diff --git a/HISTORY.rst b/HISTORY.rst
index 03c9575..2d6bbc0 100644
--- a/HISTORY.rst
+++ b/HISTORY.rst
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 Changelog
 ---------
 
+0.2.1
+^^^^^
+**release date:** 2016-02-28
+* Adding guess encoding back without python-magic dependency.
+
 0.2
 ^^^^^
 **release date:** 2016-02-27
diff --git a/cleanit/__init__.py b/cleanit/__init__.py
index e377e77..870394b 100644
--- a/cleanit/__init__.py
+++ b/cleanit/__init__.py
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 __title__ = 'cleanit'
 __author__ = 'Rato'
-__version__ = '0.2'
+__version__ = '0.2.1'
diff --git a/cleanit/subtitle.py b/cleanit/subtitle.py
index 09d5898..144e088 100644
--- a/cleanit/subtitle.py
+++ b/cleanit/subtitle.py
@@ -1,16 +1,16 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 import logging
-import pysrt
 
+import chardet
+import pysrt
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 
 class Subtitle(object):
-
     def __init__(self, path, encoding=None):
         self.path = path
-        self.encoding = encoding
+        self.encoding = encoding if encoding else self.guess_encoding(path)
         self.subtitle = None
 
     def __repr__(self):
@@ -22,6 +22,33 @@ def load(self):
     def save(self, path=None, encoding=None):
         self.subtitle.save(path=path if path else self.path, encoding=encoding if encoding else self.encoding)
 
+    def guess_encoding(self, path):
+        # always try utf-8 first
+        encodings = ['utf-8', 'latin-1', 'windows-1251', 'windows-1250', 'iso-8859-9', 'windows-1254', 'windows-1255',
+                     'windows-1256', 'shift-jis', 'gb18030', 'big5']
+
+        # try to decode
+        logger.debug('Trying encodings %r', encodings)
+
+        with open(path, 'r') as f:
+            content = f.read()
+            for encoding in encodings:
+                try:
+                    content.decode(encoding)
+                except UnicodeDecodeError:
+                    pass
+                else:
+                    logger.info('Guessed encoding %s', encoding)
+                    return encoding
+
+            logger.warning('Could not guess encoding from language')
+
+            # fallback on chardet
+            encoding = chardet.detect(content)['encoding']
+            logger.info('Chardet found encoding %s', encoding)
+
+        return encoding
+
     def clean(self, rules, clean_indexes=True):
         self.load()
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index fb01261..a3f1fcc 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -27,7 +27,8 @@ def run_tests(self):
         sys.exit(errno)
 
 # requirements
-install_requirements = ['appdirs>=1.4.0', 'click>=4.0', 'jsonschema>=2.5.1', 'pysrt>=1.0.1', 'pyyaml>=3.11']
+install_requirements = ['appdirs>=1.4.0', 'chardet>=2.3.0', 'click>=4.0', 'jsonschema>=2.5.1', 'pysrt>=1.0.1',
+                        'pyyaml>=3.11']
 
 test_requirements = ['pytest', 'pytest-pep8', 'pytest-flakes', 'pytest-cov']