diff --git a/openlp/plugins/songs/lib/cclifileimport.py b/openlp/plugins/songs/lib/cclifileimport.py
index 3d08584d0..28c487a78 100644
--- a/openlp/plugins/songs/lib/cclifileimport.py
+++ b/openlp/plugins/songs/lib/cclifileimport.py
@@ -78,7 +78,20 @@ class CCLIFileImport(SongImport):
                     details = chardet.detect(detect_content)
                 detect_file.close()
                 infile = codecs.open(filename, u'r', details['encoding'])
-                lines = infile.readlines()
+                try:
+                    lines = infile.readlines()
+                    infile.close()
+                except UnicodeDecodeError:
+                    # First 2kB were not sufficient to detect file encoding.
+                    # This time we read entire file.
+                    detect_file = open(filename, u'r')
+                    detect_content = detect_file.read()
+                    details = chardet.detect(detect_content)
+                    detect_file.close()
+                    # We read the contents again. Should it be a try as well?
+                    infile = codecs.open(filename, u'r', details['encoding'])
+                    lines = infile.readlines()
+                    infile.close()
                 ext = os.path.splitext(filename)[1]
                 if ext.lower() == u'.usr':
                     log.info(u'SongSelect .usr format file found %s: ',