diff --git a/kubernetes/apps/navidrome/beets.yaml b/kubernetes/apps/navidrome/beets.yaml
index e33fe06e..eb2d0054 100644
--- a/kubernetes/apps/navidrome/beets.yaml
+++ b/kubernetes/apps/navidrome/beets.yaml
@@ -6,13 +6,12 @@
 # 5-album spot check), so beets now writes tags. Art plugins stay off: they
 # would add or embed cover files, a separate change.
 #
-# Retry trial: the write run matched 74 of 560 albums. 486 were skipped: most
-# folders hold only part of an album, and beets caps a match with missing
-# tracks below "strong", so quiet mode skipped them, and incremental import
-# never looked at them again. This trial retries them with a partial-album
-# match allowed, but imports with -W (no tag write) and skips `beet write`,
-# so no file changes until the new matches are checked. The 74 written albums
-# are re-matched too; the run lists any whose release changed.
+# Retry: the first write run matched 74 of 560 albums; most skipped folders
+# hold only part of an album. Partial-album matches are allowed now (see
+# max_rec). A -W trial matched 158 albums, all at 96% or better, and none of
+# the 74 written albums changed release, so beets now writes them. Muse "Black
+# Holes and Revelations" matched an instrumental release: it is ignored and
+# dropped from the DB (DB only, no file change).
 #
 # Lidarr does not write tags: lidarr-reconcile sets writeAudioTags "no" on
 # every pod start (lidarr.yaml), so it cannot undo the beets tags.
@@ -42,6 +41,9 @@ data:
     library: /config/library.db
     statefile: /config/state.pickle
     plugins: [musicbrainz, fetchart, embedart, lastgenre]
+    # Beets defaults plus folders whose only match is a wrong release.
+    ignore: ['.*', '*~', 'System Volume Information', 'lost+found',
+             'Black Holes and Revelations']
     # Keep the first-release date in year; reissues must not change it.
     original_date: yes
     match:
@@ -95,27 +97,39 @@ data:
       rm -f /config/state.pickle
       touch /config/.retry-ren350
     fi
+    # One-time: the trial stored an instrumental release for this album.
+    # `rm` without -d drops the DB entry only; the file is not touched.
+    if [ ! -f /config/.drop-ren350 ]; then
+      beet rm -a -f 'path:/music/Muse/Black Holes and Revelations'
+      touch /config/.drop-ren350
+    fi
     beet ls -a -f '$path $mb_albumid' | sort > /config/logs/albums-before.txt
     LOG=/config/logs/import-$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M).log
-    # Trial: -W stores matches in the DB but writes no file.
-    beet import -W -l "$LOG" /music
+    beet import -l "$LOG" /music
     rc=$?
     beet ls -a -f '$path $mb_albumid' | sort > /config/logs/albums-after.txt
     comm -23 /config/logs/albums-before.txt /config/logs/albums-after.txt \
       > /config/logs/albums-changed.txt
     echo "== import exit $rc"
-    echo "== written albums with a changed release: $(wc -l < /config/logs/albums-changed.txt)"
+    echo "== albums with a changed release: $(wc -l < /config/logs/albums-changed.txt)"
     cat /config/logs/albums-changed.txt
     echo "== albums in library: $(beet ls -a | wc -l)"
     echo "== skipped this run: $(grep -c '^skip ' "$LOG")"
     echo "== duplicates skipped: $(grep -c '^duplicate-skip ' "$LOG")"
-    # Trial: preview only. `beet write` comes back once the matches are checked.
+    # The trial (-W) stored matches in the DB only; `beet write` puts them
+    # into the files (tags only, no move).
     beet write -p > /config/logs/write-preview.txt 2>&1
     echo "== items to write: $(grep -vc '^ ' /config/logs/write-preview.txt)"
+    beet write
+    wrc=$?
+    echo "== write exit $wrc"
+    beet write -p > /config/logs/write-after.txt 2>&1
+    echo "== items still differing after write: $(grep -vc '^ ' /config/logs/write-after.txt)"
     echo "== skipped albums"
     grep '^skip ' "$LOG"
-    echo "== changes the write would make (first 2000 lines)"
+    echo "== written changes (first 2000 lines)"
     head -n 2000 /config/logs/write-preview.txt
+    [ "$rc" -eq 0 ] && rc=$wrc
     exit $rc
 ---
 apiVersion: batch/v1
@@ -171,10 +185,9 @@ spec:
                 - name: beets-config
                   mountPath: /etc/beets
                   readOnly: true
-                # Read-only for the retry trial; writable again with `beet write`.
+                # Writable for tag writes; move/copy/delete stay off above.
                 - name: music
                   mountPath: /music
-                  readOnly: true
               resources:
                 requests:
                   cpu: 100m