Thanks for the explanation! :) I didn't quite understand why someone would choose to implement tagging that potentially uses extra disk space, but it makes some sense now. If others are looking for a way to remove the extra padding from their FLAC files' metadata -- after removing artwork from the ...

I've begun embedding artwork in my FLAC files in Media Monkey and, as expected, the FLAC file size will grow to include the artwork's file size. But what I didn't expect is that upon removing the embedded artwork from a FLAC file, the FLAC file size remains the same as it did when the artwork was ...