beets crashes with UnicodeEncodeError

[sneak]

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Problem

Running this command in verbose (-vv) mode:

$ beet -vv -l ./library -d ./music.clean/ import -q ./Music

Led to this problem:

[snip]
Sending event: import_task_created
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Sending event: albuminfo_received
Sending event: albuminfo_received
Sending event: albuminfo_received
Sending event: albuminfo_received
Sending event: albuminfo_received
Evaluating 5 candidates.
Candidate: Frank Bretschneider - Looping I-VI (And Other Assorted Love Songs)
Success. Distance: 0.74
Candidate: Frank Bretschneider - Curve
Success. Distance: 0.69
Candidate: Frank Bretschneider - Rand
Success. Distance: 0.81
Candidate: Frank Bretschneider - Kippschwingungen
Success. Distance: 0.74
Candidate: Frank Bretschneider - Super.Trigger
Success. Distance: 0.74
Sending event: import_task_start

/Volumes/ext/Music/Frank Bretschneider
/Volumes/ext/Music/Frank Bretschneider/Various Artists - Clicks & Cuts 3 (disc 1) (1 items)
Looking up: /Volumes/ext/Music/Impact Unit/Tenshin EP [Silent Steps]
Skipping.
Tagging Impact Unit - Tenshin EP [Silent Steps]
Sending event: import_task_choice
No album IDs found.
Search terms: Impact Unit - Tenshin EP [Silent Steps]
Album might be VA: False
Sending event: albuminfo_received
Sending event: albuminfo_received
Sending event: albuminfo_received
Sending event: albuminfo_received
Sending event: albuminfo_received
Evaluating 5 candidates.
Candidate: Deep Impact - The Good EP
Success. Distance: 0.62
Candidate: Critical Impact - The Leap of Faith EP
Success. Distance: 0.81
Candidate: Bypass Unit - Tunnel Flotation EP
Success. Distance: 0.70
Candidate: Unit 731 - The First Strike EP
Success. Distance: 0.76
Candidate: Unit Park - Digital Mobile Funk EP
Success. Distance: 0.83
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/jp/Library/Python/2.7/bin/beet", line 9, in <module>
    load_entry_point('beets==1.3.17', 'console_scripts', 'beet')()
  File "/Users/jp/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages/beets/ui/__init__.py", line 1236, in main
    _raw_main(args)
  File "/Users/jp/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages/beets/ui/__init__.py", line 1226, in _raw_main
    subcommand.func(lib, suboptions, subargs)
  File "/Users/jp/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages/beets/ui/commands.py", line 966, in import_func
    import_files(lib, paths, query)
  File "/Users/jp/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages/beets/ui/commands.py", line 943, in import_files
    session.run()
  File "/Users/jp/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages/beets/importer.py", line 321, in run
    pl.run_parallel(QUEUE_SIZE)
  File "/Users/jp/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages/beets/util/pipeline.py", line 252, in run
    msg = self.coro.next()
  File "/Users/jp/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages/beets/importer.py", line 1203, in read_tasks
    for t in task_factory.tasks():
  File "/Users/jp/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages/beets/importer.py", line 1048, in tasks
    tasks = self._create(self.album(paths, dirs))
  File "/Users/jp/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages/beets/importer.py", line 1127, in album
    items = map(self.read_item, paths)
  File "/Users/jp/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages/beets/importer.py", line 1177, in read_item
    return library.Item.from_path(path)
  File "/Users/jp/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages/beets/library.py", line 505, in from_path
    i.read(path)
  File "/Users/jp/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages/beets/library.py", line 562, in read
    value = getattr(mediafile, key)
  File "/Users/jp/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages/beets/mediafile.py", line 1082, in __get__
    out = style.get(mediafile.mgfile)
  File "/Users/jp/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages/beets/mediafile.py", line 555, in get
    return _sc_decode(data)[self.index]
  File "/Users/jp/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages/beets/mediafile.py", line 220, in _sc_decode
    soundcheck = soundcheck.replace(b' ', b'').decode('hex')
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/encodings/hex_codec.py", line 42, in hex_decode
    output = binascii.a2b_hex(input)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 59-61: ordinal not in range(128)

Here's a link to the music files that trigger the bug (if relevant):

Setup

• OS: OSX 10.11.3
• Python version: 2.7.10
• beets version: 1.3.17
• Turning off plugins made problem go away (yes/no): didn't test

My configuration (output of beet config) is:

import:
    move: yes
    write: yes
    incremental: yes
    log: ~/Library/Logs/beetimport.txt
quiet_fallback: skip

[sampsyo]

Thanks for the report! I've just pushed a fix. Can you check whether that solves the problem for you?

[sneak]

Tagging 䴀愀爀猀洀漀戀椀氀 - 䴀甀渀椀挀栀 䰀漀瘀攀猀 夀漀甀
No album IDs found.
Skipping.

Works a charm now. Thank you! 😃