diff --git a/front/src/components/library/Albums.vue b/front/src/components/library/Albums.vue
index 9ba9af3fe..4560ff56d 100644
--- a/front/src/components/library/Albums.vue
+++ b/front/src/components/library/Albums.vue
@@ -48,8 +48,9 @@ const props = withDefaults(defineProps<Props>(), {
 
 const page = usePage()
 
-const tags = useRouteQuery<string[]>('tag', [])
-const tagList = useTags().model(tags.value)
+const tags = useRouteQuery<string[]>('tag', [], { transform: (param: string | string[] | null) => (param === null ? [] : Array.isArray(param) ? param : [param]).filter(p => p.trim() !== '') })
+
+const tagList = useTags(tags)
 
 const q = useRouteQuery('query', '')
 const query = ref(q.value ?? '')
@@ -152,6 +153,7 @@ const paginateOptions = computed(() => sortedUniq([12, 30, 50, paginateBy.value]
         autofocus
         :placeholder="labels.searchPlaceholder"
       />
+      {{ tagList }}
       <Pills
         v-model="tagList"
         :label="t('components.library.Albums.label.tags')"
diff --git a/front/src/ui/composables/useTags.ts b/front/src/ui/composables/useTags.ts
index ce1c4a31b..b593ea6b6 100644
--- a/front/src/ui/composables/useTags.ts
+++ b/front/src/ui/composables/useTags.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import type { paths } from '~/generated/types.ts'
 
-import { computed, ref } from 'vue'
+import { computed, ref, type Ref } from 'vue'
 import { useStore } from '~/store'
 import axios from 'axios'
 
@@ -8,19 +8,15 @@ type Item = { type: 'custom' | 'preset', label: string }
 type Model = { currents: Item[], others?: Item[] }
 
 /**
- * Load and cache all tags
+ * Load and cache all tags.
+ * - Two-way binding with store (any change to the store will be reflected in `others`)
+ * - Two-way binding with ref
+ * @param currents Selected tags
+ * @returns an object with `currents` and `others`, ready to be used inside
  */
-export const useTags = <T> () => {
+export const useTags = (currents: Ref<string[], string[]>) => {
   const store = useStore()
 
-  // Two-way bind with store
-  const tags = computed({
-    get: () => store.state.ui.tags || [],
-    set: function(value) {
-      store.commit('ui/tags', value)
-    }
-  })
-
   // Ignore quick successive fetch triggers
   const ignorePeriod = 500
 
@@ -30,11 +26,13 @@ export const useTags = <T> () => {
   // Wait after changing a tag before re-fetching
   const refetchInterval = 6000
 
+  // Number of tags to load on one page
   const maxTags = 100000
 
   const lastFetched = ref<number>(0)
 
   const fetch = async () => {
+    // console.log('FETCH TAGS')
     // Ignore subsequent fetch commands triggered in quick succession
     if (lastFetched.value + ignorePeriod > Date.now())
       return
@@ -50,40 +48,48 @@ export const useTags = <T> () => {
       { params: { page: 1, page_size: maxTags } }
     )
 
-    tags.value = response.data.results
+    // console.log('TAGS RESPONSE.data.results', response.data.results)
+    store.commit('ui/tags', response.data.results)
   }
 
-  return ({
-    /**
-     * @param currents Initial selected tags
-     * @returns v-model for `Pills` component
-     */
-    model: (currents: string[] = []) => {
-      fetch();
-      return computed({
+  fetch();
 
-        // Get currents initially from parameter. Get others from backend.
-        get: (): Model => ({
-          currents: currents.map(tag => ({
-            label: tag,
-            type: tags.value.some(({ name }) => tag === name) ? 'preset' : 'custom'
-          })),
-          others: tags.value
-            .filter(({ name }) => !currents.includes(name))
-            .map(({ name }) => ({
-              label: name,
-              type: 'preset'
-            }))
-        }),
+  /**
+   * @returns v-model for `Pills` component
+   */
+  return computed({
+    get () {
+      // console.log("GET TAGS")
+      return ({
+      // Get `currents` from parameter
+      currents: currents.value.map(tag => ({
+        label: tag,
+        type: (store.state.ui.tags || []).some(({ name }) => tag === name) ? 'preset' : 'custom'
+      } as const)),
 
-        // Re-fetch after each new setting
-        set: function (_) {
-          window.setTimeout(fetch, refetchInterval)
-          // TODO: Broadcast new custom tags so that other pills components can use them
-        }
-    })
+      // Get `others` from cache
+      others: (store.state.ui.tags || [])
+        .filter(({ name }) => !currents.value.includes(name))
+        .map(({ name }) => ({
+          label: name,
+          type: 'preset'
+        } as const))
+    })},
+
+    set (model) {
+      // console.log('SET TAGS', response.data.results)
+
+      // Set parameter `currents` from `model.currents`
+      currents.value = model.currents.map(({ label }) => label)
+
+      // Set runtime-only options from `model.others` and `model.current`
+      // TODO: Broadcast new custom tags so that other pills components can use them
+
+      // Re-fetch after each new setting
+      window.setTimeout(fetch, refetchInterval)
     }
-  })
+})
 }
 
 // alternative ways to generate tags
+// ...