diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 67b94eaea..c544808f1 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ ver 0.21 (not yet released)
 * player
   - "one-shot" single mode
 * input
+  - curl: download to buffer instead of throttling transfer
   - qobuz: new plugin to play Qobuz streams
   - tidal: new plugin to play Tidal streams
 * tags
diff --git a/src/input/plugins/CurlInputPlugin.cxx b/src/input/plugins/CurlInputPlugin.cxx
index 1cca33aa6..f808a5c21 100644
--- a/src/input/plugins/CurlInputPlugin.cxx
+++ b/src/input/plugins/CurlInputPlugin.cxx
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 #include "lib/curl/Request.hxx"
 #include "lib/curl/Handler.hxx"
 #include "lib/curl/Slist.hxx"
+#include "../MaybeBufferedInputStream.hxx"
 #include "../AsyncInputStream.hxx"
 #include "../IcyInputStream.hxx"
 #include "IcyMetaDataParser.hxx"
@@ -458,7 +459,7 @@ CurlInputStream::Open(const char *url,
 			c->StartRequest();
 		});
 
-	return std::make_unique<IcyInputStream>(std::move(c), std::move(icy));
+	return std::make_unique<MaybeBufferedInputStream>(std::make_unique<IcyInputStream>(std::move(c), std::move(icy)));
 }
 
 InputStreamPtr