diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 8872c3c1f..d7c6dd630 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 ver 0.15.1 (2009/??/??)
+* dcecoders:
+  - flac: fix assertion failure in tag_free() call
 * output:
   - httpd: include sys/types.h (fixes Mac OS X)
 * commands:
diff --git a/src/decoder/flac_plugin.c b/src/decoder/flac_plugin.c
index 965a8b46b..1d7a9f868 100644
--- a/src/decoder/flac_plugin.c
+++ b/src/decoder/flac_plugin.c
@@ -394,6 +394,7 @@ flac_decode_internal(struct decoder * decoder,
 	if (!(flac_dec = flac_new()))
 		return;
 	flac_data_init(&data, decoder, input_stream);
+	data.tag = tag_new();
 
 #if defined(FLAC_API_VERSION_CURRENT) && FLAC_API_VERSION_CURRENT > 7
         if(!FLAC__stream_decoder_set_metadata_respond(flac_dec, FLAC__METADATA_TYPE_VORBIS_COMMENT))
@@ -422,8 +423,6 @@ flac_decode_internal(struct decoder * decoder,
 		}
 	}
 
-	data.tag = tag_new();
-
 	if (!flac_process_metadata(flac_dec)) {
 		err = "problem reading metadata";
 		goto fail;