diff --git a/tests/core/test_import_manifest_data.py b/tests/core/test_import_manifest_data.py
index beb91232..b529218b 100644
--- a/tests/core/test_import_manifest_data.py
+++ b/tests/core/test_import_manifest_data.py
@@ -87,6 +87,12 @@ def test_export_without_manifest_url_still_rebuilds_dash_manifest_data(tmp_path:
     assert set(tracks.videos[0].data.get("dash", {})) >= {"manifest", "adaptation_set", "representation"}
 
 
+def test_exported_track_its_manifest_no_longer_lists_is_dropped(tmp_path: Path) -> None:
+    """A track that matches no representation would get no manifest data and fail only at download."""
+    service = make_service(tmp_path, None, {"v-hevc": exported_video("v-hevc", AVC_URL, "HEVC", 3840, 2160)})
+    assert service.get_tracks(next(iter(service.get_titles()))).videos == []
+
+
 def test_exported_hevc_on_its_own_mpd_survives_the_reparse(tmp_path: Path) -> None:
     """A ladder split across per-codec MPDs loses every codec but manifest_url's if only URL tracks merge back."""
     service = make_service(
diff --git a/tests/core/test_import_tracks.py b/tests/core/test_import_tracks.py
index 2fbc0b93..794ebc52 100644
--- a/tests/core/test_import_tracks.py
+++ b/tests/core/test_import_tracks.py
@@ -54,19 +54,20 @@ URL_SUBTITLE = {
 }
 
 
-def make_service(tmp_path: Path, language: Optional[str], tracks: Optional[dict[str, Any]] = None) -> ImportService:
-    export = {
-        "version": 2,
-        "service": "EXAMPLE",
-        "titles": {
-            "movie-1": {
-                "meta": {"type": "movie", "id": "movie-1", "name": "Example Movie", "year": 2024, "language": language},
-                "manifest_url": "https://example.invalid/m.mpd",
-                "manifest_type": "DASH",
-                "tracks": tracks or {},
-            }
-        },
+def make_service(
+    tmp_path: Path,
+    language: Optional[str],
+    tracks: Optional[dict[str, Any]] = None,
+    manifest_url: Optional[str] = "https://example.invalid/m.mpd",
+) -> ImportService:
+    entry: dict[str, Any] = {
+        "meta": {"type": "movie", "id": "movie-1", "name": "Example Movie", "year": 2024, "language": language},
+        "manifest_type": "DASH",
+        "tracks": tracks or {},
     }
+    if manifest_url:
+        entry["manifest_url"] = manifest_url
+    export = {"version": 2, "service": "EXAMPLE", "titles": {"movie-1": entry}}
     path = tmp_path / "export.json"
     path.write_text(json.dumps(export), encoding="utf8")
     return ImportService(click.Context(click.Command("dl")), "EXAMPLE", "movie-1", str(path))
@@ -95,6 +96,35 @@ def test_unlabelled_manifest_without_usable_language_blames_the_service(
     assert "may have expired" not in error.value.message
 
 
+def exported_video(language: str = "ja") -> dict[str, Any]:
+    return {
+        "type": "Video",
+        "id": "v1",
+        "url": "https://example.invalid/m.mpd",
+        "language": language,
+        "descriptor": "DASH",
+        "codec": "AVC",
+        "bitrate": 5000000,
+        "width": 1920,
+        "height": 1080,
+    }
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("manifest_url", ["https://example.invalid/m.mpd", None], ids=["manifest-url", "per-track-url"])
+def test_unlabelled_manifest_takes_the_exported_track_language(tmp_path: Path, manifest_url: Optional[str]) -> None:
+    """A title with no language takes it from its exported tracks, for either import branch."""
+    service = make_service(tmp_path, language=None, tracks={"v1": exported_video()}, manifest_url=manifest_url)
+    tracks = get_tracks(service, MPD_NO_LANG)
+    assert [(str(t.language), t.data.get("dash") is not None) for t in tracks.videos] == [("ja", True)]
+
+
+def test_original_language_track_gives_the_title_language(tmp_path: Path) -> None:
+    """The exporter marks the original-language tracks, which beat a video of another language."""
+    audio = {"type": "Audio", "id": "a1", "language": "de", "is_original_lang": True}
+    service = make_service(tmp_path, language=None, tracks={"v1": exported_video("en"), "a1": audio})
+    assert str(next(iter(service.get_titles())).language) == "de"
+
+
 def test_exported_url_subtitles_replace_the_manifests(tmp_path: Path) -> None:
     """Services drop the manifest's subtitles and side-load their own; importing both duplicates them."""
     tracks = get_tracks(make_service(tmp_path, "ja", {"sideloaded-en": URL_SUBTITLE}), MPD_WITH_LANG)
diff --git a/unshackle/core/import_service.py b/unshackle/core/import_service.py
index eb879111..cca33e68 100644
--- a/unshackle/core/import_service.py
+++ b/unshackle/core/import_service.py
@@ -102,7 +102,8 @@ def resolve_import_manifest_data(
     Exports can be without ``manifest_url`` (for example, when the service never set
     ``title.tracks.manifest_url``) or carry one MPD per adaptation set. ``Track.from_dict``
     does not serialise manifest XML, so each exported track's ``url`` is re-fetched and
-    matched to a locally parsed representation before download.
+    matched to a locally parsed representation before download. A track that matches none is
+    dropped with a warning, since without its manifest data it fails only when it downloads.
     """
     if manifest_type not in MANIFEST_DATA_KEYS:
         return
@@ -143,6 +144,13 @@ def resolve_import_manifest_data(
             if matched and matched.data.get(data_key):
                 track.data.update(matched.data)
 
+    unmatched = {str(track.id) for track in pending if not track.data.get(data_key)}
+    for track_id in unmatched:
+        log.warning(f"Skipping exported track {track_id}: its {manifest_type} manifest no longer lists it")
+    tracks.select_video(lambda t: str(t.id) not in unmatched)
+    tracks.select_audio(lambda t: str(t.id) not in unmatched)
+    tracks.select_subtitles(lambda t: str(t.id) not in unmatched)
+
 
 def parse_codec(codec: type[E], parse: Callable[[str], E], value: Any) -> Optional[E]:
     """The codec a row names by enum name (``hevc``) or as ``parse`` reads it, else None."""
@@ -316,7 +324,7 @@ class ImportService:
         if self.titles is not None:
             return self.titles
         titles_list = [
-            build_title(entry.get("meta", {}), self.service_tag, fallback_id=title_id)
+            build_title(self.title_meta(entry), self.service_tag, fallback_id=title_id)
             for title_id, entry in self.titles_data.items()
         ]
         self.titles = (
@@ -324,6 +332,23 @@ class ImportService:
         )
         return self.titles
 
+    @staticmethod
+    def title_meta(entry: dict[str, Any]) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        """The title meta, with the language of an exported track when the title has none.
+
+        A service can set no title language yet label its tracks. The manifest re-parse and
+        ``-l orig`` need a title language, so an original-language track gives it, else a video.
+        """
+        meta = entry.get("meta") or {}
+        if fallback_language(meta.get("language")):
+            return meta
+        source = min(
+            (d for d in (entry.get("tracks") or {}).values() if fallback_language(d.get("language"))),
+            key=lambda d: (not d.get("is_original_lang"), d.get("type") != "Video"),
+            default=None,
+        )
+        return {**meta, "language": source["language"]} if source else meta
+
     def get_titles_cached(self, title_id: Optional[str] = None) -> Titles_T:
         """Apply the service's title_map to titles reconstructed from the export sidecar."""
         title_map = (config.services.get(self.service_tag) or {}).get("title_map") or {}