needed_tags = {'Artist', 'Album', 'AlbumArtist', 'Title', 'Track'}
     needed_mbid_tags = {'MUSICBRAINZ_ARTISTID', 'MUSICBRAINZ_ALBUMID',
                         'MUSICBRAINZ_ALBUMARTISTID', 'MUSICBRAINZ_TRACKID'}
+    MPD_supported_tags = {'Artist', 'ArtistSort', 'Album', 'AlbumSort', 'AlbumArtist',
+                          'AlbumArtistSort', 'Title', 'Track', 'Name', 'Genre',
+                          'Date', 'OriginalDate', 'Composer', 'Performer',
+                          'Conductor', 'Work', 'Grouping', 'Disc', 'Label',
+                          'MUSICBRAINZ_ARTISTID', 'MUSICBRAINZ_ALBUMID',
+                          'MUSICBRAINZ_ALBUMARTISTID', 'MUSICBRAINZ_TRACKID',
+                          'MUSICBRAINZ_RELEASETRACKID', 'MUSICBRAINZ_WORKID'}
     database = None
 
     def __init__(self, daemon):
 
         super().__init__(daemon)
         self.daemon = daemon
         self._control_conf()
-        self._setup_tagsneeded()
         self.mpd_filter = forge_filter(self.plugin_conf)
+        self._setup_tagsneeded()
         self.log.debug('mpd filter: %s', self.mpd_filter)
 
     def _control_conf(self):
             raise PluginException('plugin misconfiguration')
 
     def _setup_tagsneeded(self):
-        config_tags = {k for k, v in self.plugin_conf.items() if v}
-        self.log.debug('%s plugin needs the followinng metadata: %s',
-                       self, config_tags & Tags.supported_tags)
+        """Ensure needed tags are exposed by MPD"""
+        # At this point mpd_filter concatenetes {tags}+filter
+        config_tags = set()
+        for mpd_supp_tags in self.player.MPD_supported_tags:
+            if mpd_supp_tags.lower() in self.mpd_filter.lower():
+                config_tags.add(mpd_supp_tags.lower())
+        self.log.debug('%s plugin needs the following metadata: %s',
+                       self, config_tags)
         tags = config_tags & Tags.supported_tags
         self.player.needed_tags |= tags