diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index b3972e557..39aea4111 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 ver 0.22.9 (not yet released)
 * database
   - simple: load all .mpdignore files of all parent directories
+* decoder
+  - ffmpeg: support the "sort_album" tag
 * Windows
   - fix build failure with SQLite
 
diff --git a/src/decoder/plugins/FfmpegMetaData.cxx b/src/decoder/plugins/FfmpegMetaData.cxx
index 316c85481..1c30c467b 100644
--- a/src/decoder/plugins/FfmpegMetaData.cxx
+++ b/src/decoder/plugins/FfmpegMetaData.cxx
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ static constexpr struct tag_table ffmpeg_tags[] = {
 
 	/* from libavformat/mov.c */
 	{ "sort_album_artist", TAG_ALBUM_ARTIST_SORT },
+	{ "sort_album", TAG_ALBUM_SORT },
 	{ "sort_artist", TAG_ARTIST_SORT },
 
 	/* sentinel */