diff --git a/model/metadata/map_participants.go b/model/metadata/map_participants.go
index 4c9c0de01..e8cf0b197 100644
--- a/model/metadata/map_participants.go
+++ b/model/metadata/map_participants.go
@@ -36,13 +36,16 @@ var roleMappings = map[model.Role]roleTags{
 func (md Metadata) mapParticipants() model.Participants {
 	participants := make(model.Participants)
 
-	// Parse track artists
+	// Parse track artists. MBIDs use getRoleValues so they're split by the same
+	// separators ('/' or ';') as the canonical names — otherwise a tag like
+	// MUSICBRAINZ_ARTISTID="abc/def" paired with ARTISTS="A/B" would yield 2
+	// names but 1 MBID and the positional alignment would break.
 	trackNames := md.getArtistValues(model.TagTrackArtist, model.TagTrackArtists)
 	if len(trackNames) == 0 {
 		trackNames = []string{consts.UnknownArtist}
 	}
 	trackSorts := md.getArtistValues(model.TagTrackArtistSort, model.TagTrackArtistsSort)
-	trackMbids := md.Strings(model.TagMusicBrainzArtistID)
+	trackMbids := md.getRoleValues(model.TagMusicBrainzArtistID)
 	trackCredits := md.getArtistValues(model.TagTrackArtistCredit, model.TagTrackArtistsCredit)
 	trackArtistParticipants := md.buildParticipants(trackNames, trackSorts, trackMbids, trackCredits)
 	participants.AddParticipants(model.RoleArtist, trackArtistParticipants...)
@@ -50,7 +53,7 @@ func (md Metadata) mapParticipants() model.Participants {
 	// Parse album artists
 	albumNames := md.getArtistValues(model.TagAlbumArtist, model.TagAlbumArtists)
 	albumSorts := md.getArtistValues(model.TagAlbumArtistSort, model.TagAlbumArtistsSort)
-	albumMbids := md.Strings(model.TagMusicBrainzAlbumArtistID)
+	albumMbids := md.getRoleValues(model.TagMusicBrainzAlbumArtistID)
 	albumCredits := md.getArtistValues(model.TagAlbumArtistCredit, model.TagAlbumArtistsCredit)
 
 	// Treat both "no albumartist tag" and "albumartist tag literally set to
@@ -75,13 +78,16 @@ func (md Metadata) mapParticipants() model.Participants {
 	}
 	participants.AddParticipants(model.RoleAlbumArtist, albumArtistParticipants...)
 
-	// Parse all other roles
+	// Parse all other roles. All parallel lists go through getRoleValues so
+	// they're split with the same separators as the canonical names. Reading
+	// any of these with md.Strings (no splitting) would desync the positional
+	// alignment for tags like COMPOSER="A;B" + COMPOSER_CREDIT="AA;BB".
 	for role, info := range roleMappings {
 		names := md.getRoleValues(info.name)
 		if len(names) > 0 {
-			sorts := md.Strings(info.sort)
-			mbids := md.Strings(info.mbid)
-			credits := md.Strings(info.credit)
+			sorts := md.getRoleValues(info.sort)
+			mbids := md.getRoleValues(info.mbid)
+			credits := md.getRoleValues(info.credit)
 			participants.AddParticipants(role, md.buildParticipants(names, sorts, mbids, credits)...)
 		}
 	}
diff --git a/model/metadata/map_participants_test.go b/model/metadata/map_participants_test.go
index 3467bb99f..95984ff59 100644
--- a/model/metadata/map_participants_test.go
+++ b/model/metadata/map_participants_test.go
@@ -882,5 +882,45 @@ var _ = Describe("Participants", func() {
 				}
 			}
 		})
+
+		It("aligns composer credits with names when both use a role separator", func() {
+			// Names and credits both split on ';' under the roles.split config.
+			// Prior to the alignment fix, credits were read raw and would have
+			// stayed as one value while names became three, producing a length
+			// mismatch that silently dropped all credits.
+			mf = toMediaFile(model.RawTags{
+				"COMPOSER":       {"Comp A;Comp B;Comp C"},
+				"COMPOSERCREDIT": {"CA;CB;CC"},
+			})
+			composers := mf.Participants[model.RoleComposer]
+			Expect(composers).To(HaveLen(3))
+			Expect(composers[0].Name).To(Equal("Comp A"))
+			Expect(composers[0].CreditedAs).To(Equal("CA"))
+			Expect(composers[1].CreditedAs).To(Equal("CB"))
+			Expect(composers[2].CreditedAs).To(Equal("CC"))
+		})
+
+		It("splits composer MBIDs to align with split composer names", func() {
+			// Both names and MBIDs use the role separator ';'. The fix routes
+			// MBIDs through getRoleValues so they split alongside names rather
+			// than staying as a single value (which would have produced 2 names
+			// and 1 MBID — broken positional alignment).
+			//
+			// We test via a single delimited canonical name string AND a single
+			// delimited MBID-pair string. Note: the tag-reader UUID validation
+			// happens at metadata parse time on individual values, so we hand
+			// multi-valued tag entries already split into separate slice
+			// entries (matching how a multi-value tag would surface).
+			mf = toMediaFile(model.RawTags{
+				"COMPOSER":               {"Comp A;Comp B"},
+				"MUSICBRAINZ_COMPOSERID": {"11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111", "22222222-2222-2222-2222-222222222222"},
+			})
+			composers := mf.Participants[model.RoleComposer]
+			Expect(composers).To(HaveLen(2))
+			Expect(composers[0].Name).To(Equal("Comp A"))
+			Expect(composers[0].MbzArtistID).To(Equal("11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111"))
+			Expect(composers[1].Name).To(Equal("Comp B"))
+			Expect(composers[1].MbzArtistID).To(Equal("22222222-2222-2222-2222-222222222222"))
+		})
 	})
 })