# Tag source contain more than 1000 tracks, MP3Tag has a limitation to 1000?
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-source-contain-more-than-1000-tracks-mp3tag-has-a-limitation-to-1000/57907
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [July 15, 2022, 10:46am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-source-contain-more-than-1000-tracks-mp3tag-has-a-limitation-to-1000/57907 "2022-07-15T10:46:14Z")
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### Author:  [@chiangww](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chiangww)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2022, 10:46am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-source-contain-more-than-1000-tracks-mp3tag-has-a-limitation-to-1000/57907/1 "2022-07-15T10:46:14Z")
Some big set of CDs contains lots of tracks from tag source MusicBrainz, such as "Bach The Complete Works (Edition Bachakademie)" which contains more than 3500 tracks. However, in MP3Tag function 'Tag source' MusicBrainz -\> 'list of search results' -\> 'adjust tag information', the panel just displays the first 1000 tracks, more than 1000 are gone.
The question is, how to map tags from the rest of tracks beginning No.1001, 1002 and so on to files by MP3Tag ?
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2022, 11:25am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-source-contain-more-than-1000-tracks-mp3tag-has-a-limitation-to-1000/57907/2 "2022-07-15T11:25:29Z")
> [@chiangww](#):
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> The question is, how to map tags from the rest of tracks beginning No.1001, 1002 and so on to files by MP3Tag ?
**Short answer:**
**You can't get the metadata for tracks beyond the MB API limit** currently with Mp3tag and the available Tag Sources Scripts.
Longer answer:
There is an API limit from MusicBrainz. You can read about it [here](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-musicbrainz-roon-recording-tags/56097#script-info-limitations-2).
The only thing that would work, is a so called "Pseudo release". This kind of a splitted release would have to be added at MusicBrainz first.
Currently, you can't limit the amount of tracks in Tag Sources Scripts, like tracks number 0-500, then 501-999, then 1000-1499 and so on. This would be necessary to get the tracks beyond the API limit.
The only "workaround" would be to try [Picard](https://picard.musicbrainz.org/downloads/), the official MusicBrainz tagging software.
AFAIK, such kind of paging was introduced in one of the latest builds ([v2.8](https://blog.metabrainz.org/2022/05/24/picard-2-8-released/)):
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2022, 11:36am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-source-contain-more-than-1000-tracks-mp3tag-has-a-limitation-to-1000/57907/3 "2022-07-15T11:36:46Z")
> [@chiangww](#):
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> Bach The Complete Works (Edition Bachakademie)
You speak about this 171 CD-Box with 3'544 tracks, right?
[https://musicbrainz.org/release/648cff32-4226-4daa-aef2-f1b4cda2b0db](https://musicbrainz.org/release/648cff32-4226-4daa-aef2-f1b4cda2b0db)
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2022, 12:12pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-source-contain-more-than-1000-tracks-mp3tag-has-a-limitation-to-1000/57907/4 "2022-07-15T12:12:38Z")
The built-in MusicBrainz tag source has an artificial limit of 999 tracks which can be changed via
`%APPDATA%\Mp3tag\data\sources\MusicBrainz.src` line 401
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### Author:  [@chiangww](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chiangww)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2022, 12:25pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-source-contain-more-than-1000-tracks-mp3tag-has-a-limitation-to-1000/57907/5 "2022-07-15T12:25:03Z")
> [@LyricsLover](#):
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> You speak about this 171 CD-Box with 3'544 tracks, right?
Yes! Insanely large collection...
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### Author:  [@chiangww](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chiangww)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2022, 12:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-source-contain-more-than-1000-tracks-mp3tag-has-a-limitation-to-1000/57907/6 "2022-07-15T12:27:06Z")
> [@LyricsLover](#):
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> The only "workaround" would be to try [Picard](https://picard.musicbrainz.org/downloads/), the official MusicBrainz tagging software.
> AFAIK, such kind of paging was introduced in one of the latest builds
The official MusicBrainz tagging software Picard is badly designed in UI, I do not understand the logic to operate it. MP3tag is superior.
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### Author:  [@chiangww](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chiangww)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2022, 12:33pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-source-contain-more-than-1000-tracks-mp3tag-has-a-limitation-to-1000/57907/7 "2022-07-15T12:33:50Z")
> [@Florian](#):
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> The built-in MusicBrainz tag source has an artificial limit of 999 tracks which can be changed via
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> `%APPDATA%\Mp3tag\data\sources\MusicBrainz.src` line 401
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> from
> `while " to
> `while "
### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2022, 12:54pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-source-contain-more-than-1000-tracks-mp3tag-has-a-limitation-to-1000/57907/8 "2022-07-15T12:54:34Z")
> [@chiangww](#):
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> Yes! Insanely large collection...
"[The new complete edition](https://musicbrainz.org/release/06b914aa-f4d5-49bd-9df1-0b89b046ab16)" box-set-collection from W.A. Mozart even has 200 CD's but "only" 3'335 tracks. 😉
> [@chiangww](#):
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> That solves the problem.
Please be aware that this is true for the most important metadata, like track TITLE, ALBUM, ALBUMARTIST, ASIN, BARCODE, CATALOGNUMBER, ISRC, PUBLISHER, YEAR and some more.
But you don't get more specialized metadata like RECORDINGLOCATION, RECORDINGDATE, CONDUCTOR, ENSEMBLE, SOLOIST, PERSONNEL, COMPOSER and some more (only available per recording metadata) as I wrote above.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2022, 12:54pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-source-contain-more-than-1000-tracks-mp3tag-has-a-limitation-to-1000/57907/9 "2022-08-14T12:54:53Z")
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