Hello together,
by MP3TAG I can tag AAC files. If I playback these files artist and track are set to "unknown". So what to do? In settings most is set to ID3v2 (UTF-16), but there is no extra section for AAC, only MPEG...
Any suggestions?
Regards
Where exactly do you see "unknown"? In the Windows File Explorer?
In (which) player software?
Could you please show us a screenshot?
Thanks for the player screenshot.
Please show us one more screenshot from Alt + T from the same first AAC track in Mp3tag.
As you can see from the screenshot, the metadata is still present inside your file.
You can now carry out a simple test for your AAC track:
Just change the ARTIST content from
Bill Ramsey, The Jay Five
to
Bill and Jay
save it and let us see what your player is showing.
If you still see
An Unknown Quantity - Bill Ramsey,...
your player is not reading the changed metadata from your AAC track.
Perhaps it's using the file name instead?
As an aside, metadata support for AAC is non-standardized and usually not supported everywhere. One way to alleviate this would be to warp the AAC into an MP4 container, which has good metadata support.
ffmpeg -i input.aac -c:a copy output.m4a