diff --git a/airtime_mvc/application/models/airtime/Podcast.php b/airtime_mvc/application/models/airtime/Podcast.php
index 4b6b609fa..471edfc25 100644
--- a/airtime_mvc/application/models/airtime/Podcast.php
+++ b/airtime_mvc/application/models/airtime/Podcast.php
@@ -57,9 +57,26 @@ class Podcast extends BasePodcast
 
         // Kind of a pain; since the rss fields are SimpleXMLElements,
         // we need to explicitly cast them to strings
-        $podcastArray["title"] = (string)$rss->title;
-        $podcastArray["creator"] = (string)$rss->author;
+        $podcastArray["title"] = $rss->get_title();
+        $podcastArray["description"] = $rss->get_description();
+        $podcastArray["link"] = $rss->get_link();
+        $podcastArray["language"] = $rss->get_language();
+        $podcastArray["copyright"] = $rss->get_copyright();
+        $podcastArray["author"] = $rss->get_author();
+        $podcastArray["category"] = $rss->get_categories();
+
+        /*$podcastArray["title"] = (string)$rss->title;
         $podcastArray["description"] = (string)$rss->description;
+        $podcastArray["link"] = (string)$rss->link;
+        $podcastArray["language"] = (string)$rss->language;
+        $podcastArray["copyright"] = (string)$rss->copyright;
+        $podcastArray["itunes_author"] = (string)$rss->{'itunes:author'};
+        $podcastArray["itunes_keywords"] = (string)$rss->{'itunes:keywords'};
+        $podcastArray["itunes_subtitle"] = (string)$rss->{'itunes:subtitle'};
+        $podcastArray["itunes_summary"] = (string)$rss->{'itunes:summary'};
+        //TODO: fix itunes_category
+        $podcastArray["itunes_category"] = (string)$rss->{'itunes:category'};
+        $podcastArray["itunes_explicit"] = (string)$rss->{'itunes:explicit'};*/
         self::validatePodcastMetadata($podcastArray);
 
         try {
diff --git a/airtime_mvc/application/services/PodcastService.php b/airtime_mvc/application/services/PodcastService.php
index 6764b5c08..62eeb6885 100644
--- a/airtime_mvc/application/services/PodcastService.php
+++ b/airtime_mvc/application/services/PodcastService.php
@@ -51,7 +51,11 @@ class Application_Service_PodcastService extends Application_Service_ThirdPartyC
     public static function getPodcastFeed($podcastUrl)
     {
         try {
-            return Feed::loadRss($podcastUrl);
+            $feed = new SimplePie();
+            $feed->set_feed_url($podcastUrl);
+            $feed->set_cache_location($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/rss/cache_files');
+            $feed->init();
+            return $feed;
         } catch (FeedException $e) {
             return false;
         }
@@ -61,7 +65,6 @@ class Application_Service_PodcastService extends Application_Service_ThirdPartyC
     {
 
     }
-
     /**
      * Given an array of track identifiers, download RSS feed tracks
      *
diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index a78a27b32..ab4370351 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -5,6 +5,6 @@
         "raven/raven": "0.12.0",
         "ise/php-soundcloud": "3.0.1",
         "massivescale/celery-php": "2.0.*@dev",
-        "dg/rss-php": "1.2"
+        "simplepie/simplepie": "dev-master"
     }
 }
diff --git a/composer.lock b/composer.lock
index 1f6ebbb0f..5b61be35b 100644
--- a/composer.lock
+++ b/composer.lock
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 {
     "_readme": [
         "This file locks the dependencies of your project to a known state",
-        "Read more about it at https://getcomposer.org/doc/01-basic-usage.md#composer-lock-the-lock-file",
+        "Read more about it at http://getcomposer.org/doc/01-basic-usage.md#composer-lock-the-lock-file",
         "This file is @generated automatically"
     ],
-    "hash": "26535a03b324113b05e6bd8bbc7f2bcb",
+    "hash": "8d8a51740ad37127ff6618f80861ccfc",
     "packages": [
         {
             "name": "aws/aws-sdk-php",
@@ -73,48 +73,6 @@
             ],
             "time": "2014-12-08 21:56:46"
         },
-        {
-            "name": "dg/rss-php",
-            "version": "v1.2",
-            "source": {
-                "type": "git",
-                "url": "https://github.com/dg/rss-php.git",
-                "reference": "b33661748d89d8c0c288e8d86feada6018d05031"
-            },
-            "dist": {
-                "type": "zip",
-                "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/dg/rss-php/zipball/b33661748d89d8c0c288e8d86feada6018d05031",
-                "reference": "b33661748d89d8c0c288e8d86feada6018d05031",
-                "shasum": ""
-            },
-            "require": {
-                "php": ">=5.2.2"
-            },
-            "type": "library",
-            "autoload": {
-                "classmap": [
-                    "src/"
-                ]
-            },
-            "notification-url": "https://packagist.org/downloads/",
-            "license": [
-                "BSD-3-Clause"
-            ],
-            "authors": [
-                {
-                    "name": "David Grudl",
-                    "homepage": "http://davidgrudl.com"
-                }
-            ],
-            "description": "RSS & Atom Feeds for PHP is a very small and easy-to-use library for consuming an RSS and Atom feed",
-            "homepage": "https://github.com/dg/rss-php",
-            "keywords": [
-                "atom",
-                "feed",
-                "rss"
-            ],
-            "time": "2015-07-02 11:54:05"
-        },
         {
             "name": "guzzle/guzzle",
             "version": "v3.9.3",
@@ -273,7 +231,7 @@
                 "shasum": ""
             },
             "require": {
-                "predis/predis": ">=0.8.5",
+                "predis/predis": "0.8.5",
                 "videlalvaro/php-amqplib": ">=2.4.0"
             },
             "type": "library",
@@ -567,6 +525,60 @@
             ],
             "time": "2015-05-19 20:20:08"
         },
+        {
+            "name": "simplepie/simplepie",
+            "version": "dev-master",
+            "source": {
+                "type": "git",
+                "url": "https://github.com/simplepie/simplepie.git",
+                "reference": "6102a15d768c7d81fe48f7e2f1d8cf9e71e5959f"
+            },
+            "dist": {
+                "type": "zip",
+                "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/simplepie/simplepie/zipball/6102a15d768c7d81fe48f7e2f1d8cf9e71e5959f",
+                "reference": "6102a15d768c7d81fe48f7e2f1d8cf9e71e5959f",
+                "shasum": ""
+            },
+            "require": {
+                "php": ">=5.2.0"
+            },
+            "type": "library",
+            "autoload": {
+                "psr-0": {
+                    "SimplePie": "library"
+                }
+            },
+            "notification-url": "https://packagist.org/downloads/",
+            "license": [
+                "BSD-3-Clause"
+            ],
+            "authors": [
+                {
+                    "name": "Ryan Parman",
+                    "homepage": "http://ryanparman.com/",
+                    "role": "Creator, alumnus developer"
+                },
+                {
+                    "name": "Geoffrey Sneddon",
+                    "homepage": "http://gsnedders.com/",
+                    "role": "Alumnus developer"
+                },
+                {
+                    "name": "Ryan McCue",
+                    "email": "me@ryanmccue.info",
+                    "homepage": "http://ryanmccue.info/",
+                    "role": "Developer"
+                }
+            ],
+            "description": "A simple Atom/RSS parsing library for PHP",
+            "homepage": "http://simplepie.org/",
+            "keywords": [
+                "atom",
+                "feeds",
+                "rss"
+            ],
+            "time": "2015-09-02 01:14:05"
+        },
         {
             "name": "symfony/event-dispatcher",
             "version": "v2.7.4",
@@ -627,16 +639,16 @@
         },
         {
             "name": "videlalvaro/php-amqplib",
-            "version": "v2.5.2",
+            "version": "v2.6.0",
             "source": {
                 "type": "git",
                 "url": "https://github.com/videlalvaro/php-amqplib.git",
-                "reference": "eb8f94d97c8e79900accf77343dbd7eca7f58506"
+                "reference": "8a6e89ad46130eb365b7f57d313f2a795f5e3269"
             },
             "dist": {
                 "type": "zip",
-                "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/videlalvaro/php-amqplib/zipball/eb8f94d97c8e79900accf77343dbd7eca7f58506",
-                "reference": "eb8f94d97c8e79900accf77343dbd7eca7f58506",
+                "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/videlalvaro/php-amqplib/zipball/8a6e89ad46130eb365b7f57d313f2a795f5e3269",
+                "reference": "8a6e89ad46130eb365b7f57d313f2a795f5e3269",
                 "shasum": ""
             },
             "require": {
@@ -677,17 +689,17 @@
                 "queue",
                 "rabbitmq"
             ],
-            "time": "2015-08-11 12:30:09"
+            "time": "2015-09-23 02:25:31"
         }
     ],
     "packages-dev": [],
     "aliases": [],
     "minimum-stability": "stable",
     "stability-flags": {
-        "massivescale/celery-php": 20
+        "massivescale/celery-php": 20,
+        "simplepie/simplepie": 20
     },
     "prefer-stable": false,
-    "prefer-lowest": false,
     "platform": [],
     "platform-dev": []
 }