diff --git a/classes/PlaylistArchiveStream.php b/classes/PlaylistArchiveStream.php
index 8ee5d14..b050c61 100644
--- a/classes/PlaylistArchiveStream.php
+++ b/classes/PlaylistArchiveStream.php
@@ -208,4 +208,16 @@ class PlaylistArchiveStream extends TarArchive
 
         return fread($this->buffer, $count);
     }
+
+    /**
+     * Called when fclose() is used on the stream.
+     *
+     * @return void
+     */
+    public function stream_close()
+    {
+        if (is_resource($this->buffer)) {
+            fclose($this->buffer);
+        }
+    }
 }
diff --git a/tests/PlaylistArchiveStreamTest.php b/tests/PlaylistArchiveStreamTest.php
index fde76c6..36a49d3 100644
--- a/tests/PlaylistArchiveStreamTest.php
+++ b/tests/PlaylistArchiveStreamTest.php
@@ -34,6 +34,16 @@ class PlaylistArchiveStreamTest extends TestCase
         $this->stream = new PlaylistArchiveStream(Config::getInstance('config/'.$configFile));
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Clean variables used in tests.
+     *
+     * @return void
+     */
+    protected function tearDown()
+    {
+        $this->stream->stream_close();
+    }
+
     /**
      * Test the stream_open() function.
      *