diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 3f1fbb269..cf886eda4 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ ver 0.18.6 (not yet released)
 * output
   - openal: fix build failure on Mac OS X
   - osx: fix build failure
+* accept files without metadata
 
 ver 0.18.5 (2013/11/23)
 * configuration
diff --git a/src/SongUpdate.cxx b/src/SongUpdate.cxx
index a34734227..1a873fedc 100644
--- a/src/SongUpdate.cxx
+++ b/src/SongUpdate.cxx
@@ -95,8 +95,7 @@ Song::UpdateFile()
 
 	TagBuilder tag_builder;
 	if (!tag_file_scan(path_fs,
-			   &full_tag_handler, &tag_builder) ||
-	    !tag_builder.IsDefined())
+			   &full_tag_handler, &tag_builder))
 		return false;
 
 	if (tag_builder.IsEmpty())