diff --git a/libavformat/id3v2.c b/libavformat/id3v2.c
index 98f8f9e94d..2cab5ac304 100644
--- a/libavformat/id3v2.c
+++ b/libavformat/id3v2.c
@@ -788,8 +788,10 @@ void ff_id3v2_read(AVFormatContext *s, const char *magic, ID3v2ExtraMeta **extra
         /* save the current offset in case there's nothing to read/skip */
         off = avio_tell(s->pb);
         ret = avio_read(s->pb, buf, ID3v2_HEADER_SIZE);
-        if (ret != ID3v2_HEADER_SIZE)
+        if (ret != ID3v2_HEADER_SIZE) {
+            avio_seek(s->pb, off, SEEK_SET);
             break;
+        }
         found_header = ff_id3v2_match(buf, magic);
         if (found_header) {
             /* parse ID3v2 header */