diff --git a/main-basop.yml b/main-basop.yml
index 22efc4503c9301c57d685954fa2e4b3cebd12dc7..e51058c3949de1d06b50bb93adceac9ae43d07a7 100644
--- a/main-basop.yml
+++ b/main-basop.yml
@@ -1453,7 +1453,14 @@ codec-smoke-test:
     - ret_val=0
     - if cat smoke_test_output.txt | grep -c "failed"; then echo "Smoke test without JBM failed"; ret_val=1; fi
     - if cat smoke_test_output_jbm.txt | grep -c "failed"; then echo "Smoke test JBM part failed"; ret_val=1; fi
-    - if cat smoke_test_output_hrtf.txt | grep -c "failed"; then echo "Smoke test with external hrtf files failed"; ret_val=1; fi
+    - if cat smoke_test_output_hrtf.txt | grep -c "failed"; then
+    -   if [ "$DISABLE_HRTF" = "false" ]; then
+    -     echo "Smoke test with external hrtf files failed"
+    -     ret_val=1
+    -   else
+    -     echo "Smoke test with external hrtf files failed, but DISABLE_HRTF is set. Ignoring failure."
+    -   fi
+    - fi
     - exit $ret_val
   artifacts:
     name: "mr-$CI_MERGE_REQUEST_IID--sha-$CI_COMMIT_SHORT_SHA--job-$CI_JOB_NAME--results"