diff --git a/libavformat/movenc.c b/libavformat/movenc.c
index f4b8e06cea..b7ad6be375 100644
--- a/libavformat/movenc.c
+++ b/libavformat/movenc.c
@@ -1530,7 +1530,7 @@ static int mov_write_3gp_udta_tag(ByteIOContext *pb, AVFormatContext *s,
         put_be16(pb, language_code("eng")); /* language */
         put_buffer(pb, t->value, strlen(t->value)+1); /* UTF8 string value */
         if (!strcmp(tag, "albm") &&
-            (t = av_metadata_get(s->metadata, "date", NULL, 0)))
+            (t = av_metadata_get(s->metadata, "track", NULL, 0)))
             put_byte(pb, atoi(t->value));
     }
     return updateSize(pb, pos);