Audio metadata/tag display: Everything becomes track 2?

As per https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=143050

Problem running for years, consistent through many VLC versions and several OS (Windows) versions and hardware configurations. Simple playback with preferences OE/reset:

Replaying some metadata-tagged sound files, VLC will replay OK but display always tagged title for track 2 and overwrite all entered titles with it. This is no problem for separate files (i.e. per-track rips) but with single ones cue:d to multiple tracks, you end up with the entire playlist for that file’s tracks changed into the same title repeated throughout.

Cue-sheet: Track 1: Title 1 Track 2: Title 2 Track 3: Title 3 Track 4: Title 4 Track 5: Title 5 Track 6: Title 6 …

Replay start at 1st track displays 2nd track’s tags: ▷ [Track 1]: Title 2 [Track 2]: Title 2 [Track 3]: Title 3 [Track 4]: Title 4 [Track 5]: Title 5 [Track 6]: Title 6 …

Any track when played gets metadata from title 2, so eventually all tracks show metadata from track 2: [Track 1]: Title 2 [Track 2]: Title 2 [Track 3]: Title 2 [Track 4]: Title 2 [Track 5]: Title 2 ▷ [Track 6]: Title 2 …

Dragging a soundfile (wav/flac/ape/ogg/mp3/…) to playlist window, VLC immediately displays metadata for track 2.

This happens only with files tagged with metadata (title, at least), not with every file tagged, but those ‘afflicted’ are so consistently. Stripping the file of metadata does not solve it; de- and recompressing as new file is my only workaround yet.

Seems to me that problem comes from metadata adding scheme at file creation (typically, rip to WAV or compression WAV → FLAC) and/or metadata tag versions conflicting when read by VLC. Suggestions?