# What is the \*best\* tag for .flac file?
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/what-is-the-best-tag-for-flac-file/5432
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [September 12, 2007, 1:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/what-is-the-best-tag-for-flac-file/5432 "2007-09-12T13:23:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@trainwreck](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/trainwreck)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2007, 1:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/what-is-the-best-tag-for-flac-file/5432/1 "2007-09-12T13:23:18Z")
I've been trying to research the different tag types that support .flac files now that I've ripped my 5000 track library to .flac format. My current tag type appears to be FLAC but was wondering about switching to the APEv2 format.
Thoughts?
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### Author:  [@Sebastian\_Mares](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Sebastian_Mares)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2007, 1:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/what-is-the-best-tag-for-flac-file/5432/2 "2007-09-12T13:24:31Z")
FLAC supports Vorbis Comments only.
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### Author:  [@trainwreck](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/trainwreck)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2007, 3:04pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/what-is-the-best-tag-for-flac-file/5432/3 "2007-09-12T15:04:59Z")
Are there any limitations to this over other tag formats like Ape?
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### Author:  [@Sebastian\_Mares](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Sebastian_Mares)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2007, 8:05pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/what-is-the-best-tag-for-flac-file/5432/4 "2007-09-12T20:05:34Z")
The only downside I see is that Vorbis Comments are not written at the end of the file - at least as far as I know. Therefore, if there is not enough padding and you want to tag a very large file (a complete audio CD image for example), it is possible that tagging will take much longer than WavPack+APEv2 for example.