One track on an album getting incorrect metadata

[howllor 40]

I've got a problem where one track on a 6 track album won't get the correct metadata. The embedded tags are all identical to the rest of the tracks that do get identified correctly. I've done the thing of removing the folder from the filesystem, refreshing the library, putting the folder back, and refreshing the library again, to flush out any old metadata, but with no success.

Here is a direct link to the release on MusicBrainz
https://musicbrainz.org/release/6a85c9e9-0ef5-4a13-a42e-0c42457b3120

Here are screenshots of the embedded tags of two tracks. The Jack Beats remix gets identified correctly, the James Yuill remix doesn't.

 

When they get imported into Emby, the James Yuill remix doesn't get put onto the same album as the rest, it's treated as a separate album:

 

When looking at the metadata that Emby has pulled, it looks like this. The first screenshot is the James Yuill remix, the second is from one of the tracks identifying correctly. As you can tell, the MusicBrainz IDs are somehow doubled. Even after manually editing the metadata in Emby to match the James Yuill remix to the others, it still isn't put in the album with the other tracks. Removing identification and redoing identification does nothing to fix it either.

 

Here is a server log of me removing the folder from the library, rescanning, adding it back in, and rescanning again. Server version is 4.9.5.0, running in Docker on ElementaryOS. Please advise.

embyserver(1).txt

Edited Monday at 12:28 PM by howllor
Added server version and OS.

[howllor 40]

Oh and here are the metadata settings for this library. But this is the only album I've ever experienced any problem with. Settings are also to read from and write to nfo 

[howllor 40]

Nobody?

[Luke 42731]

HI, it's due to the differences of embedded musicbrainz album ids on the tracks.

[howllor 40]

26 minutes ago, Luke said:

HI, it's due to the differences of embedded musicbrainz album ids on the tracks.

Look again. They're literally the same:

On 7/13/2026 at 2:14 PM, howllor said:

Here are screenshots of the embedded tags of two tracks. The Jack Beats remix gets identified correctly, the James Yuill remix doesn't.

 

 

[Luke 42731]

but not based on what came out of ffprobe, so there is probably other data in there that your tagging application is not showing you.

[Luke 42731]

I'm assuming your metadata editor screenshots are at the track level and not the album although I can't tell for sure.

[howllor 40]

15 minutes ago, Luke said:

but not based on what came out of ffprobe, so there is probably other data in there that your tagging application is not showing you.

That's so weird. I'll try some other software and see what I can shake out then.

15 minutes ago, Luke said:

I'm assuming your metadata editor screenshots are at the track level and not the album although I can't tell for sure.

Yeah it's on the track level. I doubled checked the album level now in emby and it shows the same issue with the IDs "doubled" on the one with the James Yuill remix

[Luke 42731]

The upcoming 4.10 release will no longer group on those ids and will just look at artist names, so hopefully that will help make it easier.

[howllor 40]

16 hours ago, Luke said:

but not based on what came out of ffprobe, so there is probably other data in there that your tagging application is not showing you.

I've now checked the tags in every single piece of software I can find (musicbrainz picard, NTag, Kid3, Puddletag) and none of them display any problems with the musicbrainz tags. I don't know what to do. Could ffprobe be incorrect?

[howllor 40]

solved it by making brand new files, so whatever junk tags were hidden somewhere got purged.