diff --git a/openlp/plugins/songs/lib/importers/presentationmanager.py b/openlp/plugins/songs/lib/importers/presentationmanager.py
index eb60f16e1..c913fd232 100644
--- a/openlp/plugins/songs/lib/importers/presentationmanager.py
+++ b/openlp/plugins/songs/lib/importers/presentationmanager.py
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ Presentationmanager song files into the current database.
 """
 
 import os
+import chardet
 from lxml import objectify, etree
 
 from openlp.core.ui.wizard import WizardStrings
@@ -42,7 +43,13 @@ class PresentationManagerImport(SongImport):
             if self.stop_import_flag:
                 return
             self.import_wizard.increment_progress_bar(WizardStrings.ImportingType % os.path.basename(file_path))
-            tree = etree.parse(file_path, parser=etree.XMLParser(recover=True))
+            try:
+                tree = etree.parse(file_path, parser=etree.XMLParser(recover=True))
+            except etree.XMLSyntaxError:
+                # Try to detect encoding and use it
+                file = open(file_path, mode='rb')
+                encoding = chardet.detect(file)['encoding']
+                tree = etree.parse(file_path, parser=etree.XMLParser(recover=True, encoding=encoding))
             root = objectify.fromstring(etree.tostring(tree))
             self.process_song(root)
 
diff --git a/tests/functional/openlp_plugins/songs/test_presentationmanagerimport.py b/tests/functional/openlp_plugins/songs/test_presentationmanagerimport.py
index c351f7ed3..585aa34c5 100644
--- a/tests/functional/openlp_plugins/songs/test_presentationmanagerimport.py
+++ b/tests/functional/openlp_plugins/songs/test_presentationmanagerimport.py
@@ -42,9 +42,9 @@ class TestPresentationManagerFileImport(SongImportTestHelper):
         """
         Test that loading a PresentationManager file works correctly
         """
-        #self.file_import([os.path.join(TEST_PATH, 'Great Is Thy Faithfulness.sng')],
-        #                 self.load_external_result_data(os.path.join(TEST_PATH, 'Great Is Thy Faithfulness.json')))
-        #self.file_import([os.path.join(TEST_PATH, 'Agnus Dei.sng')],
-        #                 self.load_external_result_data(os.path.join(TEST_PATH, 'Agnus Dei.json')))
+        self.file_import([os.path.join(TEST_PATH, 'Great Is Thy Faithfulness.sng')],
+                         self.load_external_result_data(os.path.join(TEST_PATH, 'Great Is Thy Faithfulness.json')))
+        self.file_import([os.path.join(TEST_PATH, 'Agnus Dei.sng')],
+                         self.load_external_result_data(os.path.join(TEST_PATH, 'Agnus Dei.json')))
         self.file_import([os.path.join(TEST_PATH, 'Amazing Grace.sng')],
                          self.load_external_result_data(os.path.join(TEST_PATH, 'Amazing Grace.json')))