# Writing tags has become unusably slow **URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/writing-tags-has-become-unusably-slow/63966 **Category:** Support **Created:** [March 2, 2024, 7:58pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/writing-tags-has-become-unusably-slow/63966 "2024-03-02T19:58:49Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 2
### Author: ![LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/c6cbf5/32.png) [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover) #### Post date: [March 2, 2024, 8:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/writing-tags-has-become-unusably-slow/63966/2 "2024-03-02T20:21:50Z")
Where are your files located? Locally? On a NAS? External USB-HDD? What kind of tracks do you use? MP3? FLAC? WAV? If you use FLAC files, it could be that one of the latest Mp3tag changes could be the reason: `[2024-01-23] CHG: optimization function for FLAC files now preserves a small padding block to increase performance for possible tag modifications. > [@Re: Adding native FLAC padding column and removal](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/60372): > > A long time ago, two years in fact, I created this thread: I had asked for something to be added in MP3tag: to be able to see and remove padding from FLAC files natively within MP3tag. As you know, adding a cover art to FLAC files creates the necessary space within the file to accomodate it. However, what you may not know, removing the cover art does NOT remove the extra space that the cover art needed. You need to use metaflac.exe to sanitize the tags. So, I would like to ask Florian where … --- _[View the full topic](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/writing-tags-has-become-unusably-slow/63966)._