# identifying aacplus songs

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/identifying-aacplus-songs/13293
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [April 4, 2012, 10:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/identifying-aacplus-songs/13293 "2012-04-04T22:28:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![Seyss](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/3bc359/32.png) [@Seyss](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Seyss)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2012, 10:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/identifying-aacplus-songs/13293/1 "2012-04-04T22:28:34Z")

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hello all,

I'd like to identify songs in aacplus format. extension is still .aac like regular aac files.

I tried the Codec column however it is confusing since some aacplus files are shown as "MPEG-4 AAC LC ADTS" and others as "MPEG-2 AAC LC ADTS".

Thanks.

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### Author: ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2012, 6:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/identifying-aacplus-songs/13293/2 "2012-04-05T18:28:38Z")

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You could add/modify the value for a column so that it does not display "MPEG-4 AAC LC ADTS" but as "AACplus":  
$if($eql(%\_tag\_read%,'MPEG-4 AAC LC ADTS'),AACplus,%\_tag\_read%)

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### Author: ![DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/detlevd/32/123_2.png) [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2012, 5:30am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/identifying-aacplus-songs/13293/3 "2012-04-06T05:30:51Z")

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> [@Seyss](#):
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> hello all, I'd like to identify songs in aacplus format. extension is still .aac like regular aac files.  
> I tried the Codec column however it is confusing since some aacplus files are shown as "MPEG-4 AAC LC ADTS" and others as "MPEG-2 AAC LC ADTS".Thanks.

You can try to change the column definition for the column "Codec".  
To display both aacPlus versions with the same name "aacPlus" edit the field "Value" to ...

**$regexp(%\_codec%,'MPEG-2 AAC LC ADTS|MPEG-4 AAC LC ADTS','aacPlus')**

DD.20120406.0929.CEST

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### Author: ![dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/dano/32/6_2.png) [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2012, 7:14am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/identifying-aacplus-songs/13293/4 "2012-04-06T07:14:24Z")

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It seems Mp3tag cannot identify aacplus files  
AAC LC means normal aac file

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### Author: ![Seyss](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/3bc359/32.png) [@Seyss](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Seyss)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2012, 10:53am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/identifying-aacplus-songs/13293/5 "2012-04-06T10:53:50Z")

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☹ I this hard to implement? Should be a couple of IFs...

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### Author: ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/identifying-aacplus-songs/13293/6 "2026-02-09T12:23:46Z")

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