diff --git a/libavformat/id3v2.c b/libavformat/id3v2.c
index 2c7b6a59b8..dae4aeb7c9 100644
--- a/libavformat/id3v2.c
+++ b/libavformat/id3v2.c
@@ -362,7 +362,6 @@ static void read_uslt(AVFormatContext *s, AVIOContext *pb, int taglen,
     uint8_t *text = NULL;
     char *key = NULL;
     int encoding;
-    unsigned genre;
     int ok = 0;
 
     if (taglen < 1)