I'm trying to update some tags on videos on my fileserver - each write operation is taking over two minutes. I'm running v3.18. Does MP3Tag download the file and write it back? Even so, it seems to be taking a long time. Music files, on the same server, are updated instantaneously - although of …

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Remember that sometimes the tags are written at the end of the file. There are ways to make them “streaming”-friendly by moving it to the beginning. It helps in updating as well as long as you don’t extend beyond the allocated space.

depends little bit on reading/writing blocksize, maybe florian could answer that. Specialy on network, small blocks can decrease writing performance.

It's usually the files that need to be rewritten via a temporary file that cause slow writing operations. This happens when reserved space for metadata changes is not sufficiently large enough to hold the addition (e.g., when adding cover art). In this case, the whole file content needs to be trans…

I guess new temporary file is written on network (location of original file) and renamed from .tmp to .whateverextensionis and the end of process. But my question was the following: Wenn you are rebuild tag do you rebuild tag directly on filestream (causing many single small file i/o operations…

[image] MP3Freak_Peter: I guess new temporary file is written on network (location of original file) and renamed from .tmp to .whateverextensionis and the end of process. Yes, I'm using whatever GetTempFileName() returns for the given file name. If it's on a network share, Mp3tag has to read …

Very slow writing tags to video files on fileserver

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