diff --git a/source/encoder_audio_libfdk_aac/changelog.md b/source/encoder_audio_libfdk_aac/changelog.md
index beb874859..2d4a0d362 100644
--- a/source/encoder_audio_libfdk_aac/changelog.md
+++ b/source/encoder_audio_libfdk_aac/changelog.md
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 
+**<span style="color:#56adda">0.0.5</span>**
+- add debug logger output for ENCODER value
+
 **<span style="color:#56adda">0.0.4</span>**
 - fix test stream functiojn to test tags for ENCODER value containing 'libfdk_aac'
 
diff --git a/source/encoder_audio_libfdk_aac/info.json b/source/encoder_audio_libfdk_aac/info.json
index 6cdbeca73..4d8df7c68 100644
--- a/source/encoder_audio_libfdk_aac/info.json
+++ b/source/encoder_audio_libfdk_aac/info.json
@@ -15,5 +15,5 @@
         "on_worker_process": 0
     },
     "tags": "audio,encoder,ffmpeg,library file test",
-    "version": "0.0.4"
+    "version": "0.0.5"
 }
diff --git a/source/encoder_audio_libfdk_aac/plugin.py b/source/encoder_audio_libfdk_aac/plugin.py
index e4be9a9a3..976a804f6 100644
--- a/source/encoder_audio_libfdk_aac/plugin.py
+++ b/source/encoder_audio_libfdk_aac/plugin.py
@@ -138,6 +138,8 @@ def calculate_bitrate(stream_info: dict):
 
     def test_stream_needs_processing(self, stream_info: dict):
         # Ignore streams already of the required codec_name
+        if ('tags' in stream_info and 'ENCODER' in stream_info.get('tags') and self.encoder in stream_info.get('tags')['ENCODER']):
+            logger.debug("codec name: '{}', ENCODER: '{}'".format(stream_info.get('codec_name'), stream_info.get('tags')['ENCODER']))
         if stream_info.get('codec_name').lower() in [self.codec] and
             ('tags' in stream_info and 'ENCODER' in stream_info.get('tags') and
              self.encoder in stream_info.get('tags')['ENCODER']):