diff --git a/examples/qwen2-audio/qwen2.cpp b/examples/qwen2-audio/qwen2.cpp
index a42b85bdc..ad6a199c7 100644
--- a/examples/qwen2-audio/qwen2.cpp
+++ b/examples/qwen2-audio/qwen2.cpp
@@ -763,6 +763,7 @@ static bool omni_eval_audio_embed(llama_context *ctx_llama, ggml_tensor *audio_e
         }
         *n_past += n_eval;
     }
+    free(audio_embed_data);
     return true;
 }