How does ListenBrainz match songs to the MusicBrainz database?

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I’m scrobbling listens from my navidrome server to ListenBrainz and they keep getting mismatched. One example is this:

{
  "playing_now": true,
  "track_metadata": {
    "additional_info": {
      "artist_mbids": [],
      "artist_names": [
        "西木康智"
      ],
      "duration_ms": 206150,
      "submission_client": "navidrome",
      "submission_client_version": "0.58.5 (131c0c56)",
      "tracknumber": 51
    },
    "artist_name": "西木康智",
    "release_name": "OCTOPATH TRAVELER Original Soundtrack",
    "track_name": "ボスバトル2",
    "mbid_mapping": {
      "recording_mbid": "f0438d99-9ecd-4ef3-ae1b-253fc5d81869",
      "release_mbid": "ea640f54-a168-414e-8875-7bfcbf2518cb",
      "artist_mbids": [
        "181c4177-f33a-441d-b15d-910acaf18b07"
      ],
      "caa_id": 23758992519,
      "caa_release_mbid": "ea640f54-a168-414e-8875-7bfcbf2518cb",
      "artists": [
        {
          "artist_credit_name": "西木康智",
          "join_phrase": "",
          "artist_mbid": "181c4177-f33a-441d-b15d-910acaf18b07"
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

The payload submitted by navidrome contains the release_name and tracknumber. And I expected it to be perfectly matched to 9edf73af-727b-4041-81cc-595ba17a40c8 but ListenBrainz instead matches it to ea640f54-a168-414e-8875-7bfcbf2518cb. This release doesn’t even have 51 tracks.

This only happens for some of the tracks. When I listen to the entire Album of 85 tracks most are matched correctly while a few are matched to one of two different releases. Most likely because only a subset of the tracks appears on other releases.

I know I could add the MusicBrainz release id to the metadata but I don’t believe that should be necessary when artist, title, release and track number uniquely identify the correct track and release. I would understand if it ended up on one of the other releases in the group but not a totally different release.

What’s the issue here and how, other than adding a tag with the release id, do I fix it?

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When I scrobble a track (e.g., Pentagram - Powerstage) and manually set the album to the live version (e.g., ‘1987’), ListenBrainz still maps it to the studio recording from the ‘Pentagram’ album. This happens both with the Last.fm importer AND with direct scrobbling from Web Scrobbler. It shows the wrong album cover but the correct album text.

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Please see

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That’s great to hear, thank you!.

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I’m having this issue where it seems like several songs, including DESTINY from Yakuza 6 link to Rain from Virtua Fighter 4 instead, and I can’t change that in bulk and it seems very flawed. Even last.fm has full and easy editing even if it is paid.