diff --git a/lib/poparser/comment.rb b/lib/poparser/comment.rb
index e4ebf23..94aae3c 100644
--- a/lib/poparser/comment.rb
+++ b/lib/poparser/comment.rb
@@ -5,13 +5,16 @@ class Comment
     def initialize(type, value)
       @type = type
       @value  = value
+
+      if @type.to_s =~ /^previous_/ # these behave more like messages
+        remove_empty_line
+      end
     end
 
     def to_s(with_label = false)
       return to_str unless with_label
       if @value.is_a? Array
         if @type.to_s =~ /^previous_/ # these behave more like messages
-          remove_empty_line
           string = ["#{COMMENTS_LABELS[@type]} \"\"\n"]
           @value.each do |str|
             string << "#| \"#{str}\"\n".gsub(/[\p{Blank}]+$/, '')
diff --git a/lib/poparser/entry.rb b/lib/poparser/entry.rb
index f34cf00..c81fec5 100644
--- a/lib/poparser/entry.rb
+++ b/lib/poparser/entry.rb
@@ -23,6 +23,13 @@ def initialize(args = {})
       # alias for backward compatibility of this typo
       self.class.send(:alias_method, :refrence, :reference)
       self.class.send(:alias_method, :refrence=, :reference=)
+      if self.obsolete?
+        obsolete_content = SimplePoParser.parse_message(obsolete.value.join("\n").gsub(/^\|/, "#|"))
+        obsolete_content.each do |name, value|
+          raise(ArgumentError, "Unknown label #{name}") if !valid_label? name
+          set_instance_variable(name, value)
+        end
+      end
     end
 
     # If entry doesn't have any msgid, it's probably a obsolete entry that is
diff --git a/lib/poparser/po.rb b/lib/poparser/po.rb
index 452ad20..52b3e44 100644
--- a/lib/poparser/po.rb
+++ b/lib/poparser/po.rb
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ def obsolete
         entry.obsolete?
       end
     end
-    alias_method :obsolete, :obsolete
+    alias_method :cached, :obsolete
 
     # Count of all entries without counting obsolete entries
     #
diff --git a/spec/poparser/entry_spec.rb b/spec/poparser/entry_spec.rb
index 00bf956..75c1d05 100644
--- a/spec/poparser/entry_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/poparser/entry_spec.rb
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@
   context 'obsolete' do
     before do
       @entry = PoParser::Entry.new
-      @entry.obsolete = '#~ msgid "a obsolete entry"'
+      @entry.obsolete = ['#~ msgid "a obsolete entry"', '#~ msgstr ""']
       @entry.flag = 'Fuzzy'
     end
 
@@ -130,5 +130,21 @@
     it 'shouldn\'t mark it as fuzzy' do
       expect(@entry.fuzzy?).to be_falsy
     end
+
+    it 'should further parse the obsolete content' do
+      path = Pathname.new('spec/poparser/fixtures/complex_obsolete.po').realpath
+      @po = PoParser::Tokenizer.new.extract_entries(path)
+      obsolete_entry = @po.obsolete.first
+      expect(obsolete_entry.obsolete?).to be_truthy
+      expect(obsolete_entry.msgctxt.value).to eq('Context')
+      expect(obsolete_entry.msgid.value).to eq('msgid')
+      expect(obsolete_entry.msgid_plural.value).to eq(['multiline msgid_plural\n', ''])
+      expect(obsolete_entry.previous_msgctxt.value).to eq('previous context')
+      expect(obsolete_entry.previous_msgid.value).to eq(
+        ['multiline\n', 'previous messageid']
+      )
+      expect(obsolete_entry.previous_msgid_plural.value).to eq('previous msgid_plural')
+    end
+
   end
 end
diff --git a/spec/poparser/fixtures/complex_obsolete.po b/spec/poparser/fixtures/complex_obsolete.po
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d8afa58
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spec/poparser/fixtures/complex_obsolete.po
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+# translator-comment
+#
+#. extract
+#: reference1
+#: reference2
+#, flag
+#~| msgctxt "previous context"
+#~| msgid ""
+#~| "multiline\n"
+#~| "previous messageid"
+#~| msgid_plural "previous msgid_plural"
+#~ msgctxt "Context"
+#~ msgid "msgid"
+#~ msgid_plural ""
+#~ "multiline msgid_plural\n"
+#~ ""
+#~ msgstr[0] "msgstr 0"
+#~ msgstr[1] ""
+#~ "msgstr 1 multiline 1\n"
+#~ "msgstr 1 line 2\n"
+#~ msgstr[2] "msgstr 2"
diff --git a/spec/poparser/po_spec.rb b/spec/poparser/po_spec.rb
index 0fa97e7..15d7ddc 100644
--- a/spec/poparser/po_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/poparser/po_spec.rb
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
 
   it 'returns all obsolete strings' do
     entry2, entry3 = entry.dup, entry.dup
-    [entry2, entry3].each { |en| en[:obsolete] = 'test' }
+    [entry2, entry3].each { |en| en[:obsolete] = ['msgid "test"', 'msgstr "test"'] }
     @po << [entry, entry2, entry3]
     expect(@po.obsolete.size).to eq 2
   end
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@
 
   it 'shouldn\'t count obsolete entries' do
     @po << entry
-    obsolete = { obsolete: 'sth', flag: 'Fuzzy' }
+    obsolete = { obsolete: ['msgid "sth"', 'msgstr "sth"'], flag: 'Fuzzy' }
     @po << obsolete
     expect(@po.size).to eq(1)
   end
@@ -124,4 +124,5 @@
         }.to raise_error(RuntimeError, "Duplicate entry, header was already instantiated")
     end
   end
+
 end