Christoph Reiter

> > Exposing the metadata size would be possible I guess, but I'm wondering how you would use it? > > This would help to understand the size of the...

> This would be useful for calculating average bitrate of audio data vs. audio+tags You can already get the overhead by doing `filesize - (bitrate * audio length)` > Are...

Sorry for the late response. Could you describe in which scenario this would be used and how?

thanks

_Original comment by_ **Christoph Reiter (Bitbucket: [lazka](http://bitbucket.org/lazka), GitHub: [lazka](http://github.com/lazka))**: --- mutagen can't read cue sheet files. It can only read/write flac cue sheet block [0] [0] https://xiph.org/flac/format.html#metadata_block_cuesheet

_Original comment by_ **Daniel Plachotich (Bitbucket: [danpla](http://bitbucket.org/danpla), GitHub: [danpla](http://github.com/danpla))**: --- This improvement is primarily for audio integrity. Padding in ID3 and FLAC added especially for this purpose, i.e. don't rewrite...

_Original comment by_ **Christoph Reiter (Bitbucket: [lazka](http://bitbucket.org/lazka), GitHub: [lazka](http://github.com/lazka))**: --- > Like any other software (and Mutagen in particular) does — nothing. The audio is not corrupted, so this is...

_Original comment by_ **Daniel Plachotich (Bitbucket: [danpla](http://bitbucket.org/danpla), GitHub: [danpla](http://github.com/danpla))**: --- > What if writing fails in the middle of this? Like any other software (and Mutagen in particular) does —...

_Original comment by_ **Christoph Reiter (Bitbucket: [lazka](http://bitbucket.org/lazka), GitHub: [lazka](http://github.com/lazka))**: --- > As I mentioned before, mutagen will behave as now in case of suitable amount of padding, i.e. tags will...

_Original comment by_ **Daniel Plachotich (Bitbucket: [danpla](http://bitbucket.org/danpla), GitHub: [danpla](http://github.com/danpla))**: --- As I mentioned before, mutagen will behave as now in case of suitable amount of padding, i.e. tags will written...