diff --git a/src/haunt_fm/services/embedding.py b/src/haunt_fm/services/embedding.py
index 842e0ce..570b5a4 100644
--- a/src/haunt_fm/services/embedding.py
+++ b/src/haunt_fm/services/embedding.py
@@ -42,9 +42,14 @@ def embed_audio(audio: np.ndarray, sample_rate: int = 48000) -> np.ndarray:
 
     inputs = _processor(audio=audio, sampling_rate=sample_rate, return_tensors="pt")
     with torch.no_grad():
-        embeddings = _model.get_audio_features(**inputs)
+        output = _model.get_audio_features(**inputs)
 
-    # Flatten to 1-D and normalize
-    emb = embeddings[0].numpy().flatten()
+    # transformers 5.x returns BaseModelOutputWithPooling; extract pooler_output
+    if hasattr(output, "pooler_output"):
+        emb = output.pooler_output[0].numpy()
+    else:
+        emb = output[0].numpy()
+
+    # Normalize to unit vector
     emb = emb / np.linalg.norm(emb)
     return emb