# Embedded Album Art in AAC Tags
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/embedded-album-art-in-aac-tags/6975
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [June 26, 2008, 2:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/embedded-album-art-in-aac-tags/6975 "2008-06-26T14:24:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@drbeachboy](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/drbeachboy)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2008, 2:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/embedded-album-art-in-aac-tags/6975/1 "2008-06-26T14:24:49Z")
Hi Florian,
My m4a files are encoded by Nero, using Mp3tag 2.41a to embed the front and back album art. All album art shows as "Front Cover". If I try to change it, the change shows in the window, but as I soon I press save, it reverts back to "Front Cover". Is this expected behavior? Embedding works fine with my FLAC & MP3 files.
Thanks,
Dirk
Edit: Apologies for not posting in "Bug" forum. I thought that was where I was at until after pressing the post button. 😉
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2008, 10:24am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/embedded-album-art-in-aac-tags/6975/2 "2008-06-28T10:24:04Z")
MP4 only supports "Front cover" and "Back cover" to my knowledge. I'll add support for "Back cover" to the next release.
Kind regards,
Florian
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2008, 6:42am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/embedded-album-art-in-aac-tags/6975/3 "2008-07-26T06:42:02Z")
[Added](http://developer.mp3tag.de).
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### Author:  [@drbeachboy](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/drbeachboy)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2008, 11:56am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/embedded-album-art-in-aac-tags/6975/4 "2008-07-26T11:56:59Z")
Hi Florian, Thank you for adding the back cover, but I just tried it and I'm getting 2 front covers. After adding, if I try to change to "Back Cover" and save, it still shows both as "Front Cover".
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### Author:  [@drbeachboy](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/drbeachboy)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2008, 4:32pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/embedded-album-art-in-aac-tags/6975/5 "2008-08-04T16:32:14Z")
I've tried 2.41b on 3 different computers and I cannot change a second image to anything other than "Front Cover" on any AAC (m4a) files. Can anyone else confirm this? Thanks!
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2008, 12:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/embedded-album-art-in-aac-tags/6975/6 "2008-08-06T12:20:08Z")
I think it's simply not possible with standard iTunes-style MPEG-4 tags. Maybe Nero has invented some own cover types, but this is beyond my knowledge.
If you send me an example file, I can have a look at this.
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### Author:  [@drbeachboy](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/drbeachboy)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2008, 3:59pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/embedded-album-art-in-aac-tags/6975/7 "2008-08-06T15:59:40Z")
NeroAacTag states front & back image types. While "front" works as expected, the "back" type shows in mp3tag as "Other".
Clarification: I used neroaactag to add the back cover artwork in the file, then reviewed it in mp3tag.
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### Author:  [@drbeachboy](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/drbeachboy)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2008, 4:34pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/embedded-album-art-in-aac-tags/6975/8 "2008-08-06T16:34:58Z")
Here is what NeroAacTag says about the covers.
```
C:\foobar2000\Codecs>neroaactag "07 surfin'.m4a" -list-covers
*************************************************************
* *
* Nero Digital Audio Reference MPEG-4 & 3GPP Audio Tagger *
* Copyright 2007 Nero AG *
* All Rights Reserved Worldwide *
* *
* Package build date: Aug 6 2007 *
* *
*************************************************************
Processing file: "07 surfin'.m4a"
Cover art entry list:
front cover
back cover
End of cover art entries.
No changes made to the file.Also, foobar2000 shows the image as "Back", while mp3tag shows it as "Other".
```
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2008, 4:51pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/embedded-album-art-in-aac-tags/6975/9 "2008-08-06T16:51:13Z")
OK, this is indeed something specific to Nero Digital MP4 tags.
I'll dive into it...
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### Author:  [@drbeachboy](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/drbeachboy)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2008, 2:10pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/embedded-album-art-in-aac-tags/6975/10 "2008-09-28T14:10:14Z")
Hi Florian,
Thank you for fixing the Back Cover issue in MP4 files. It works perfectly in version 2.41c.
Regards,
Dirk
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2008, 4:04pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/embedded-album-art-in-aac-tags/6975/11 "2008-09-28T16:04:01Z")
No problem, glad that it works now.
Florian
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2025, 11:13am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/embedded-album-art-in-aac-tags/6975/12 "2025-11-10T11:13:10Z")
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