here](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/8891/1).  
Maybe re-encoding after removing the tags would reduce the size.  
But consider this:  
If the average FLAC file is 22 MB and contains a 220 KB art tag then you would have to remove the tags from approximately 100 files in order to create space for 1 new FLAC file. Is it worth whatever effort is required? Of course, the answer is different for everybody. 🙂  
Jim

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