# Audio Metadata Stripper

> Remove identifying tags from an audio file before sharing. Diff view shows what was removed; the After panel re-reads the stripped output to confirm it's clean.

Canonical: https://helpers.aibrush.co/en/audio-metadata-stripper

## What it does

Drop an audio file, hit Process, get a copy with all writable metadata stripped. Embedded artwork, title, artist, album, comments, custom tags — all gone. The audio itself isn't touched.

Before/after diff appears side-by-side so you can verify the strip. The After panel runs the Metadata Viewer on the stripped output — so what you see is what you'd get if someone else loaded the file.

## How to use it

1. **Drop the file** — MP3, M4A, FLAC, Ogg — all supported.
2. **Process and verify** — Look at the After column. Empty rows = the strip succeeded.

## When to use it

### Sharing without identifying info

Voice memo with your full name in the title? Strip before sending to a colleague.

### Anonymous research dataset

Pre-anonymizing audio samples before publishing a dataset.

### Privacy hygiene

Strip everything before posting a track publicly so it can't be traced back to your DAW project.

## FAQ

### Does the audio change?

No — the strip operates on container-level tags. The PCM / encoded audio frames are unchanged.

### Can it strip steganographic markers?

No. Only declared metadata fields. Anything hidden in the audio waveform stays.