diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index c988ac320..26ecdc4e9 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 ver 0.19.13 (not yet released)
+* tags
+  - aiff, riff: fix ID3 chunk padding
 
 ver 0.19.12 (2015/12/15)
 * fix assertion failure on malformed UTF-8 tag
diff --git a/src/tag/Aiff.cxx b/src/tag/Aiff.cxx
index c2498c9e9..3c0d138d7 100644
--- a/src/tag/Aiff.cxx
+++ b/src/tag/Aiff.cxx
@@ -84,14 +84,14 @@ aiff_seek_id3(FILE *file)
 			   underflow when casting to off_t */
 			return 0;
 
-		if (size % 2 != 0)
-			/* pad byte */
-			++size;
-
 		if (memcmp(chunk.id, "ID3 ", 4) == 0)
 			/* found it! */
 			return size;
 
+		if (size % 2 != 0)
+			/* pad byte */
+			++size;
+
 		if (fseek(file, size, SEEK_CUR) != 0)
 			return 0;
 	}
diff --git a/src/tag/Riff.cxx b/src/tag/Riff.cxx
index c630f082d..19bc3b817 100644
--- a/src/tag/Riff.cxx
+++ b/src/tag/Riff.cxx
@@ -82,15 +82,15 @@ riff_seek_id3(FILE *file)
 			   underflow when casting to off_t */
 			return 0;
 
-		if (size % 2 != 0)
-			/* pad byte */
-			++size;
-
 		if (memcmp(chunk.id, "id3 ", 4) == 0 ||
 		    memcmp(chunk.id, "ID3 ", 4) == 0)
 			/* found it! */
 			return size;
 
+		if (size % 2 != 0)
+			/* pad byte */
+			++size;
+
 		if (fseek(file, size, SEEK_CUR) != 0)
 			return 0;
 	}