# Writing Tag Data Speed
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/writing-tag-data-speed/67541
**Category:** Mac
**Created:** [February 17, 2025, 11:16pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/writing-tag-data-speed/67541 "2025-02-17T23:16:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@ValRomeo](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ValRomeo)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2025, 11:16pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/writing-tag-data-speed/67541/1 "2025-02-17T23:16:24Z")
Is there a way to speed up the tag writing? When I search and download the tag data it takes several minutes. It is faster when the file is stored locally, but I am looking for just any tips. Like is it possible to match all the files in my window before writing the data? Then I could let it do its thing in the background vs checking on it repeatedly to see if it's finished with one file.
Thanks!
Edit\* Sorry to mention. I'm running MacOS
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### Author:  [@Reason](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Reason)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2025, 5:53am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/writing-tag-data-speed/67541/2 "2025-02-18T05:53:31Z")
That doesn't sound normal. I know that excluding mp3tag from Windows antimalware will significantly speed up indexing the files when a directory is opened, but not sure if it would help write operations. But you could try it.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2025, 6:19am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/writing-tag-data-speed/67541/3 "2025-02-18T06:19:26Z")
It looks to me like it still has the same root cause as this thread:
> [@Can you pause Save Changes until you are ready?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/can-you-pause-save-changes-until-you-are-ready/61011):
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> I am editing a lot of files on my NAS and it is time consuming to update a title and wait for the change to save then the next and so on. Is there a way to essentially pause any saves until i'm ready. I could go through and make all my changes, then when i'm ready push the changes to the files. Then I could work on other things, or even walk away from my computer while the changes are saved.
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### Author:  [@Quaraxkad](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Quaraxkad)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2025, 7:29am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/writing-tag-data-speed/67541/4 "2025-02-18T07:29:40Z")
Are your search results including large size cover images? That can dramatically increase write times.
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### Author:  [@ValRomeo](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ValRomeo)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2025, 6:35pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/writing-tag-data-speed/67541/5 "2025-02-18T18:35:49Z")
Thanks. Sorry i forgot to include in my post but i'm running MacOS
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### Author:  [@ValRomeo](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ValRomeo)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2025, 6:41pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/writing-tag-data-speed/67541/6 "2025-02-18T18:41:18Z")
It's searching audible and does include album covers. I just searched again for one audiobook and the image is 1000x1000 and 209kb.