diff --git a/picard/metadata.py b/picard/metadata.py
index 081342baf..c6a02fe55 100644
--- a/picard/metadata.py
+++ b/picard/metadata.py
@@ -373,7 +373,7 @@ class Metadata(MutableMapping):
 
             if 'isvideo' in weights:
                 metadata_is_video = self['~video'] == '1'
-                track_is_video = track.get('video', False)
+                track_is_video = bool(track.get('video'))
                 score = 1 if metadata_is_video == track_is_video else 0
                 parts.append((score, weights['isvideo']))
 
diff --git a/test/data/ws_data/recording_video_null.json b/test/data/ws_data/recording_video_null.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d814cd00e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/data/ws_data/recording_video_null.json
@@ -0,0 +1,106 @@
+{
+    "id": "46b97aca-a524-4993-8ec5-93c736081442",
+    "score": 100,
+    "title": "Lune",
+    "length": 567032,
+    "video": null,
+    "artist-credit": [
+        {
+            "name": "Tim Green",
+            "artist": {
+                "id": "5103b22e-514f-46b1-afdf-c99517c791e2",
+                "name": "Tim Green",
+                "sort-name": "Tim Green",
+                "disambiguation": "UK House artist aka \"TG\", started activity in the 2000s",
+                "aliases": [
+                    {
+                        "sort-name": "TG",
+                        "type-id": "894afba6-2816-3c24-8072-eadb66bd04bc",
+                        "name": "TG",
+                        "locale": null,
+                        "type": "Artist name",
+                        "primary": null,
+                        "begin-date": null,
+                        "end-date": null
+                    },
+                    {
+                        "sort-name": "T.G",
+                        "type-id": "894afba6-2816-3c24-8072-eadb66bd04bc",
+                        "name": "T.G",
+                        "locale": null,
+                        "type": "Artist name",
+                        "primary": null,
+                        "begin-date": null,
+                        "end-date": null
+                    },
+                    {
+                        "sort-name": "Tg",
+                        "name": "Tg",
+                        "locale": null,
+                        "type": null,
+                        "primary": null,
+                        "begin-date": null,
+                        "end-date": null
+                    }
+                ]
+            }
+        }
+    ],
+    "first-release-date": "2022-10-28",
+    "releases": [
+        {
+            "id": "af96cd94-f759-4f9f-8c63-75404d4853dc",
+            "status-id": "4e304316-386d-3409-af2e-78857eec5cfe",
+            "count": 1,
+            "title": "Eastbound Silhouette",
+            "status": "Official",
+            "artist-credit": [
+                {
+                    "name": "Tim Green",
+                    "artist": {
+                        "id": "5103b22e-514f-46b1-afdf-c99517c791e2",
+                        "name": "Tim Green",
+                        "sort-name": "Tim Green",
+                        "disambiguation": "UK House artist aka \"TG\", started activity in the 2000s"
+                    }
+                }
+            ],
+            "release-group": {
+                "id": "275f2ad4-a506-4ab1-8ae2-ff7f203cbf6b",
+                "title": "Eastbound Silhouette"
+            },
+            "date": "2022-10-28",
+            "country": "XW",
+            "release-events": [
+                {
+                    "date": "2022-10-28",
+                    "area": {
+                        "id": "525d4e18-3d00-31b9-a58b-a146a916de8f",
+                        "name": "[Worldwide]",
+                        "sort-name": "[Worldwide]",
+                        "iso-3166-1-codes": [
+                            "XW"
+                        ]
+                    }
+                }
+            ],
+            "track-count": 6,
+            "media": [
+                {
+                    "position": 1,
+                    "format": "Digital Media",
+                    "track": [
+                        {
+                            "id": "2d321de5-c84e-4b39-85d1-f375b1af1f7c",
+                            "number": "4",
+                            "title": "Lune",
+                            "length": 567032
+                        }
+                    ],
+                    "track-count": 6,
+                    "track-offset": 3
+                }
+            ]
+        }
+    ]
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/test/test_metadata.py b/test/test_metadata.py
index ff9901d84..1e589dd73 100644
--- a/test/test_metadata.py
+++ b/test/test_metadata.py
@@ -671,6 +671,18 @@ class CommonTests:
                 match = track.metadata.compare_to_track(track_json, File.comparison_weights)
                 self.assertEqual(sim, match.similarity)
 
+        def test_compare_to_track_is_video(self):
+            recording = load_test_json('recording_video_null.json')
+            m = Metadata()
+            match = m.compare_to_track(recording, {'isvideo': 1})
+            self.assertEqual(1.0, match.similarity)
+            m['~video'] = '1'
+            match = m.compare_to_track(recording, {'isvideo': 1})
+            self.assertEqual(0.0, match.similarity)
+            recording['video'] = True
+            match = m.compare_to_track(recording, {'isvideo': 1})
+            self.assertEqual(1.0, match.similarity)
+
 
 class MetadataTest(CommonTests.CommonMetadataTestCase):
     @staticmethod