diff --git a/ldm/data/laion.py b/ldm/data/laion.py
index f23ebb1..588549e 100644
--- a/ldm/data/laion.py
+++ b/ldm/data/laion.py
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ class WebDataModuleFromConfig(pl.LightningDataModule):
                 tars,
                 nodesplitter=nodesplitter,
                 shardshuffle=shardshuffle,
-                handler=wds.warn_and_continue).shuffle(shuffle)
+                handler=wds.warn_and_continue).repeat().shuffle(shuffle)
         print(f'Loading webdataset with {len(dset.pipeline[0].urls)} shards.')
 
         dset = (dset