diff --git a/src/de/danoeh/antennapod/syndication/handler/FeedHandler.java b/src/de/danoeh/antennapod/syndication/handler/FeedHandler.java
index 050daf862..9b25d16c4 100644
--- a/src/de/danoeh/antennapod/syndication/handler/FeedHandler.java
+++ b/src/de/danoeh/antennapod/syndication/handler/FeedHandler.java
@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
 package de.danoeh.antennapod.syndication.handler;
 
 import java.io.File;
-import java.io.FileInputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
-import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.Reader;
 
 import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
@@ -28,12 +26,11 @@ public class FeedHandler {
 		factory.setNamespaceAware(true);
 		SAXParser saxParser = factory.newSAXParser();
 		File file = new File(feed.getFile_url());
-		InputStream inputStream = new FileInputStream(file);
 		Reader inputStreamReader = new XmlStreamReader(file);
 		InputSource inputSource = new InputSource(inputStreamReader);
 
 		saxParser.parse(inputSource, handler);
-		inputStream.close();
+		inputStreamReader.close();
 		return handler.state.feed;
 	}
 }
diff --git a/src/de/danoeh/antennapod/syndication/handler/TypeGetter.java b/src/de/danoeh/antennapod/syndication/handler/TypeGetter.java
index 04c8cdd42..d4c61119f 100644
--- a/src/de/danoeh/antennapod/syndication/handler/TypeGetter.java
+++ b/src/de/danoeh/antennapod/syndication/handler/TypeGetter.java
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import java.io.FileReader;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.Reader;
 
+import org.apache.commons.io.input.XmlStreamReader;
 import org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParser;
 import org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParserException;
 import org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParserFactory;
@@ -72,12 +73,15 @@ public class TypeGetter {
 	}
 
 	private Reader createReader(Feed feed) {
-		FileReader reader;
+		Reader reader;
 		try {
-			reader = new FileReader(new File(feed.getFile_url()));
+			reader = new XmlStreamReader(new File(feed.getFile_url()));
 		} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
 			e.printStackTrace();
 			return null;
+		} catch (IOException e) {
+			e.printStackTrace();
+			return null;
 		}
 		return reader;
 	}
diff --git a/tests/src/de/danoeh/antennapod/test/FeedHandlerTest.java b/tests/src/de/danoeh/antennapod/test/FeedHandlerTest.java
index 9bebbc173..94dfaa436 100644
--- a/tests/src/de/danoeh/antennapod/test/FeedHandlerTest.java
+++ b/tests/src/de/danoeh/antennapod/test/FeedHandlerTest.java
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ public class FeedHandlerTest extends AndroidTestCase {
 	private static final String FEEDS_DIR = "testfeeds";
 
 	private static final String[] urls = {
+			"http://podcast.homerj.de/podcasts.xml",
 			"http://www.dradio.de/rss/podcast/sendungen/wissenschaftundbildung/",
 			"http://www.dradio.de/rss/podcast/sendungen/wirtschaftundverbraucher/",
 			"http://www.dradio.de/rss/podcast/sendungen/literatur/",