AcousticID matching up an MP3 with the wrong release entirely. Why?

First: Do you talk about AcoustID? There is no such thing like AcousticID.

Then: Someone has to initially send such an AcoustID (or more exactly: a fingerprint) for a specific song with some metadata to the AcoustID-Server. From this moment, many other users can make a lookup with the same AcoustID and get back the previously submitted metadata.

If someone would transmit WRONG metadata for a song, it could happen that you get this wrong data back for your song. There are several threads how you can fix such situations.

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