diff --git a/api/funkwhale_api/music/metadata.py b/api/funkwhale_api/music/metadata.py
index 3637b1c8c5d78311dd2e3975cd02bd48d6f9269e..4c17c42c0d51ac9c92501d43ecbf1aab3de0377f 100644
--- a/api/funkwhale_api/music/metadata.py
+++ b/api/funkwhale_api/music/metadata.py
@@ -91,10 +91,23 @@ def convert_track_number(v):
         pass
 
 
+
+class FirstUUIDField(forms.UUIDField):
+    def to_python(self, value):
+        try:
+            # sometimes, Picard leaves to uuids in the field, separated
+            # by a slash
+            value = value.split('/')[0]
+        except (AttributeError, IndexError, TypeError):
+            pass
+
+        return super().to_python(value)
+
+
 VALIDATION = {
-    'musicbrainz_artistid': forms.UUIDField(),
-    'musicbrainz_albumid': forms.UUIDField(),
-    'musicbrainz_recordingid': forms.UUIDField(),
+    'musicbrainz_artistid': FirstUUIDField(),
+    'musicbrainz_albumid': FirstUUIDField(),
+    'musicbrainz_recordingid': FirstUUIDField(),
 }
 
 CONF = {
diff --git a/api/tests/music/test_metadata.py b/api/tests/music/test_metadata.py
index 326f18324bd4ba027d225f28369e42d40e57ee87..a4f15b3355f9e2299e682675fd1622d16ab19353 100644
--- a/api/tests/music/test_metadata.py
+++ b/api/tests/music/test_metadata.py
@@ -95,3 +95,17 @@ def test_can_get_metadata_from_flac_file_not_crash_if_empty():
 
     with pytest.raises(metadata.TagNotFound):
         data.get('test')
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize('field_name', [
+    'musicbrainz_artistid',
+    'musicbrainz_albumid',
+    'musicbrainz_recordingid',
+])
+def test_mbid_clean_keeps_only_first(field_name):
+    u1 = str(uuid.uuid4())
+    u2 = str(uuid.uuid4())
+    field = metadata.VALIDATION[field_name]
+    result = field.to_python('/'.join([u1, u2]))
+
+    assert str(result) == u1
diff --git a/changes/changelog.d/267.bugfix b/changes/changelog.d/267.bugfix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8d0bfa5c5955440e917e184494945fc87a5bfccf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changes/changelog.d/267.bugfix
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Do not crash when tag contains multiple uuids with a / separator (#267)