diff --git a/src/gui/audioplayer.cpp b/src/gui/audioplayer.cpp
index 4807aeb23..167da68e5 100644
--- a/src/gui/audioplayer.cpp
+++ b/src/gui/audioplayer.cpp
@@ -1055,9 +1055,6 @@ void CAudioPlayerGui::processPlaylistUrl(const char *url, const char *name, cons
 	/* get it! */
 	curl_easy_perform(curl_handle);
 
-	/* cleanup curl stuff */
-	curl_easy_cleanup(curl_handle);
-
 	/*
 	* Now, our chunk.memory points to a memory block that is chunk.size
 	* bytes big and contains the remote file.
@@ -1098,6 +1095,9 @@ void CAudioPlayerGui::processPlaylistUrl(const char *url, const char *name, cons
 		}
 	}
 
+	/* cleanup curl stuff */
+	curl_easy_cleanup(curl_handle);
+
 	if (chunk.memory)
 		free(chunk.memory);